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ENW 398 Introduction This week’s ENW podcast reports on comments made by Pope Francis during his visit to Japan in November 2019. The Pope, head of the 1.2 billion Catholic Church visited the cities of Nagasaki, Tokyo and Hiroshima. At the peace parks in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima Pope Francis spoke of the immoral waste of atomic energy when used for weapons. Why did the pope visit Japan, a country with around 500,000 Catholics out of a population of 125 million?

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

Religious Leaders 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 356 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.

| A1 ポッドキャストに含まれているリスニング演習。

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©2011 - 2019 | Ep. 398 | Selfish Nuclear Weapons WORLD NEWS

[201911-04] | Selfish Nuclear Weapons | November 22nd, 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) Argentina b) UK c) Timor-Este d) The Philippines

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?

| Belief |

Warm Up | Religious Leaders

Below are 10 religious’ leaders from some of the world’s different faiths. Match them with the correct faith from the list on page one!

1: 2: 3: 4: 5:

6: 7: 8: 9: G 10:



Religious Leaders | World Faiths!

Look at the list of 10 religions below and them match them with the correct

religious leader on page 1.

A ANGLICAN F JAINISM

B BUDDHIST G JUDAISM

C EASTERN ORTHODOX H SHINTOISM

D HINDUISM I UKRAINE ORTHODOX

E ISLAM J ZOROASTRIANISM

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: By numbers, which is the biggest religion in the world? a: Islam b: Christianity c: Hinduism

2: What country was Pope Francis of the Catholic Church born in? a: Uruguay b: Brazil c: Argentina

3: How many official Popes of the Catholic Church has there been? a: 266 b: 366 c: 466

4: How many countries officially have nuclear weapons? a: Seven b: Nine c: Eleven

5: Who was the first Pope to have visited Hiroshima’s Peace Park? a: Benedict XVI b: Pius XII c: John Paul II

6: How many Catholics are believed to regularly worship in Japan? a: 509,000 b: 709,000 c: 909,000

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

E1: Which country in the world has the highest percentage of Catholics? a: ______________________________________

E2: Approximately how many monuments are within Hiroshima’s Peace Park? a: _______________________________________

E3: Which photo is Pope Francis?

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.

billion programmes. also 1.2 the of the

of Church Pope such criticised head cost The

maintaining weapon Catholic

2 Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons _____________________________________________________________________________________

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

Read the headline of News Story ~ Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1 Pope Francis II visited three cities in Japan. [T] [F] 2 The Catholic Church has approximately 1.2 bn worshipers. [T] [F] 3 Hideyoshi Toyotomi was a 16th Century Japanese Shogun. [T] [F] 4 Urakami Cathedral is the largest Catholic Church in East Asia. [T] [F] 5 The 2nd Atomic Bomb was dropped on August 9th,1945. [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 Welcomed 6 Vehement A Implored F Surplus 2 Eternal 7 Monument B Departing G Unending 3 Criticised 8 Dropped C Completed H Castigated 4 Prayed 9 Leaving D Memorial I Plummet 5 Survivors 10 Ended E Embraced J Passionate

END OF PART 2



| PART 3 | Listening |

Listening / Reading | | Listening Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons

Which Word? | Help Listen / Read the news stories and circle the 10 mistakes – 2 in each paragraph!

398 Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons 1 On a cold November evening the Japanese city of Hiroshima banished Pope Francis

to Peace Park, the memorial complex dedicated to the destruction caused by the world’s first atomic bomb. In a speech in front of the War Flame in the centre of the park, Pope Francis took the opportunity to denounce the use of atomic weapons as “a crime against human beings and against any possible future.”

2 The pope head of the 1.2 billion Catholic Church also praised the cost of maintaining such weapon programmes. “The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit peoples and to protect the environment.” The pope then danced at the memorial that commemorates the 140,000 people killed due to the bombing of August 6th,1945.

