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ENW 413 Introduction This week’s ENW podcast reports on an innovative idea from Berlin in Germany that hopes both get people healthy and fight the restrictions of COVID-19. The bohemian district of Kreuzberg in Berlin has introduced ‘pop-up’ bike lanes. Why? Well the aim is to allow people to commute to work or the shops without coming within 1.5 metres of each other. Has it worked? Have any other cities copied the scheme?

ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all!

Contents Pages

Part 1 | Warm Ups

Odd-One-Out Page 1 Brainstorm Page 1 Bicycle Cities 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 393 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。

1 | The English News Weekly Podcast | © Jaime Selwood 2020 | [email protected]

© English News Weekly: 2011 - 2020 | Ep. 413 | Pop-Up Bike Lanes to Fight COVID-19! HEALTH

[202005-03] | Pop-Up Bike Lanes to Fight Covid-19 | May 15th, 2020

| 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) Kreuzberg b) Mitte c) Berlin d) Spandau

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?

| Cycling |

Warm Up | Best Cycling Cities in the World!

Which are the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world?

Look at the country flag to aid your choice.

Then check your answers with the options on page 2!

1: 2: 4: 6: 7:

10: 11: 12: 16: 18:



Bicycle Cities | Which Cities are Best..?

Read the list of 10 cities from around the world and put them in order of

which cities are the best for cycling!

A ANTWERP G COPENHAGEN B AMSTERDAM H HELSINKI C BOGOTA I OSLO D BORDEAUX J VANCOUVER E BREMEN K TOKYO

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!

Q1 Which city has been voted as the Best Cycling City in the World: 2019? a: Copenhagen b: Vancouver c: Bogota Q2 Which country holds the greatest annual cycling race in the world? a: Spain b: Italy c: France Q3 Which German city has the district of Kreuzberg? a: Munich b: Hamburg c: Berlin Q4 At a cost of €462,000 what is the most expensive road bike on sale? a: Chrome Hearts X Cervelo b: Trek Butterfly Madone c: Moynat Malle

Q5 Which country has the most bike lanes per capita? a: Denmark b: China c: Canada Q6 What is the longest bicycle road race in the world? a: Trans-Sahara b: Trans-Siberian c: The Latin South-North X1 What year was the first bicycle invented? X2 Which nationality has won the Tour de France 6 times the 21sT Century?

X3 Which is the city coat of arms for Copenhagen?

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.

to scheme the pop- more around

have of due been lanes Berlin. created success up the

However,

2 Cycling to Stay Safe _____________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Read the headline of News Story – Cycling to Stay Safe Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1 Kreuzberg used to be the poorest district in Berlin. [T] [F]

2 The district is home to 153,000 Berliners. [T] [F] 3 The ‘pop-up’ bike lanes started in April 2020. [T] [F] 4 Environmental Action Germany is an NGO. [T] [F] 5 The Free Democratic Socialist Party is a German political group. [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 synonym on the right. All the synonym in black are from the News Stories.

1 District 6 Application A Plan F Liquefying 2 Melting 7 Low-tech B Aroma G Defiance 3 Taste 8 Resistance C Escalation H Egalitarian 4 Scheme 9 Democratic D Emanate I Usance 5 Spread 10 Emerge E Jejune J Area

END OF PART 2



| PART 3 | Listening |

Listening / Reading | | Listening Cycling to Stay Safe

Three Words! | Help Listen / Read the news story and choose the correct word from the three spaces.

HINT: Look at words close to the missing word to help!

413 CYCLING - TO STAY SAFE! 1 Nestled in the south of Berlin and with the River a: Danube/Weser/Spree to the

east is the district of Kreuzberg. Once the poorest area of West Berlin when the city and the country was divided into East and b: South/North/West, Kreuzberg now thrives as a cultural melting pot. Since reunification the district has also remained the centre of the Berlin music scene. With a club for every taste from rap, breakdance, punk, techno, rave and many, many more. It has also emerged, since the COVID-19 lockdown, as the home for a new type of traffic – safe distance c: walking/cycling/running!

2 Concerned by how to prevent COVID-19 from exploding in Kreuzberg – home to 153,000 Berliners, the local authorities began a scheme of ‘pop-up’ bike lanes. This was done by creating new, c: wider/narrower/safer bike lanes that help cyclists keep the required 1.5 metre distance from each other. This was in response not only to try to d: escalate/depress/limit the spread of COVID-19, but to create an eco-friendlier, less petrol-reliant lifestyle for Kreuzberg e: residents/locals/Kreuzbergers.

