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ENW 392 Introduction This week’s ENW podcast reports on the frontrunners for the coveted and prestigious title of Word of the Year for 2019! Each year the three major dictionaries of English from the UK, Australian and the US select one word that they feel has come to represent the previous 12 months. Which words are likely to be selected? Are there any surprises as to what the word might be?

ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all!

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Contents Pages

Part 1 | Warm Ups

Odd-One-Out Page 1 Brainstorm Page 1

Previous Words of the Year! Page 1 / 2 Quiz | This Week

Part 2 | Before Listening / Reading

Jumbled Words Page 3 True or False Page 3 Vocabulary |Synonyms Page 3

Part 3 | Listening / Reading

The News Story 391 Words Page 4 What Do You Think...? Page 4

Part 4 | After Listening / Reading

Q & A Page 5 A & Q Page 5

Part 5 | Extra Stuff

Extra English I Page 6 7 to Chinwag Page 6 Writing Activity Page 7

And Finally….

Did You Know? Page 7 TV Links Page 8

The Answers Pages 8-10

| A1 This symbol = Listening activity in the podcast.

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1 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2019 | [email protected]

©2011 - 2019 | Ep. 392 | Woke Sadfishing Prorogued! EDUCATION

[201910-3] | Woke Sadfishing Prorogued | October 18th, 2019

| PART 1 | Warm Ups |

Warm Up | 1 Odd 1 Out

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) Merriam-Webster b) Macquarie c) O.E.D d) Selwood-Jones

My Reason… __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Warm Up | 2 Brainstorm

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?

| Vocabulary |

Warm Up | Words of the Year!

Below are 10 famous movies that all contain the same violent scream noise! Unjumble the letters below and then write the correct titles on page 2!

1

1990 7 2006

2

1992 8 2009

3

1995 9 2012

4

1998 10 2013

5

2000 11 2014

6

2003 12 2017



Words of the Year | Which Year is which Word..? 2 ! 1 2 1 1 1 2 1

2 11 1

A BECAUSE G METROSEXUAL B BULLSLIPS H NOT! C #BLACKLIVESMATTER I PLUTOED D E- (EMAIL/ECOMMERCE) J TWEET E FAKE NEWS K WEB F HASHTAG L Y2K

Warm Up | 4 | A1 Quiz

Read the questions about this week’s news story. Remember if you don’t know – use the Internet to help or GUESS!

1: Which country held the first ‘word of the year’? a: West Germany b: Austria c: Switzerland

2: What year was the first ‘word of the year’ released? a: 1961 b: 1971 c: 1981

3: In 1995 Japan started a ‘Kanji of the year’, what meaning was chosen first? a: Collapse b: Poison c: Quake

4: Which American-based dictionary selects the US Word of the Year? a: Merriam-Webster b: Oxford English Dictionary c: Collins English Dictionary

5: In 2018 what German word referring to the European heatwave was selected? a: Rot-Heiße b: Das Heiße Europa c: Heißzeit

6: The Global Language Monitor named which emoji as most used in 2018?

a: b: c:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

E1: What was the English language ‘phrase of the year’ in 2017? a: _______________________________________

E2: What was the English language name of the year in 2015? a: _______________________________________

E3: Which kanji, chosen in 1995 as Kanji of the Year means ‘quake’?

a: b: c:

END OF PART 1



| 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.

or entered to social racial in of OED definition

2017 a with It the finally “alert injustice.”

2 Will 2019 be a Woke Crisis Cancelled? _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Pre-Listening / Reading | 2 | A2 True or False

Read the headline of News Story ~ Will 2019 be a Woke Crisis Cancelled? Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1 David Shariatmadari is an American author. [T] [F] 2 Macquarie is an Australian based dictionary company. [T] [F] 3 Prorogue became popular in the United Kingdom in 2019. [T] [F] 4 Kris Jenner is an American-based celebrity. [T] [F] 5 Sam Sanders is an African-American NPR broadcaster. [T] [F]

Pre-Listening / Reading | 3 Synonyms

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.

1 Notable 6 Certainty A Select F Integrity 2 Justice 7 Reveal B Considered G Chosen 3 Toxic 8 Selected C Dull H Abuse 4 Plump for 9 Injustice D Noteworthy I Nailed-on 5 Mundane 10 Careful E Unwrap J Noxious

END OF PART 2



| PART 3 | Listening |

Listening / Reading | | Listening Will 2019 be a Woke Crisis Cancelled?

Find the Mistakes | Help Listen / Read the news story and find the mistakes in each paragraph. Look at the words around the missing space to help you.

