OCTOBER 06/11/2015 The Emotional Robot 1 of 13 20 2017 EPISODE 312 THE ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY PODCAST FLASHBACK ENW 58: PAMPLONAL BULLS GORGE TOURISTS Viking Revelation! ENW 312 Introduction This week s English News Weekly podcast reports on a fascinating discovery from Sweden that could alter Viking history. Garments recovered from 9 th and 10 th Century Viking graves have revealed Arabic writing including the words Allah and Ali embroidered on some of them. Researchers from a Swedish University claim this is the first time such discoveries have been found. What does this mean? Why is this interesting? English News Weekly will try to explain all HOMEPAGE http://pod.flare.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/cms/enw.php FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/enw1975 (c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 219 TECHNOLOGY TWITTER twitter.com/enwpodcast
Contents Pages Part 1 Warm Ups Odd-One-Out Page 1 Brainstorm Page 1 Most Successful Horror Movies Ever! Page 1 / 2 Quiz This Week Page 2 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 351 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 2017 [201710-03] Viking Revelation! October 20 th 2017 PART 1 Warm Ups Warm Up 1 Odd 1 Out Look at the four words below, which word is different from the other three? Write your reason in the box underneath. Check your answer later. a) Sweden b) Iceland c) Greenland d) Denmark My Reason Warm Up 2 Brainstorm How many different words can you connect to the word in the box? Can you think of at least 10 words? Why do you think this? Scandinavia Warm Up 3 Norse Flags! Below are 12 Norse Flags that represent countries / regions around the world. Choose a country / regions from page 2 and find the correct flag! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DENMARK 10 11 12
2 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 Scary Movies Which is the Most Profitable..? Read the list of countries or regions that use Norse Flags. Match them with correct flag design on page 1! One has been done for you! A CALAIS, FRANCE E ICELAND I SAO PAULO, BRAZIL B DENMARK F NORWAY J SWEDEN C FAROE ISLANDS G ORKNEY, SCOTLAND K TILBURG, NETHERLANDS D FINLAND H PALOTINA, PARAGUAY L WEST RIDING, ENGLAND 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 size, what is the largest Scandinavian country? a: Greenland b: Sweden c: Finland 2: Which Scandinavian country has the highest GDP per person? a: Iceland b: Norway c: Sweden 3: In Old English, what does the word Viking (wicinga) mean? a: Raider b: Attacker c: Pirate 4: What period in history is commonly referred to as the Viking Era? a: 450-766 b: 790-1066 c: 1090-1266 5: Which city in the United States has an NFL franchise called the Vikings? a: Minnesota b: Miami c: Toronto 6: Which university in Sweden uncovered some Islamic Viking funeral clothes? a: Gothenburg b: Uppsala c: Stockholm E1: What Century did Islam begin? a: 5 th Century b: 6 th Century c: 7 th Century E2: What does Allah translate into in English? a: God b: Lord c: Father E3: Which flag below is not from Scandinavia? a: b: c: END OF PART 1
3 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 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. she was patterns Arabic Viking with Kufic the designs writing these the After Moorish Script comparing then fact realised in that 2 Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber After comparing these Pre-Listening / Reading 2 A2 True or False Read the headline of News Story ~ Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 5 are True or False! 1 Arabic writing script is called Kufic. [T] [F] 2 An Arabic burial chamber has been found in Sweden. [T] [F] 3 Uppsala is a city in the west of Sweden. [T] [F] 4 In Arabic the word God is translated as Allah. [T] [F] 5 Parts of Spain were under Islamic rule from the 8 th to 15 th Century. [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 Stunning 6 Script A Alluring F Cloths 2 Fragments 7 Garments B Forever G Scraps 3 Textiles 8 Eternal C Clothes H Scrutinise 4 Perplexing 9 Fascinating D Confusing I Characters 5 Investigate 10 Intriguing E Dazzling J Captivating END OF PART 2