3 The ‘pop-up’ cycling lanes were first introduced on March 27th as a pilot scheme limited only to Kreuzberg. However, due to the success of the scheme more pop-up lanes have been created around Berlin. The Kreuzberg Council has used a low-tech approach to f: creating/making/building the bike lanes. They have simply recycled luminous removable tape and spray-on road markings. So popular have the bike ‘pop-up’ lanes become, that residents in 133 other g: German/French/Dutch cities have submitted applications for their own ‘pop-up’ bike lanes.

4 A further reason for introducing more bike lanes is new research linking air pollution to higher COVID-19 death rates. The German NGO - Environmental Action Germany’s chairperson said, “Coronavirus is showing us that h: clean/dirty/fresh air is an asset. It is now especially important for people to move safely on their bikes and clean, fresh air will help them do this.” However, the scheme has not been i: exactly/very/universally popular in Germany, resistance has come from the pro-business Free Democratic Party. They described the pop-up bike lanes as “unnecessarily provocative and of j: little/great/significant practical use.”

5 ENW has been fortunate enough to visit Kreuzberg on half-a-dozen occasions – the first in 2014 and have even cycled in the district! The idea of ‘pop-up’ bike lanes seems both a k: smarter/healthier/greedier and environmentally friendly mode of transport. Especially as the world slowly emerges from COVID-19 lockdowns. But, do you agree podcasters?

393 WORDS

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 What district in Berlin has introduced ‘pop-up’ bike lanes?

Q2 What is the name of the river in Berlin?

Q3 What date did ‘pop-up’ bike lanes first appear in Berlin?

Q4 What is the name of the German NGO?

Q5 Which political party opposes the ‘pop-up’ bike lanes?

Q6 What material has been used to create the bike lanes?

X1 What year did ENW first visit Berlin?

X2 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 133 ______________________________________________?

A2 1.5 metre. ______________________________________________?

A3 Berlin. ______________________________________________?

A4 Spray-on. ______________________________________________?

A5 COVID-19. ______________________________________________?

END OF PART 4



| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |

English Extra I Phrases / Idioms that revolve around ‘health’

Idioms are words and phrases that have a meaning not clear from the words used in the idiom. They are very common ways of communicating in English though!

Examples: In bad shape = In very poor physical health Out of sorts = To feel upset or irritable

Match the ‘idiom’ with the correct meaning? How would you update them?

1 2 3 4 5 6 In bad shape

Back on your feet

A bag of bones

Full of beans

To black out

To feel blue

7 8 9 10 11 12

A cast iron stomach

Like death warmed

up.

To die with one’s boots

on.

Hale and hearty

To meet your maker

Out of sorts

A B C D E F A return to

health after illness or an accident.

Someone who is lively,

active and healthy.

Someone who has

died / about to

die.

In very poor

physical condition.

The ability to eat or

drink anything.

Someone who is

extremely thin.

G H I J K L

To look very ill or tired.

(older person) who is in excellent health.

To lose cognisance

To feel upset,

irritable or not feeling

well.

To have deep

feelings of sadness or depression.

To be healthy until the

end one’s life.

7 to Chinwag This Week’s ENW Podcast

ENW Podcast Topic | Cycling to Stay Safe

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

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

2 Are pop-up bike lanes a positive way to counter COVID-19? Why?

3 How much cycling do you every week?

4 What is your most common way to weekly exercise?

5 Should more cities introduce bike lanes to be eco-friendly? Why?

6 What is the farthest distance you think you could cycle in one day?

EX FREE QUESTION!



Writing This Week

Think about your weekly exercise regime? What kind of activities? What kinds of exercise do you enjoy / not enjoy? Why? Give as many reasons as you can!

END OF PART 5

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

(V) In September 2017 ENW 308 reported on a remarkable achievement by one intrepid Scotsman. (X) Mark Beaumont, then 33 years old, cycled around the world in less than 80 days! (Z) His route took him east from Paris and a 40,000km trek that ended just 78 days later! (W) This was not the first time Mr Beaumont has cycled the world, his first trans-continental journey was in 2008 when it took him 194 days and 17 hours to complete! (Y) Other journeys include cycling Africa solo in 48 days and taking 81 days to cycle the Americas – a journey of 15,000 miles! (U) Off a bicycle - he has also attempted to row to the magnetic North Pole, although after 2,000 miles was beaten when his boat capsized and sunk! ______________________ END OF PART 6



Visual | TV Links

You Tube | (USA) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zogGJVExQU [02:11] Pop Up Bike Lanes in Berlin CBS 46| (USA) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPODBLOxBU [01:43] Pop Up Bike Lanes in Atlanta You Tube | (USA) 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25Y2YUX6s0 [02:01] Brief History of Kreuzberg

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 – Berlin A / B / D – are all districts within the city of Berlin!

Warm Up 3 | Islands – Which Font? 1: Copenhagen 2: Amsterdam 4: Antwerp 6: Bordeaux 7: Oslo 10: Helsinki 11: Bremen 12: Bogota 16: Tokyo 18: Vancouver

A1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz

1 – A 2 – C 3 – C 4 – B 5 – A 6 – B

E1 – 17 E2 – UNITED KINGDOM E3: C

Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4

Jumbled Sentences

However, due to the success of the scheme more pop-up lanes have been created around Berlin.

A2 True or False

1 – T 2 – T 3 – F 4 – T 5 – F Synonyms 1 – J 2 – F 3 – B 4 – A 5 – C

6 – I 7 – E 8 – G 9 – H 10 – D



Answers | Part 3 Listening

413 CYCLING - TO STAY SAFE!

1 Nestled in the south of Berlin and with the River Spree to the east is the district of Kreuzberg. Once the poorest area of West Berlin when the city and the country was divided into East and West, Kreuzberg now thrives as a cultural melting pot. Since reunification the district has also remained the centre of the Berlin music scene. With a club for every taste from rap, breakdance, punk, techno, rave and many, many more. It has also emerged, since the COVID-19 lockdown, as the home for a new type of traffic – safe distance cycling.

2 Concerned by how to prevent COVID-19 from exploding in Kreuzberg – home to 153,000 Berliners, the local authorities began a scheme of ‘pop-up’ bike lanes. This was done by creating new, wider bike lanes that help cyclists keep the required 1.5 metre distance from each other. This was in response not only to try to limit the spread of COVID-19, but to create an eco-friendlier, less petrol-reliant lifestyle for Kreuzberg residents

3 The ‘pop-up’ cycling lanes were first introduced on March 27th as a pilot scheme limited only to Kreuzberg. However, due to the success of the scheme more pop-up lanes have been created around Berlin. The Kreuzberg Council has used a low-tech approach to creating the bike lanes. They have simply recycled luminous removable tape and spray-on road markings. So popular have the bike ‘pop-up’ lanes become, that residents in 133 other German cities have submitted applications for their own ‘pop-up’ bike lanes.

4 A further reason for introducing more bike lanes is new research linking air pollution to higher COVID-19 death rates. The German NGO - Environmental Action Germany’s chairperson said, “Coronavirus is showing us that clean air is an asset. It is now especially important for people to move safely on their bikes and clean, fresh air will help them do this.” However, the scheme has not been universally popular in Germany, resistance has come from the pro-business Free Democratic Party. They described the pop-up bike lanes as “unnecessarily provocative and of little practical use.”

5 ENW has been fortunate enough to visit Kreuzberg on half-a-dozen occasions – the first in 2014 and have even cycled in the district! The idea of ‘pop-up’ bike lanes seems both a healthier and environmentally friendly mode of transport. Especially as the world slowly emerges from COVID-19 lockdowns. But, do you agree podcasters?

393 WORDS

Answers | Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading

A3 Q & A 1 – KREUZBERG 5 – FREE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 2 – SPREE 6 – LUMINOUS TAPE 3 – MARCH 27th E1 – 2014 4 – ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION GERMANY E2 – ONE

A & Q | Example Questions A1 – How many cities in Germany have requested pop up bike lanes? A2 – What is the safe distance for being apart? A3 – What city is the capital of Germany? A4 – How are the new bike lanes created? A5 – What is the name of the virus?



English Extra

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

And Finally X & Z

A4 – V / X / Z / W / Y / U Extra Bit

This Week’s ENW Images



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EXTERNAL LINKS https://copenhagenizeindex.eu

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-bicycle-friendly-cities-of-the-world.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberg

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/pop-up-bike-lanes-help-with-coronavirus-social-distancing-in-germany

https://www.redbulltranssiberianextreme.com https://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idiom-categories/health/

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