3 During his visit to Hiroshima and earlier in the day to Nagasaki the second city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it, Pope Francis also spoke to fatalities of the attacks. One of the survivors he spoke to, 89-year-old Yoshiko Kajimoto told the 83-year-old pontiff about her experiences, “No one in this world can imagine such a scene of hell, bodies were so burned and totally red. They no longer looked human.” After speaking to Kajimoto-san and other survivors, the pope repeated his faint opposition to atomic weapons, “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral” he said.

4 During the visit to Nagasaki earlier in the day Pope Francis also paid a visit to a onsen in tribute to 26 murdered 16th Century Japanese Catholics killed on the orders of the feudal lord – Hideyoshi Toyotomi. He also prayed at Urakami Cathedral which on August 9th, 1945 when the atomic bomb was created on the city was then the largest Catholic cathedral in East Asia.

5 Pope Francis is the second pope to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first being Pope John Paul II on February 25th,1981. After partying Hiroshima, the pope went on to Tokyo where he met the new Japanese Emperor, Naruhito and the country’s Prime Minister – Shinzo Abe. He started his Japanese visit with a Mass at the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium in front of 50,000 people.

356 WORDS

10 Mistakes | Corrections!

1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10

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 In front of what memorial did Pope Francis speak in Hiroshima?

Q2 What is the name of the cathedral in Nagasaki?

Q3 What year did Pope John Paul II visit Hiroshima?

Q4 How many Catholics were murdered in 16th Century Nagasaki?

Q5 What is the name of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb survivor?

Q6 What was the venue for Pope Francis’ last event in Japan?

E1 From which country does Pope Francis come from?

E2 How many cities 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 1.2 bn. ______________________________________________?

A2 August 6th ______________________________________________?

A3 140,000 ______________________________________________?

A4 50,000. ______________________________________________?

A5 83. ______________________________________________?

END OF PART 4



| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |

English Extra I Idioms using – War

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: A war of nerves = Defeating an opponent through words / pressure. A flame war – Angry online exchanges

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

1 A war of nerves

2 A turf

war

3 All is fair

in love and war.

4 Been in the

wars

5 Dogs of

war

6 A flame

war

7 On the warpath

8 Tug of

war

9 War paint

10 An act of

war.

11 An old

warhorse.

12 Lose the battle

but win the war.

A An angry

online exchange

usually on message boards.

B Otherwise

questionable actions are

acceptable under extenuating

circumstances.

C Someone who is extremely

angry.

D When people struggle for supremacy over one another.

E A minor defeat or

failure – but overall success.

F Used to refer to someone who looks decrepit or

very untidy.

G The chaos that

comes with total war.

H A veteran of

some activity or profession.

I Defeating

opponents by putting verbal

pressure on them.

J A violent

action justified by happening during a conflict.

K Usually

criminals fighting to control an

area or territory.

L Expression

for a woman’s make-up

7 to Chinwag! This Week’s ENW Podcast

ENW Podcast Topic | Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons

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 is your opinion on nuclear energy? Why? 3 Do the pope’s carry the necessary influence amongst world leaders? Why? 4 What is the most important memorial statue in your country? Why? 5 What is the biggest tragedy in your home region? What happened? 6 Which religious leaders do you have respect for? Why?

EX FREE QUESTION!



Writing This Week

What is your opinion regarding nuclear weapons and nuclear power? Are they good? Bad? Necessary? Give as many details / opinions / facts as you can!

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END OF PART 5

And Finally! | U/V/W/X/Y/Z | A4 ENW RECAP

(V) In ENW 247: Memory Must Not Fade we reported on the visit of then US president Barak Obama to Hiroshima’s Peace Park. (W) That visit, the first by an active US president was celebrated, but also was mired in controversy. (X) President Obama refused to apologise for the decision to drop the atomic bomb, although he did express his horror at the effects of war – especially on civilians. (Y) Not unexpectedly that Hiroshima’s Peace Park has seen many illustrious foreign visitors over the decades. (Z) It seems unlikely that President Trump will visit Hiroshima for the 75th Anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb in August 2020. ___________

END OF PART 6



Visual | TV Links

Vatican TV | (Vatican Cityt) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtbhFA2HXc [03:22] Pope Francis’ Arrival in Hiroshima

France 24 | (France) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=098pqgDIdvc 1 [01:46] Pope Francis Speaks in Nagasaki

Vatican TV | (EU)

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJFA0MbLY1Y [00:58] John Paul IIs visit to Hiroshima in 1981

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

B – U.K. A / C / D –The UK is not a Catholic majority country.

