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ENW 436 Introduction
This week’s ENW podcast, the first after our long break,
reports on a poignant story from the on-going COVID 19
Pandemic. Popular mapping software such as Google Maps andApple Maps have helped some people around the world copewith the death of loved ones. How so? How could a mapping
app help the bereaved?

Listen to English News Weekly Podcast to find out!

HOMEPAGE(c) Jaime Selwood

ANDENW Episode 219

SOCIAL MEDIATECHNOLOGYContents Pages
Part 1|Warm UpsOdd-One-Out
Brainstorm
Famous Streets
Quiz | This Week

Page 1Page 1Page 1 / 2
Page 2

Part 2|

Before Listening / Reading

Jumbled Words
True or False
Vocabulary |Synonyms

Part 3|

Page 3
Page 3
Page 3

Listening / Reading

The News Story 418 Words
What Do You Think...?

Part 4|

Page 4
Page 4After Listening / Reading

Q&A
A&Q

Page 5
Page 5

Part 5|Extra Stuff

Extra English I
7 to Chinwag
Writing Activity

Page 6
Page 6
Page 7And Finally….
Did You Know?
TV Links

Page 7
Page 8The Answers

Pages 8-10| A1| A1This symbol = Listening activity in the podcast.

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| PART 1 | Warm-Ups |Odd 1 Out

Warm Up | 1

Look at the four boxes below, which box is different from the other three?
Write your reason in the box underneath. Check your answer later.

a) Googleb) Yahooc) Baidud) BingMy Reason…
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brainstorm

Warm Up | 2

How many different words can you connect to the word(s) in the box?
Can you think of at least 10 words? Why do you think this?

| Relatives |Warm Up |Famous Streets

Read the list of some of the most famous streets in the world on page 2.
Do you recognise them?
Match the names on page 2 with the photographs below!

1:

2:

3:

4:

5:

6:

7:

8:

9:

10:

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Famous Roads Around the World! | Which is Which..?
Read the list of famous street names from around the world and then matchthem with the correct photograph on page 1!

A Águeda Umbrella Street, Portugal G
Abbey Road, England
B
H
C Baldwin Street, New ZealandIBroadway, USA
DJRua do Bom Jesus, Brazil
EKWarm Up | 4Champs Elysée, FranceJinli Street, China
La Ramblas, Spain
Orchid Street, Singapore
ROYAL MILE, EDINBURGH| A1Quiz

Read the questions about this week’s news story.
Remember if you don’t know – use the Internet to help or GUESS!
Q1 Yonge Street is the longest street in the world, but how long is it?
a: 56km b: 96km c: 136km
Q2 Ebenezer Place is the shortest street in the world, how short is it?
a: 2.06m b: 12.06m. c: 120.06m
Q3 Baldwin Street is the steepest in the world, what is the gradient?
a: 25% b: 35% c: 45%
Q4 The oldest street in the world is the Post & Sweet Track, how old is it?
a: 5,800 years b: 3,800 years c: 1,800 years
Q5 What brand of car does Google use to map the world’s roads?
a: Ford b: Mercedes c: Subaru
Q6 How much (in 2021) is Google worth?
a: $300bn b: $600bn c: $900bn
X1

What year was Google founded?

X2

What are the top 3 search engines in the world?

X3

Who are three key founders of Google?

A: LP

B: SB

C: SH

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Jumbled Sentences

The sentence below is from a paragraph in the news story.
Un-jumble the words and put them into the correct order.

familythemedia
imagesmembers
acrosssocialworld2andfromusing
haveofsharebeen
friends

deceasedtoPeople

Comfort from the Past_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pre-Listening / Reading | 2| A2

True or False

Read the headline of News Story – Comfort from the Past
Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1 Street View is produced by Apple Inc.

[T] [F]

2 Stonehenge is in western England.

[T] [F]

3 Long Beach can be found in northern California[T] [F]

4 Northumberland is in north-east England.

[T] [F]

5 The Street View App has seen reduced traffic during COVID-19.

[T] [F]
Synonyms

Pre-Listening / Reading | 3
A synonym is a word with a similar meaning.
Match the 10 words on the left with their synonyms on the right.
All the synonyms in black are from the News Stories.

1Curtailed

6Suburban

A

23Destinations

7

Passed-Away

B Photographed G Unfortunately

Captured

8Sneaked

CSleepingHPersonnel

45Comfort

9SadlyDAbridged

IDied

Employees

10Snoozing

E

Residential

J

Objectives

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FCosiness

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Comfort from the Past

10 Mistakes! | Circle the ErrorsListen / Read the news story and circle the 10 errors below. 2 in each paragraph.
HINT – Write the correct words in the box under the news story!

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193

4

5

Comfort from the Past

With overseas and domestic travel 1: heightened/curtailed/ended by COVID
restrictions across the world, a popular escape for those that cannot jump on aplane or train is to explore the world using various 2: mapping/travel/search apps.
These images have allowed wannabe explorers to visit some of the world’s mostpopular destinations from inside their homes. Google has reported that visitors totheir Street View app has increased hugely over the last 15 months. Some of themost popular places that have seen increased online street traffic include theColosseum in 3: Milan/Naples/Rome, Champs Elysée in Paris, Stonehenge inwestern England, and The Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia.
However, another and perhaps more poignant legacy of mapping apps such as
Google’s Street View or Apple’s Maps is that images of people who are sadly nolonger
alive
havealsobeencaptured.
Ratherthanbringing
4: sadness/grief/happiness to those relatives and friends of people who havepassed away, the ability to see loved one’s images has brought comfort to many,
especially during the COVID Pandemic.
People from across the world have been using social media to share
5: pictures/drawings/images of deceased friends and family members. NeilHenderson who works at the BBC told his employees what it feels like to see hislate father on the Google Street View App, “It is quite affecting, it is like he’s stillaround”, he said. Whilst another user on Twitter shared a screen shot of his parents
walking down a British 6: city/metro/suburban street with the words, “I can goback to 2009 and see my parents walking down the road holding hands. I lostthem both 8 & 6 years ago.”
Perhaps more agonising is those people who have shared images of people whohave passed-away because of COVID-19. A gentleman in 7: Short/Long/WideBeach, southern California shared a photo of his late mother taken just 11 months
ago. She had, her son explained, sneaked outside the front door for a cigaretteand been captured by the 8: Subaru/Mazda/Toyota Impreza that Google uses torecord and map the world’s streets.
If ENW uses Street View to access images of their hometown of Ellington,
Northumberland in north-east 9: Scotland/England/Wales we can see ourmothers’ cat sitting inside the living room window. Sadly, Pooney – my mother’scat, died aged 17 last year but it is quite nice to see her staring at the grass hoping
some wayward bird may land outside on the garden. Which was her favourite
pastime, well aside from snoozing. Let us hope that soon people will once more
be able to travel and visit friends and loved ones in person, rather than via a
10: walking/viewing/mapping app.
437 Words

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Q&A

How much can you remember from News Story?
Read / Listen to the questions below and choose the correct answer.
If you can’t remember any answers, guess!

Q1 What mapping app does Google produce?
Q2 Where is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia?
Q3 Which company produces the Maps mapping app?
Q4 What is the name of the BBC employee?
W
Q5 What brand of cars does Google use for its mapping app?
Q6 What is the name of the cat?
X

How many cities are mentioned in the news story?

Z* What year did Google start?
*A question that you need to research!

Post-Reading | 2A&Q

How much can you remember from the news story?
Read the answers below and write the correct question.
There is more than one possible correct question for each one!

A1

17______________________________________________?

A2Impreza______________________________________________?

A3

BBC

______________________________________________?

A4

Paris

______________________________________________?

A5

Rome

______________________________________________?
END OF PART 4@hiroshima_jaime | English News Weekly #436 The Lost People of Google | TECHNOLOGY6 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2021 | jaimeselwood@gmail.com| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |English Extra IEnglish Idioms that use ‘lost’

These are examples of modern English phrases that use the word ‘lost’.
Match the examples above with their meanings below!
Do you understand what they mean?

1I

2F

3E

4 H

5A

A gooddeed isnever lostAll is not
lostGetlost!

Like alost soul

To loseone’sfooting

6D

7J

8B

9G

10 C

To loseone’s shirt

To loseface

To losesleep

Almost lose
itA lostcause

ABCDE

To slip, or fall
over whilst
movingTo really worry
aboutsomething.

When defeat
isinevitable.

Whensomeone
loses a lot ofmoney,
usually whengambling.

Tellingsomeone togo away!

FGHIJ

There isalways hope,even if thesituation looks
bleak.

To almost lose
control of youremotions andget veryangry.

Someone is asad, lonely
person.

A special orkind act isnever done invain

To worry
about losing
prestige orrespect.

7 to Chinwag

This Week’s ENW Podcast

ENW Podcast Topic | Comfort from the Past
Ask / Answer the questions below on this week’s ENW Podcast Topic!

1
2

What did you think when you read this week’s ENW podcast title? Why?

3How often do you use mapping apps?

What search engine do you use the most? Why?

4 What location would you love to visit today if you could? Why?
5 What kind of apps do you use the most daily? Why?
6 What is the most expensive app you have ever bought? Why?
EXFREE QUESTION!
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WritingThis Week

The COVID-19 Pandemic has restricted travel for most people.
However, if you could plan a vacation right now, where would you go?
Give as many reasons as you can!

END OF PART 5
And Finally… | V/W/X/Y/Z| A4

Did You Know That..?

(T) According to Google usually the most searched for questions relate
to the weather or the time! (U) Perhaps unsurprisingly the word that wasmost searched for on the Google platform in 2020 was…coronavirus!
(V) The second most popular is Microsoft’s Bing with approximately 874
million hits a day. (W) So, currently in Hiroshima it is 13:23 and 17C!
(X) The most popular search engine in the world is Google!
(Y) Completing the top 3 is the Chinese search engine Baidu, witharound 584 million individual searches. (Z) The American tech giant has
around 4.6 billion hits every day!
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Visual | TV Links
Mt Fuji| (JAPAN)
1: https://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/mount-fuji/Travel to Mt Fuji with Google Street View!

[02:17]

YouTube | (USA)
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FZH652qYkA
10 Years of Google Street View

[03:33]

You Tube | (USA)
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTCvr0noy5k
Top 100 Strange Things Caught on YouTube[05:09]Podcast | Key| A1

These activities are audio and can be listened to on the podcast.

Answers | Part 1

Warm Up 1-4

Warm Up 1 | Odd-1-Out
C – Baidu

A / B / D – are all available in multiple
languages, Baidu is only in Chinese.

Warm Up 3 |1: La Ramblas
4: Broadway
7: Baldwin Street

2: Abbey Road
3: Royal Mile
5: Champs Elysée
6: Orchid Road
8: Rua do Bom Jesus 9: Agueda
10: Jinli Street

A1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz
1 – (A) 56km
4 – (A) 5,800 years

E1 – 1998

2 – (B) 2.06m
5 – (C) Subaru

3 – (B) 35%
6 – (C) $900bn

E2 – Google, Bing & Yahoo

E3: A: Larry Page

B: Sergey Brin

C: Scott Hassan
Warm Up 1-4

Answers | Part 2

Jumbled Sentences
People from across the world have been using social media to shareimages of deceased friends and family members.
A2 True or False

1–F

2–T

3–F

4–T

5–F

Synonyms
1–D
2–J

3–B

4–F

5–H

6–E

8–A

9–G

10 – C

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Answers | Part 3436
19345

Listening
Comfort from the Past

With overseas and domestic travel curtailed by COVID restrictions across the world,
a popular escape for those that cannot jump on a plane or train is to explore theworld using various mapping apps. These images have allowed wannabe explorers
to visit some of the world’s most popular destinations from inside their homes. Google
has reported that visitors to their Street View app has increased hugely over the last
15 months. Some of the most popular places that have seen increased online street
traffic include the Colosseum in Rome, Champs Elysée in Paris, Stonehenge in western
England, and The Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia.
However, another and perhaps more poignant legacy of mapping apps such as
Google’s Street View or Apple’s Maps is that images of people who are sadly nolonger
alive
havealso
beencaptured.
Ratherthanbringing
sadness to those relatives and friends of people who have passed away, the ability
to see loved one’s images has brought comfort to many, especially during the COVID
Pandemic.
People from across the world have been using social media to shareimages of deceased friends and family members. Neil Henderson who works at theBBC told his employees what it feels like to see his late father on the Google Street
View App, “It is quite affecting, it is like he’s still around”, he said. Whilst another user
on Twitter shared a screen shot of his parents walking down a British suburban street
with the words, “I can go back to 2009 and see my parents walking down the roadholding hands. I lost them both 8 & 6 years ago.”
Perhaps more agonising is those people who have shared images of people whohave passed away because of COVID-19. A gentleman in Long Beach, southern
California shared a photo of his late mother taken just 11 months ago. She had, herson explained, sneaked outside the front door for a cigarette and been captured by
the Subaru Impreza that Google uses to record and map the world’s streets.
If ENW uses Street View to access images of their hometown of Ellington,
Northumberland in north-east England we can see our mothers’ cat sitting inside theliving room window. Sadly, Pooney – my mother’s cat, died aged 17 last year but it isquite nice to see her staring at the grass hoping some wayward bird may land outside
on the garden. Which was her favourite pastime, well aside from snoozing. Let us
hope that soon people will once more be able to travel and visit friends and loved
ones in person, rather than via a10: walking/viewing/mapping app.
437 Words

Answers | Part 4
A3 Q & A
1 – Street View
2 – Eastern Coast
3 – Apple
4 – Neil Henderson

5 – Subaru
6 – Pooney
E1 – Two (2)E2 – 1998

A&Q
1 – How as Pooney when she died?
2 – What type of cars are used by Google for their mapping app?
3 – Which news company is in the news story?
4 – Where is the Champs Elysée?
5 – Where would you find the Colosseum?
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English Extra 1

1: I 2: F

3: E 4: H 5: A 6: D 7: J 8: B 9: G 10: C
X&Z

And FinallyA4 – X / Z / V / Y / U / T / W
Extra Bit

This Week’s ENW in Photos

Episode 436

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