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1 SPECIAL EDITION TRAVEL PODCAST ENW...in Vienna! In this special edition podcast ENW visits four atmospheric locations from the capital of Austria - Vienna! ENW Episode 351 September

2 [1] Part 1 Topic Warm Ups ENW 351 Warm Up 1 Odd One Out Look at these 4 sporting teams. Which 1 is different from the other 3? Write your reason on the line below! If you don t know - GUESS! [Think this types of football..] Because A C B D Warm Up 2 Brainstorm Read the word in the box. How many different words can you connect to that word? Write as many different words / phrases as you can! Warm Up 3 Austria Locations Read the list of Austrian cities below. Then put them into the correct order by size of population! Number One should be fairly easy. Cities: The Correct Order 1: 1.85m 2: 274k 3: 199k 4: 149k 5: 127k 6: 98k 7: 161k

[2] Part 2 Pre-Listening / Reading ENW 351 Pre-Listening / Pre-Reading 1 Famous Vienna Locations The city

The city is a historical and cultural melting pot and has been a must visit for centuries.

A B C D E F 1: Prater Park 3: St Stephen s 5: Opera House 2: Schonbrunn 4: Hundertwasser 6: TV Tower

Can you choose the correct answers? If you don't know - use the Internet, ask a partner or GUESS!

a: 37m b: 57m c: 67m 3 How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Vienna?

a: Alemannic b: Bavarian c: Holstein 5 Who is the patron saint of Catalonia?

3 [2] Part 2 Pre-Listening / Reading ENW 351 Pre-Listening / Pre-Reading 1 Famous Vienna Locations The city of VIENNA is one of the most cultured in Europe. The city is a historical and cultural melting pot and has been a must visit for centuries. But, can you name some of the famous Vienna locations? A B C D E F 1: Prater Park 3: St Stephen s 5: Opera House 2: Schonbrunn 4: Hundertwasser 6: TV Tower Pre-Listening / Pre-Reading 2 Vienna Quiz Read the nine questions about Vienna. Can you choose the correct answers? If you don't know - use the Internet, ask a partner or GUESS! 1 What is the population of Vienna? a: 1.76m b: 2.76m c: 3.76m 2 What is the total yearly city budget? a: 37m b: 57m c: 67m 3 How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Vienna? a: Two b: Four c: Six 4 What is the official dialect of German in Vienna? a: Alemannic b: Bavarian c: Holstein 5 Who is the patron saint of Catalonia? a: Koloman b: Babenberg Margrave c: Jude 6 What is the name of the main Catholic Cathedral in Vienna? a: St Mark s b: St Peter s c: St Stephen s 7 Which is the most successful football team in Vienna? a: Rapid Wien b: Austria Wien c: Red Bull Salzburg 9: Which is the city flag for Vienna? 8 When did Vienna become Austria s capital city? a: 1719 b:1819 c: 1919 A B C

4 [3] Part 3 Reading & Listening 1 ENW 351 Location 1 3rd Man Museum Read the title for the 1st part of this special Vienna podcast! Next read the three statements below. What do you think is the answer? If you are not sure - GUESS! Choose YES' or NO! A: The Third Man was a movie first released in B: The Third Man is a private museum is open daily from 2pm-6pm. C: Graham Greene wrote the novella of the Third Man in Location 1 GAP FILL Read / Listen to Location 1. What is the correct answer for each space? Write one word in each space. Wandering the Streets of a Novel Good evening and welcome to Vienna! ENW is doing this travel podcast a little back to front as our first location is not in truth the 1: place we visited in the Austrian capital. The museum that we are kicking off our latest travel podcast with is actually the second spot we have visited on our two day trip. Why are we starting with the Third Man Museum then? Well 2: this is the most recently built of ENWs Vienna visits! So why has ENW decided to stop by this small, private museum that is only open for 4 hours every Saturday? Well quite simply it is one of our 3: movies and is also based on a 1949 novella by one of ENWs favourite authors - Grahame Greene. Both are set in a post-war 4: that is still ravaged by World War II. The story revolves around the mysterious Harry Lime, who may or may not have been killed in the city. The museum which opened in 2005, receives no financial support from the Austrian 5: and so the entrance fee of 8.90 seems quite reasonable. Inside are more than 3,000 exhibits including original scripts, posters, equipment and props from the 1949 movie. During ENWs visit there was also a special temporary exhibition that 6: the many other films that have been made in Vienna. OK, so for location 2 ENW is going to take you back to the start of our Q & A 1 How much is the ticket for the museum? 2 What is the name of the author? 3 What year was the film first released? 4 What is the only day of the week the museum is open? 5 What year did the museum first open?