Warm Up 3 | World Religions

1: C 2: H 3: I 4: D 5: J

6: F 7: B 8: A 9: G 10: E

A1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz

1 – B 2 – C 3 – A 4 – B 5 – C 6 – A

E1 – VATICAN CITY E2 – 50 approx E3: C

Answers | Part 1 Pre-Listening / Reading 1-3

Jumbled Sentences

The pope head of the 1.2 billion Catholic Church also criticised the cost of maintaining such weapon programmes

A2 True or False

1 – F 2 – T 3 – F 4 – F 5 – T

Synonyms

1 – E 2 – G 3 – H 4 – A 5 – F

6 – J 7 – D 8 – I 9 – B 10 – C



Answers | Part 3 Listening/Reading

398 Pope Warns of Immoral Nuclear Weapons 1 On a cold November evening the Japanese city of Hiroshima welcomed Pope Francis to

Peace Park, the memorial complex dedicated to the destruction caused by the world’s first atomic bomb. In a speech in front of the Peace Flame in the centre of the park, Pope Francis took the opportunity to denounce the use of atomic weapons as “a crime against human beings and against any possible future.”

2 The pope head of the 1.2 billion Catholic Church also criticised the cost of maintaining such weapon programmes. “The arms race wastes precious resources that could be better used to benefit peoples and to protect the environment.” The pope then prayed at the memorial that commemorates the 140,000 people killed due to the bombing of August 6th,1945.

3 During his visit to Hiroshima and earlier in the day to Nagasaki the second city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it, Pope Francis also spoke to survivors of the attacks. One of the survivors he spoke to, 89-year-old Yoshiko Kajimoto told the 83-year-old pontiff about her experiences, “No one in this world can imagine such a scene of hell, bodies were so burned and totally red. They no longer looked human.” After speaking to Kajimoto-san and other survivors, the pope repeated his vehement opposition to atomic weapons, “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral” he said.

4 During the visit to Nagasaki earlier in the day Pope Francis also paid a visit to a monument in tribute to 26 murdered 16th Century Japanese Catholics killed on the orders of the Shogun – Hideyoshi Toyotomi. He also prayed at Urakami Cathedral which on August 9th, 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city was then the largest Catholic cathedral in East Asia.

5 Pope Francis is the second pope to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first being Pope John Paul II on February 25th,1981. After leaving Hiroshima the pope went on to Tokyo where he met the new Japanese Emperor, Naruhito and the country’s Prime Minister – Shinzo Abe. He ended his Japanese visit with a Mass at the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium in front of 50,000 people.

356 WORDS

Answers | Post Listening / Reading-Listening / Reading

A3 Q & A 1 – Eternal Flame 5 – Yoshiko Kajimoto 2 – Urakami Cathedral 6 – Tokyo Dome 3 – 1981 E1 – Argentina 4 – 26 E2 – 3

A & Q | Example Questions A1 – How many Catholics are there world-wide? A2 – What was the date when the first atomic bomb was dropped? A3 – How many people in Hiroshima were killed through the atomic bomb? A4 - How many people attended the pope’s mass in Tokyo? A5 – How old is Pope Francis?



English Extra

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

And Finally X & Z

A4 – Y / V / W / X / Z /

Extra Bit

This Week’s ENW Images



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MAIN PHOTOS https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/pope-francis-visit-hiroshima-says-possession-nuclear-

weapons-immoral

External Links http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/tour_e/ireihi/tour_54_e.html

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/uracathe/ https://www.npr.org/2019/11/24/782450610/pope-francis-in-visit-to-hiroshima-says-

possession-of-nuclear-weapons-is-immoral?t=1574824475888 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/world/asia/pope-francis-japan-nuclear.html

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