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ENW 425 Introduction
This week’s ENW podcast reports on an incredible discovery of a
2,000-year-old cat in Peru. The ancient geoglyph of a feline was
uncovered after maintenance work on the side of a hill stumbled up
outline. The geoglyph is believed to be part of a series of ancientcarvings that are dotted across South America. The origins of thehuge images are still not known, nor what they were created for. Whatis the importance of the new discovery? What will happen to thegeoglyph now that it has been unearthed?

Listen to English News Weekly Podcast to find out!

HOMEPAGE(c) Jaime SelwoodAND

ENW Episode 219

SOCIAL MEDIATECHNOLOGYContents Pages
Part 1|Warm Ups

Odd-One-Out
Brainstorm
Global Geoglyphs
Quiz | This Week

Page 1Page 1Page 1 / 2
Page 2

Part 2|

Before Listening / Reading

Jumbled Words
True or False
Vocabulary | Antonyms

Part 3

Page 3
Page 3
Page 3|

Listening / Reading

The News Story 427 Words
What Do You Think...?

Part 4|

Page 4
Page 4After Listening / Reading

Q&AA&Q

Page 5Page 5Part 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| A1

This 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) geothermalb) geoglyphc) geotimed) geocentric

My 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?

| Archeology |Warm Up |Global Geoglyphs

Look at the photographs below of some world-famous geoglyphs.
What is the location for each one?
Write your answers or if you prefer look at page 2 for some help!

1: England

2: Kazakhstan

3: USA

4: Chile

5: Peru

6: Peru

7: USA

8: England

9: Peru

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Global Geoglyphs | Which Name…?
Read the list of global geoglyphs from around the world and match them withthe correct imagery from page one!

AB
CDE

AMAZONIAN GEOGLYPHSATACAMA GIANT
EFFIGY MOUNTAINSKazakhstan Lines
GREAT SERPENT MOUND

Warm Up | 4GHIJKParacas Candelabra
NAZCA LINES
Uffington White Horse
Wari Tapestry
Westbury White Horse

| A1

Quiz

Read the questions about this week’s news story.
Remember if you don’t know – use the Internet to help or GUESS!
Q1 Which South American country are the Nazca Lines located in?
a: Peru b: Chile c: Panama
Q2 The world’s oldest believed geoglyph is a moose, where is it located?
a: South America b: Europe c: Africa
Q3 Measuring 4.2km - where is the world’s largest geoglyph?
a: Australia b: Ecuador c: Uganda
Q4 Domesticated cats originated in which ancient civilisation?
a: Mesopotamia b: Greece c: Egypt.
Q5 What is the most expensive breed of domesticated cat?
a: The Peterbald b: Bengal Cat c: Savannah Cat
Q6 What is the average salary per person for Peru?
a: US$1, 845 b: US$5, 845 c: US$7, 845
X1

The Nazca Civilisation had fallen by what century?

X2

What year were the Nazca Lines rediscovered by Europeans?

X3

Name these three ancient civilisations?

A:

B:

C:

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3 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2020 | jaimeselwood@gmail.com| PART 2 | Before Listening |Pre-Listening / Reading | 1

Jumbled Sentences

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

continent
cantoorfound
AmericauniqueEarth.
Southnoton

Perubeon
Geoglyphs

everyareandA Lost Cat on a Hillside2_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pre-Listening / Reading | 2| A2

True or False

Read the headline of News Story – A Lost Cat on a Hillside
Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1 The feline geoglyph was fond 402km north of Lima, Peru.

[T] [F]

2 Maree Man is a massive geoglyph located in Victoria, Australia.

[T] [F]

3 The Nazca Lines were rediscovered in the early 20th Century.

[T] [F]

4 The Uffington White Horse is located in Oxfordshire, England.

[T] [F]

5 Lake Zyuratkul is located in northern Ukraine.

[T] [F]
Antonyms

Pre-Listening / Reading | 3An antonym is a word with an opposite meaning.
Match the 10 words on the left with their antonyms on the right.
All the antonyms in black are from the News Stories.

123
45Feline

6EverydayA

ConcealF

GradualAncient

7

Birds-eyeB

CanineGBiased

Steep
Excavate

89UniqueWhiteC
DSedately
TerrafirmaHI

ModernOrdinary

Depict10Quickly

E

UnfamiliarJ

Fill-in

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4 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2020 | jaimeselwood@gmail.com| PART 3 | Listening |Listening / Reading |A Lost Cat on a Hillside| Listening

Three Words? | Choose the Word!
Listen / Read the news story and circle the correct word from each choice.
HINT – Look at the words around the selection to discover to help you!