392 Will 2019 be Woke Crisis Cancelled? 1 3

The word of the year has become a ordinary event in the calendar as dictionaries in the English-speaking world compete to announce their winner for the year. In 2018 the American-based Merriam-Webster selected ‘pancake’, the Australian Macquarie dictionary went for “me too” whilst the oldest of them all – the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) chose “Cola”. But what will the choice for 2019 be? Which words have dominated the English language as the world departs its 21st Century teens and enters our more mature twenties?

2 2

The British author of the newly released book Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language, David Shariatmadari has released a list of ten words he believes the winner from the three major English language dictionaries will ignore. What is surprising in his list is that at first reading they contain words that appear to be rather exciting as well as some more unusual ones. The list is as follows; people, prorogue, femtech, sadfishing, opiod, pronoun, woke, nanoinfluencer, cancelled and crisis.

3 2

ENW will highlight two words that we feel may well be in with a chance of earning the prize of Word of the Year 2019! Prorogue seems a unlikely to become the UKs word as it has come to dominate Britain in the last few months as the term is used to define a legal suspension of parliament. Whilst in the United States - sadfishing which is a term to explain people using emotional issues to hook an audience on social media. An example of this, according to journalist Rebecca Reid, was when celebrity Kris Jenner promised to hide a confession by her daughter – only for it to be revealed as a marketing campaign for skincare.

4 3

Perhaps the word with the strongest claim to be deselected is woke – even though the word first appeared in a 1962 American publication called – Words You Might Hear in Harlem. It finally entered the OED in 2017 with a definition of ‘alert to racial or social partying”. But its prominence in 2019 is due to the African-American NPR broadcaster Sam Sanders appealing ‘to put woke to sleep’. He argued that its overuse by white American liberals has meant it has lost its true meaning. If given the choice what would ENW choose as our word of the year? Well, after careful thought, we would probably, at a pinch, go for #peoplesvote.

[391 Words]

Wrong Word | 10 Mistakes

1: To 6: To 2: To 7: To 3: To 8: To 4: To 9: To 5: To 10: To

END OF PART 3



| PART 4 | After Listening |

Post-Listening / Reading | 1 | A3 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 Which dictionary is uses American-English?

Q2 What is the name of the American broadcaster?

Q3 What publication did ‘woke’ first appear in?

Q4 What was the word of the year for the OED in 2018?

Q5 What would ENW choose as its word for 2019?

Q6 Who wrote Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language?

E1 What does ‘woke’ mean?

E2 How many people are in the news story?

Post-Reading | 2 › A & 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 10 ______________________________________________?

A2 1962 ______________________________________________?

A3 Justice. ______________________________________________?

A4 Sadfishing. ______________________________________________?

A5 Macquarie ______________________________________________?

END OF PART 4



| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |

English Extra I Idioms using ‘Word’

An Idiom in English means a phrase or expression that explains a situation sometimes a literal meaning and sometimes to explain a complication situation.

Example: Don’t breathe a word! = To keep a secret!

Weigh your words = To think very carefully about going to say

Can you match the ‘idiom’ with the correct situation?

1 F Don’t

breathe a word!

2 G A four-

letter word.

3 K A word in one’s ear

4 C Lost for words

5 B Eat your words.

6 J A buzz-word

7 L Get in the last word!

8 E Word is my

bond.

9 A Break one’s

word

10 I To hang on someone’s

words.

11 D Receive

word

12 H Weigh your

words

A To lie or break

a promise.

B Apologise or admit that you made a

mistake.

C Completely surprised or

shocked!

D To find out

news of a big event.

E A promise

F Keep a secret /

Don’t tell anyone your

news! G

Used to avoid

swearing / said a very rude word!

H To think very

carefully about what

you are going to say.

I To listen intently.

J A popular or topical word or phrase.

K Advice.

L Trying to win

a debate or conversation!

7 to Chinwag This Week’s ENW Podcast

ENW Podcast Topic | Woke Sadfishing Prorogued

Ask / Answer the questions below on this week’s ENW Podcast Topic!

1 What did you think when you read this week’s ENW topic? 2 What would your word of 2019 be? Why? 3 How many new words in your native language have you learnt this year? 4 What is your favourite word in English? Why? 5 Which words do you find difficult to pronounce? Why? 6 What word for the list of 10 would you choose as your word of the year?

EX FREE QUESTION!



Writing This Week

Think about your native language. What 10 words for 2019 would you choose? Translate them into English! Give as many details / opinions as you can!