5 [4] Location 2 Part 3 Reading & Listening 2 ENW 351 Wiener Riesenrad Read the title for the 2nd part of this special Vienna podcast! Next read the three statements below. What do you think is the answer? If you are not sure - GUESS! Choose YES' or NO! A: The Vienna Great Wheel is metres high. B: The ferris wheel is located in the Reisenrad Amusement Park. C: Between 1920 to 1987 the Great Wheel was the tallest in the world Location 2 Wrong Word! Read / Listen to Location 2. Circle the six mistakes in the text. Then write the correct words below. Above the Vienna Skyline. We have to begin this section of the podcast with an admission - ENW is not feeling the best this morning. We arrived late last night in Vienna, and the canalboat we booked for our 3 night stay, shall we say was problematic to get into! Anyway, so despite not having had very much sleep ENW is ready to visit out first location on our Vienna trip - in Location Two of the podcast! The Wiener Reisenrad, or Vienna Giant Wheel, is a metre tall ferris wheel at the entrance to the city s most famous and historical hunting park - the Prater. It is one of the city s most popular tourist attractions and was first built in Between 1920 and 1985 it was also the world s tallest ferris wheel before it was overtaken by the Cosmo Clock 21 in Seoul, Japan which stood at metres high. The wheel has also been used in many famous books including 1949s The Third Man and 1987s 007 adventure The Living Daylights. The ferris wheel is also quite cheap, with an adult ticket costing just 10. Although if you are so inclined you can purchase a private cabin for a candlelit dinner at 365 for 2 people! ENW is not that poor, so we will have to stick to the 10 ticket! Write the Correct Words! 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: Q & A 1 Which 007 movie used the ferris wheel as a backdrop? 2 How much does the candlelit dinner for two cost? 3 Which city is the Cosmo Clock 21 ferris wheel based in? 4 How many nights will ENW be staying in Vienna? 5 What year did the ferris wheel first open?

6 [5] Location 3 Part 3 Reading & Listening 3 ENW 351 Schönbrunn Palace Read the title for the 3rd part of this special Vienna podcast! Next read the three statements below. What do you think is the answer? If you are not sure - GUESS! Choose YES' or NO! A: The Schönbrunn Imperial Tour is 1hr 50 mins long. B: Mozart played at the palace for the first time when he was 6 y.o. C: The palace was built in the Italian inspired Baroque style. Location 3 Jumbled Paragraphs Read / Listen to Location 3. What is the correct order for the sentences in each paragraph. 1,441 Rooms in the Middle of Vienna (a) This is why ENW has travelled 25 minutes on the U4 Line in Vienna and paid our to gain entrance the Baroque-styled royal palace. (b) Initially built between 1638 to 1643 the palace of Schönbrunn, or beautiful spring in English, has had an important impact on European history over the centuries.(c) Welcome to ENWs third day in Vienna and this morning we are heading towards perhaps the most famous building in the city - the former royal palace of Schönbrunn. (a) ENW has plonked for the 50 minute Grand Tour which allows us to visit the state rooms, the private rooms of the Emperors and Empresses and also allows us to wander around the beautiful palace gardens. (b) We are also very keen to visit one room in particular, where in 1762 aged just 6 years old a certain Wolfgangus Mozart performed publicly for the first time.(c) Upon getting to Schönbrunn a traveller is faced with 3 tour options; The Imperial, The Grand or the Sissi. (a) OK, so where is the entrance? (b) Other important events that have occurred at Schönbrunn include the place where Napoleon lived after his conquest of Austria and the birth and death place of Franz Josef emperor of Austro-Hungary between 1848 to (c) In 1961 the Great Gallery room also hosted a meeting between US president Kennedy and USSR premier Nikita Kruschev. P 1: P 2: P 3: Q & A 1 How long does the Grand Tour take to complete? 2 What subway line did ENW take to get to Schönbrunn? 3 How old was Mozart when he played at the palace? 4 What was the name of the Soviet premier? 5 What year did Franz Josef become emperor?