425
1

2

3

4

5

6

A Lost Cat on a Hillside

ENW has three cats, indeed at times it feels as though our home is controlled
by these domesticated 1: moggies/furballs/walkers. Despite their best efforts
at times, they are, sadly, not easy to lose. So, at first it seemed impossible thata cat measuring 37 metres across could have been mislaid for more than 2,000years! Yet, that is exactly what happened 402km south of Lima in
2: Ecuador/Peru/Chile. A massive, ancient geoglyph carved into the side of ahill lay unseen for more than two centuries.
The feline figure was only rediscovered on a hillside in Peru’s Pampas deJumana region after maintenance work at a popular tourist vista. A Peruvian
Cultural Ministry spokeswoman said of the find, “The figure was barely visible
and was about to disappear as its location is on a fairly
3: gentle/slippery/steep slope and the effects of natural erosion.” After thediscovery was made, archeologists were invited to the site to excavate andpreserve the feline geoglyph. They unearthed a series of lines between 30 to40 4: centimetres/metres/inches wide that were believed to have been madebetween 200 BC to 100BC.
The cat geoglyph is part of the Nazca Lines that were created by a preHispanic society that existed in some part up until 8th Century AD. Most of thefigures in the area are depictions of animals, birds, 5: plants/trees/fruit andeveryday objects. Although patterns are also included in the Nazcar Lines
including mysterious shapes of spirals and 6: squares/circles/triangles. Nobody
is exactly sure why these images were carved or for what reason.
The Nazcar Lines were largely forgotten in history until the beginning of the7: 18th/19th/20th Century when Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe
unearthed mysterious lines carved into the landscape. Although it wasn’t until
the advent of the age of flight when people could really experience the true
beauty of theses massive images from the birds-eye view of an aeroplane.
Geoglyphs are not unique to Peru or South America and can be found on
every continent on Earth. The oldest geoglyph is located next to Lake Zyuratkul
in the Ural Mountains of 8: Ukraine/Russia/Georgia. Whilst the largest with aheight of 4.2km is called Marree Man and is to be found in South Australia. The
first geoglyph that ENW saw was the Uffington White 9: Cat/Wolf/Horse, a
3,000-year-old, 110m-long chalk figure located in Oxfordshire, England whilst
on a school-trip that thousands of English schoolchildren make each year.
Oh, and by the way if you do happen to mislay a cat or two, you know thebest way to find them quickly? Rattle their 10: biscuit/cookie/water barrel
loudly!
427Words

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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 is the capital city of Peru?
Q2 What region of Peru was the feline geoglyph uncovered?
Q3 What are the series of geoglyphs in South America called?
Q4 Which archeologist first discovered the Nazca Lines?
Q5 What is the name of the largest geoglyph in the world?
Q6 Where in Russia is the oldest geoglyph in the world?
X1

Where was the first geoglyph that ENW saw?

X2

How many cities are mentioned in the report?

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

402km

______________________________________________?

A237 metres______________________________________________?

A3

8th Century.

______________________________________________?

A4

4.2km

______________________________________________?

A5110m______________________________________________?
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6 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2020 | jaimeselwood@gmail.com| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |English Extra IEnglish Idioms Using ‘line’

Idioms – are phrases that are commonly used and will help improve yourEnglish communication skills!
Match the ‘correct idiom in blue with their meanings in red!
Do you understand what they mean?

12345

To draw aline in thesandA hotline

All along
the line

Be in line forsomething

To be in thefiring line.

67

8

9

10

To be in thepipeline

To be outof line

To blow
one’s lines

Bright LineRule

A chat upline

ABCDE

To forgetwords orspeech thatyou aregiving.

Theplace/ideathat you will
not gobeyond.

A law toclarify toambiguity inrules or laws.

The direct link
betweenheads of state– usually inconflict.

To act in an
inappropriatemanner.

FGHIJ

The target of
someone’sanger,
frustration orcriticism.

A sentence
used toseduce
someone you
have just met.

To wait in aqueue.

Somethingthat is inprogress /happening atthe time.

At everystage or point
along the way

This Week’s ENW Podcast

7 to Chinwag

ENW Podcast Topic | A Lost Cat on a Hillside
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?

3

What unexplained ancient symbols does your country have?

Why do you think the ancient Nazca Lines were created?

4 If you were going to create a geoglyph, what figure would you design? Why?
5 What is the oldest item you have ever seen?
6 What ancient monument would you most like to visit? Why?
EXFREE QUESTION!
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Writing

This Week

Think of three ancient monuments / artefacts.
Why did you choose these three? What are they? Where are they?
Try to give as many reasons as you can!

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

Did You Know?

