Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Vocabulary station 1 tower block Hochhaus whimsical schrullig, launenhaft to evaporate [ ç}vép‹reçt ] verdunsten, sich in Luft auflösen velvet Samt tendril Ranke, hier: Locke to beget sb. jmdn. zeugen to squat [ skwüt ] hocken stool Schemel, Hocker to worship [ }wä:Sçp ] sb. jmdn. verehren to steel oneself seinen Mut zusammennehmen dock Anklagebank unruffled ruhig indifferent gleichgültig to go awry [ ‹}raç ] Even the best laid plans can go awry. schiefgehen 4 criterion [ kraç}tç‹ri‹n ], pl. criteria Kriterium, Kennzeichen mediocre [ ]mi:di}‹ïk‹ ] mittelmässig to thrill erregen, Spannung erzeugen 6 loose lose, hier: offen 7 to glitter glitzern to glance A rose-tinted sun glanced over the hills. hier: glänzen worthy [ }wä:Di ] würdig salubrious gesund seedy heruntergekommen Amis, Martin: The Information (Flamingo 1996) Block, Lawrence: The Burglar on the Prowl (No Exit Press 1999) Boxall, Peter (ed.): 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated 2008) Burt, Daniel S.: The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (Checkmark 2010) Dorris, Michael/Buchwald Emily (eds.): The Most Wonderful Books. (Milkweed Editions 1997) Dunning, John: The Bookwoman’s Last Fling (Scribner 2006) Gekoski, Rick: Tolkien’s Gown & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books (Constable 2004) Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow (Harvill 2006) Pearl, Nancy: Book Lust – More Book Lust – Book Lust To Go (Sasquatch Books 2003 – 2005 – 2010) Seierstad, Åsne: The Bookseller of Kabul (Virago 2004) Smiley, Jane: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (faber&faber 2006) Truss, Lynn: Tennyson’s Gift (Profile Books 2004) Vandever, Jennifer: The Brontë Project (Pocket Books 2006) Reading tips 18 to marvel at sth./sb. They marvelled at the gigantic size of the new building. über etw./jmdn. staunen 10 hitch The apartment is so cheap, I'm sure there must be a hitch. Problem, Haken bei der Sache to tear [ te‹ ] (sth.) off: to move (or do sth.) very quickly and carelessly etw. abreißen, hier: davonrasen grass verge Grünstreifen, Straßenrand breakdown truck Abschleppwagen 17 to mutter murmeln incoherent [ ]çnk‹ï}hç‹r‹nt ] unzusammen- hängend to pick at sth. an etw. zupfen to be acclaimed as sth. Ignaz Semmelweis was acclaimed as ‘Saviour of Mothers’ for reducing deaths from childbed fever. als etw. gefeiert werden 16 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv