CLUB (MAY/JUNE ISSUE)

Hi and welcome to CLUB!
In this issue we provide an “A to Z” guide to the London Olympic Games, as well as comparing the 2012 Olympics to those of 1948.
We also check out pop star Ed Sheeran, report on the teenage brain, interview a teen from New Zealand and catch up with a Mary Glasgow designer!

メアリ・グラスゴー・マガジンズは日本ではなかなか得られないグローバルな最新情報が満載！
レベルに合わせて読みやすく、分かりやすく記事がかかれています。
雑誌には読んだ記事に関するクイズや文法問題などがついていてインタラクティブな作りになっています。
さらにウェブサイトにも記事関連の問題（ONLINE ACTIVITY）があり、またTV(VIDEO) ACTIVITYやEXTRAでより深く学習する事ができます。　

LANGUAGE FOCUS
Grammar: should vs shouldn’t have + past participle
Vocabulary: sports vocabulary, travel vocabulary, expressing success and ambition
Functions: extended writing (‘A to Z’), creative writing, discussing topics, giving your opinions

PAGES 2 & 3
CLUB NEWS
Three specially selected news stories
① National citizen service for British teens
CD: Listen to teens discussing national citizen service

② 60 Years of Queen Elizabeth II !
CD: Listen to a quiz about British teens’ favourite monarchs

CLUB EXTRA: VOTE:
The next King of England …
Who do you think should be the next King of England?
Do you care? Why / why not?
Vote now! Then writing a comment telling us why you voted the way you did.

③ Nigeria’s plastic bottle house

PAGES 4 & 5
IN THE HEADLINES
The A to Z of … the Olympic Games
Club provides a comprehensive guide to the “greatest show on earth”.

ONLINE ACTIVITY (The London Olympics Facts and Figures)
CD; Teens talk about the Olympics
CLUB EXTRA: WEB CHAT(write a comment)
Is your country competing in the 2012 Olympics?
Who are your best athletes?
Are any of them “going for gold”?

PAGES 6 & 7
OUR WORLD (Inside the TEEN BRAIN)
Club looks at the science behind the behavior of the teenage brain, and asks readers to share their own wishes and regrets.

ONLINE ACTIVITY: (You shouldn’t do that.)
CLUB TV (Video): We talk to teens about growing up.
The teen brain / video activity 1 & 2

PAGES 8 & 9
GLOBAL TEENS (New Zealand teen)
Francesca Silver talks to CLUB about her passion for horse riding.

ONLINE ACTIVITIES (1. Travel, 2. New Zealand)
CLUB EXTRA: WEB CHAT (Write a comment)
Tell us about your summer holiday plans!
Where will you go, how will you get there and what will you do?

PAGES 10 & 11
SPOTLIGHT ON…
Ed Sheeran: Britain’s unlikely pop star
CLUB chats with new pop star Ed Sheeran and asks how he has achieved his success.

ONLINE ACTIVITY: (Britain’s unlikely pop star)
CLUB EXTRA: WATCH IT
Visit our website (EXTRA) to watch and Watch and listen to The A Team – as well as two songs by Ed’s influences – Nizlopi and Damien Rice. And tell us your comments.
1. What adjectives would you use to describe each song?
2. Which song is your favourite? Why?
3. Do you dislike any of these songs? Why?

PAGES 12 & 13
THEN AND NOW
The London Olympics
Club compares the 2012 Olympics with those of 1948, which were held while Britain was still recovering from the Second World War.

ONLINE ACTIVITY: (THEN AND NOW)
PAGE 14
SO YOU WANT TO BE A…
Designer
An interview with Mary Glasgow designer Eddie Rego!

PAGE 15
THE HOTLIST
The best in entertainment for May and June!
British sandwich week, snow White, Euro 2012

CLUB EXTRA: the hotlist – Review of the Year
What were your top three favourite items of the year? Why?
Where there any items you didn’t like?
Share your opinions by telling us your favourite hotlist items now!

PAGE 16
THE IMAGE
London’s tallest building the Shard
This summer a new building has been completed in London that will be the tallest in the European Union