Listening / Reading 4 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 PART 3 Listening Listening Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber 10 Mistakes Help Listen / Read the news story below circle the 10 words that are mistakes! 312 Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber 1 A stunning discovery by researchers at a university in Sweden has opened up questions about the influence of Islam on Viking culture. A team from the University of Uppsala in the west of Sweden discovered Arabic script on the funeral clothes of 9 th and 10 th Century Viking graves. After careful examination of the stuff, made from fine silk, the word Allah was found to be embroidered into the burial cloth. 2 The amazing breakthrough was made by Dr Annika Larsson, who is a water archaeologist at Uppsala University. After re-examining burial costumes from the Viking graves which had been kept in storage for more than a century, she realised the cloth originated in Central Asia, Persia or China. What was even more interesting and thus dull, was that the tiny Arabic script had never been found anywhere in Scandinavia before. 3 Only after Dr Larsson realised that she was not looking at traditional Viking patterns did she start to learn other ancient languages. I couldn t quite make sense of them, but then I remembered where I had seen similar designs in Spain and on Moorish Islamic textiles said Dr Larsson. After comparing these Moorish designs with the Viking patterns she then realised that the writing was in fact Arabic Kufic typing. 4 Kufic is the oldest calligraphic from of Arabic and was developed in the Iraqi town of Kufah in the 7 th Century. Yet previously it was believed that silk trainers found in Scandinavia were just the result of Viking raids. Dr Larsson believes that it is possible the Viking burial ceremony could even be influenced by Islamic customs. Presumably Viking Age burial customs were influenced by Islam and the idea of an internal life in Paradise after death concluded Dr Larson. 5 Even though contact between Viking and Islamic cultures has been established through previous archaeological research, what makes this discovery so scary is that it is the first time the word Allah or God has been discovered written in Arabic in Scandinavia. This opens up this impossible question How much of the Viking World was shaped by the Islamic customs, culture and faith? 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 [350 Words]
5 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 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 is the name of the researcher? Q2 What kind of Arabic script was used in the burial chamber? Q3 What centuries were the Viking burial chambers from? Q4 What material were the garments made from? Q5 What word was found woven into the garments? Q6 Which regions did the Islamic cloth originate in? E1 What is the name of the university? 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 7 th Century? A2 Kufah? A3 God? A4 Textile.? A5 Moors? END OF PART 4
English Extra I 6 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 PART 5 Extra Stuff Old Norse Words Used in Modern English The English language has some interesting words and phrases that use to explain a health or medical situation. Examples: Ransack Kindle = To search a house without care = To begin to burn, as combustible matter or flame. Can you match the phrase with the correct meaning? Old Norse Words Meanings & Examples 1 Ransack A A blue colouring matter. 2 Berserk B To wrangle, dispute, cavil or bargain. 3 Hell C To irritate, annoy or Exasperate. 4 Litmus D To search a house without care. 5 Muck E Decomposing or decaying / corrupt 6 Rotten F Cunning or wily 7 Mire G Limited, meagre or not large. 8 Haggle H Ground that is wet, slimy or swampy. 9 Kindle I A clumsy, stupid person; lout. 10 Sly J Filth, dirt or slime. 11 Scant K To go into a crazed frenzy 12 Oaf L To treat with disdain or contempt. 13 Snub M To begin to burn, as combustible matter or flame. 14 Irk N The underworld. 7 to Chinwag This Week s ENW Podcast ENW Podcast Topic Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber 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 box? 2 What do you know about Vikings? Why? 3 What historical period are you most interested in? Why? 4 Which is the most important historical period in your country s history? Why? 5 What do you know about Islamic culture? 6 Which historical period would you most like to visit? Give reasons why? EX FREE QUESTION!