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

END OF PART 5

And Finally! | S/T/UV/W/X/Y/Z | A4 ENW RECAP

(S) This is a Japanese-English podcast that introduces a wide-range of vocabulary aimed at Japanese learners. (T) Since we began in April 2011 we have recorded 392 episodes. (U) Please check out the special edition podcast! (V) In commemoration of this notable achievement the four people who put together the podcasts have recorded a short special edition looking back at our time in podcasts. (W) However, we are not alone. (X) That English News Weekly is based at Hiroshima University in Japan. (Y) Together, all the Hiroshima University podcasts have recorded 1,000 episodes! (Z) There is also another, slightly older, podcast called HU English Podcast.

END OF PART 6



Visual | TV Links

OED | (UK) 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98FlrBZsU1Q [07:37]Word of the Year 2004-2018!

Merriam-Webster | (USA) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n61HLxqFtY [04:48] How Word of the Year is Chosen

Ted-Ed | (USA) 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaSxhcns7Y [04:53] Where English Words Come from!

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

D – Selwood-Jones A / B / C – are real dictionaries! Sadly Selwood-Jones is a made-up name!

Warm Up 3 | Word of the Years

1: B 2: H 3: K 4: D 5: L 6: G 7: I 8: J 9: F 10: A 11: C 12: E

A1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz

1 – A 2 – B 3 – C 4 – A 5 – C 6 – C

E1 – #METOO E2: DONALD TRUMPP E3: A

Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4

Jumbled Sentences

It finally entered the OED in 2017 with a definition of “alert to racial or social injustice”.

A2 True or False

1 – T 2 – T 3 – F 4 – F 5 – F

Synonyms

1 – D 2 – F 3 – J 4 – A 5 – C

6 – I 7 – E 8 – G 9 – H 10 – B



Answers | Part 3 Listening

392 Will 2019 be Woke Crisis Cancelled? 1

The word of the year has become a notable event in the calendar as dictionaries in the English-speaking world compete to announce their winner for the year. In 2018 the American-based Merriam-Webster selected ‘justice’, the Australian Macquarie dictionary went for “me too” whilst the oldest of them all – the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) chose “toxic”. But what will the choice for 2019 be? Which words have dominated the English language as the world departs its 21st Century teens and enters our more mature twenties?

2

The British author of the newly released book Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language, David Shariatmadari has released a list of ten words he believes the winner from the three major English language dictionaries will plump for. What is surprising in his list is that at first reading they contain words that appear to be rather mundane as well as some more unusual ones. The list is as follows; people, prorogue, femtech, sadfishing, opiod, pronoun, woke, nanoinfluencer, cancelled and crisis.

3

ENW will highlight two words that we feel may well be in with a chance of earning the prize of Word of the Year 2019! Prorogue seems a certainty to become the UKs word as it has come to dominate Britain in the last few months as the term is used to define a legal suspension of parliament. Whilst in the United States - sadfishing which is a term to explain people using emotional issues to hook an audience on social media. An example of this, according to journalist Rebecca Reid, was when celebrity Kris Jenner promised to reveal a confession by her daughter – only for it to be revealed as a marketing campaign for skincare.

4 Perhaps the word with the strongest claim to be selected is woke – even though the word first appeared in a 1962 American publication called – Words You Might Hear in Harlem. It finally entered the OED in 2017 with a definition of ‘alert to racial or social injustice”. But its prominence in 2019 is due to the African-American NPR broadcaster Sam Sanders appealing ‘to put woke to sleep’. He argued that its overuse by white American liberals has meant it has lost its true meaning. If given the choice what would ENW choose as our word of the year? Well, after careful thought, we would probably, at a pinch, go for #peoplesvote.

[391 Words]

Answers | Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading

A3 Q & A 1 – Merriam-Webster 5 – #peoplesvote 2 – Sam Sanders 6 – David Shariamadari 3 – Words You Might Hear in Harlem E1 – Alert to racial or social injustice 4 – Toxic E2 – Three (3)

A & Q | Example Questions A1 – How many words are on the shortlist for Word of the Year? A2 – What year was woke first used? A3 – What word was chosen by Merriam-Webster in 2018? A4 - What was Kris Jenner accused of? A5 – Which is the major Australian dictionary?

English Extra

1: F 2: G 3: K 4: C 5: B 6: J 7: L 8: E 9: A 10: I 11: D 12: H



And Finally X & Z

A4 – X / T / W / Z / S / Y / V / U

Extra Bit

This Week’s ENW Images

Episode 392

MAIN PHOTO https://www.rd.com/culture/word-of-the-year/

FURTHER TOPIC LINKS

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/14/cancelled-for-sadfishing-the-top-10-words-of-2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/and-south-africas-word-of-the-year-for-2019-is-20191016 https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-march-2019/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/trending-words-2019/

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