(U) What is known is that the huge image of an indigenous Australian
man was not created before 1998. (V) There is currently a AUS$5,000
reward for knowledge about who the creator was! (W) This was provenwhen satellite images of the region were compared from 1998 andbefore. (X) That the largest geoglyph in the world is located in theAustralian state of South Australia. (Y) The origins of the geoglyph are
not known, there have been suggestions that it was made by a local
artist or by members of an American religious cult. (Z) The figure is 2.7km
tall with an incredible perimeter of 28km!
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Visual | TV Links
CGTN| (China)
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CfSW3_JIGo
Huge Geoglyph Discovered in Peru

[00:53]

Discovery Canada | (UK)
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vOnFV6gpQNazca Lines from Drones[02:17]

El Prado | (Spain)
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWIYb5zd6p8
What is Hiding Below the Nazca Lines?

[03:00]

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

A / B / D – are all words in English that begin
with the prefix – geo.

C – Geotime

Warm Up 3 | Global Geoglyphs
1: K
2: D
3: C
6: G
7: E
8: I

4: B
9: J

5: J
10: A

4–C5–CA1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz
1–A

2–B

3–A

6–B

E1 – 9th Century E2 – 1553
E3: A: Cherokee B: Inca C: Nazca

Warm Up 1-4

Answers | Part 2
Jumbled Sentences

Geoglyphs are not unique to Peru or South America and can be foundon every continent on Earth.
A2 True or False
1–F

2–F

3–T

4–T

5–F

Antonyms
1–B

2–H

3–F

4–J

5–A

6–E

7–D

8–I

9–G

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Answers | Part 3

Listening425
A Lost Cat on a Hillside
1 ENW has three cats, indeed at times it feels as though our home is controlled by thesedomesticated moggies. Despite their best efforts at times, they are, sadly, not easy
to lose. So, at first it seemed impossible that a cat measuring 37 metres across could
have been mislaid for more than 2,000 years! Yet, that is exactly what happened
402km south of Lima in Peru. A massive, ancient geoglyph carved into the side of ahill lay unseen for more than two centuries.
2 The feline figure was only rediscovered on a hillside in Peru’s Pampas de Jumana
region after maintenance work at a popular tourist vista. A Peruvian Cultural Ministry
spokeswoman said of the find, “The figure was barely visible and was about todisappear as its location is on a fairly steep slope and the effects of natural erosion.”
After the discovery was made, archeologists were invited to the site to excavate andpreserve the feline geoglyph. They unearthed a series of lines between 30 to 40
centimetres wide that were believed to have been made between 2000BC to 100BC.
3The cat geoglyph is part of the Nazca Lines that were created by a pre-Hispanic
society that existed in some part up until 8th Century AD. Most of the figures in thearea are depictions of animals, birds, plants and everyday objects. Although patterns
are also included in the Nazcar Lines including mysterious shapes of spirals andtriangles. Nobody is exactly sure why these images were carved or for what reason.

4The Nazcar Lines were largely forgotten in history until the beginning of the 20thCentury when Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe unearthed mysterious lines
carved into the landscape. Although it wasn’t until the advent of the age of flightwhen people could really experience the true beauty of theses massive images fromthe birds-eye view of an aeroplane.

5Geoglyphs are not unique to Peru or South America and can be found on every
continent on Earth. The oldest geoglyph is located next to Lake Zyuratkul in the Ural
Mountains of Russia. Whilst the largest with a height of 4.2km is called Marree Man
and is to be found in South Australia. The first geoglyph that ENW saw was theUffington White Horse, a 3,000-year-old, 110m-long chalk figure located in
Oxfordshire, England whist on a school trip that thousands of English schoolchildren
make each year.
Oh, and by the way if you do happen to mislay a cat or two, you know the best way
to find them quickly? Rattle their biscuit barrel loudly!

6427Words

Answers | Part 4
A3 Q & A
1 – Lima
2 – Pampas de Jumana
3 – Nazca Lines
4 – Toribio Meijia Xesspe

5 – Maree Man
6 – Lake Zyuratkul
E1 – Oxfordshire, England
E2 – One (1)A & Q | Example Questions
A1 – How far south is the feline geoglyph from Lima?
A2 – How long across is the newly discovered feline geoglyph?
A3 – When is it believed that the feline geoglyph was created?
A4 – How big is the largest geoglyph in the world?
A5 – How long is the White Horse in England?
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English Extra

1: B 2: D 3: J

4: H 5: F

6: I

7: E 8: A 9: C 10: G

X&Z

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

This Week’s ENW in Photos

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https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-Greatest-Ancient-Geoglyphs-in-the-World
https://petlifesa.com/pet-news/12-most-expensive-cats-in-the-world/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/nazca-lines-peru-cat/index.html
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-oldcat-figure-in-peru
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/nazca-lines-peru-cat/index.html
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