Writing 7 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 This Week Choose one historical period that you would most like to spend one week living in. Which period would you choose and why would you like to live there for one week. Where would you go? What would you do? Why did you choose this period? END OF PART 5 And Finally U/V/W/X/Y/Z A4 Did You Know? The End
8 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 Visual TV Links YouTube (USA) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkpwwizdaq [04:14] Viking Islamic Burial YouTube (USA) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cydimjbewc [02:00] Islamic Relics Found in Viking Burial Chamber YouTube (USA) 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmblqlt2xks [05:12] Brief History of the Vikings 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 Greenland Warm Up 3 Norse Flags A / B / D all have Norse Flags 1 D 2 E 3 F 4 J 5 K 6 H 7 L 8 I 9 B 10 G 11 C 12 A A1 Warm Up 4 Quiz 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 B 5 A 6 B E1 C E2 A E3 B Answers Part 1 Warm Up 1-4 Jumbled Sentences After comparing these Moorish designs with the Viking patterns she then realised that the writing was in fact Arabic Kufic script. A2 True or False 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 T Synonyms 1 E 2 G 3 F 4 D 5 H 6 I 7 C 8 B 9 J 10 A
Answers Part 3 9 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 Listening 312 Arabic Text Uncovered in Viking Burial Chamber 1 A stunning discovery by researchers at a university in Sweden has opened up questions about the influence of Islam on Viking culture. A team from the University of Uppsala in the west of Sweden discovered Arabic script on the funeral clothes of 9 th and 10 th Century Viking graves. After careful examination of the fragments, made from fine silk, the word Allah was found to be embroidered into the burial cloth. 2 The amazing breakthrough was made by Dr Annika Larsson, who is a textile archaeologist at Uppsala University. After re-examining burial costumes from the Viking graves which had been kept in storage for more than a century, she realised the cloth originated in Central Asia, Persia or China. What was even more interesting and thus perplexing, was that the tiny Arabic script had never been found anywhere in Scandinavia before. 3 Only after Dr Larsson realised that she was not looking at traditional Viking patterns did she start to investigate other ancient languages. I couldn t quite make sense of them, but then I remembered where I had seen similar designs in Spain and on Moorish Islamic textiles said Dr Larsson. After comparing these Moorish designs with the Viking patterns she then realised that the writing was in fact Arabic Kufic script. 4 Kufic is the oldest calligraphic from of Arabic and was developed in the Iraqi town of Kufah in the 7 th Century. Yet previously it was believed that silk garments found in Scandinavia were just the result of Viking raids. Dr Larsson believes that it is possible the Viking burial ceremony could even be influenced by Islamic customs. Presumably Viking Age burial customs were influenced by Islam and the idea of an eternal life in Paradise after death concluded Dr Larson. 5 Even though contact between Viking and Islamic cultures has been established through previous archaeological research, what makes this discovery so fascinating is that it is the first time the word Allah or God has been discovered written in Arabic in Scandinavia. This opens up this intriguing question How much of the Viking World was shaped by Islamic customs, culture and faith? [350 Words] Answers Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading A3 Q & A 1 Dr Annika Larsson 5 Allah 2 Kufic 6 Central Asia / Persia / China 3 9 th & 10 th Century E1 University of Uppsala 4 Silk E2 One (1) A & Q Example Questions A1 What century did Kufic Arabic writing begin? A2 Which town in Iraq did Kufic writing begin? A3 How does Allah translate into English? A4 What type of archeologist is Dr Larsson? A5 Who controlled Spain for four centuries!
English Extra 10 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 1 D 4 A 7 H 10 F 13 L 2 K 5 J 8 B 11 G 14 C 3 N 6 E 9 M 12 I And Finally X & Z A4 U / V / W / X / Y / Z Extra Bit This Week s ENW Images
Episode 312 11 The English News Weekly Podcast Jaime Selwood 2017 MAIN PHOTO Still: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/141933825736650087/ LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nordic_cross_flag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comparison_of_the_nordic_countries http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41567391 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4972808/arabic-text-allah-uncovered- Viking-burial-clothing.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kufic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/viking-funeral-clothes-arabic-sweden-spd/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/vikings-allah-sweden.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4989382/viking-textile-no-arabic-slamsexpert.html