[6] Part 3 Reading & Listening 4 ENW 351 Location 4 Vienna Opera House Read the title for the 4th part of this special Vienna podcast! Next read the three statements below.

7 [6] Part 3 Reading & Listening 4 ENW 351 Location 4 Vienna Opera House Read the title for the 4th part of this special Vienna podcast! Next read the three statements below. What do you think is the answer? If you are not sure - GUESS! Choose YES' or NO! A: The Vienna Opera House offers tickets for just 4. B: Der Freischütz is a 2hr 45 min opera in German. C: The opera can be read in up to six translated languages. Location 4 Which Word? Read / Listen to Location 4 Read the 7 words in the box and then put them in the correct place. 1 lovely 2 simple 3 watch 4 paddock 5 passable 6 bang 7 Marksman Boy Loves Girl but Problems with Demons When ENW is lucky enough to travel to a city around the world we are always looking for an interesting spot for our final location as we always like to go out with a 1:! Sometimes this is easy, other times more complicated. However, in Vienna the choice was very simple, ENW knew that we had to visit the Vienna Opera House, and if possible 2: an operatic performance there. Luckily for ENW there is an opera performance on our final night in the city. The 1821 German opera Der Freischütz or The 3: was being performed at the Vienna Opera House. The opera was written by composer Carl Maria von Weber and the story is quiet 4: ; a man loves a woman, but a demon, and then a betrayal by a friend create problems before help from an angel and the king means everything ends up happily ever after! Interestingly the section just to the right of ENW is the standing 5: where people can queue up and buy a ticket for just 4! Seating tickets ranged from 37 to 321, so ENW has plumped for one in the Balkon Halbmitte for 57. Now ENWs German is 6:, but not up to listening to a 2hr 45min opera in German! Thankfully each seat in the opera house has a screen with a translation offered in six languages - including English and Japanese! The only thing ENW now needs for a great night at the opera and a perfect end to our tip to Vienna is a 7: companion in a black evening dress! So, any offers? Q & A 1 Where is ENWs opera seat? 2 What is the name of the opera in English? 3 How much did ENWs ticket cost? 4 What year was the opera first performed? 5 What did ENW really want at the opera house?

8 [7] Part 4 Post Listening / Reading ENW 351 Writing Which One? Writing Which as your favourite Vienna location? Write as many reasons! Research the city and find TWO more locations you would like to visit. Write about your choices and explain why you chose them! And finally Did you Know..? (S) The cuckoo clock! (T) In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? (U) In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. (V) The Third Man that was released in 1949 has been hailed as the greatest British movie of the 20th Century? (W) Although as my German friends point out - the cuckoo clock is actually from there! (X) What is the quote? (Y) The Third Man is also one of ENWs favourite films (and books) and contains one of our top three movie quotes ever! (Z) In 1999 The British Film Institute placed the movie ahead of other classic British films such as Lawrence of Arabia, Trainspotting, The Bridge over the River Kwai, Get Carter and Chariots of Fire!

9 [8] ENW 351 Extra Video Links Vienna Locations Video 1 The Third Man Museum [04:54] About the Museum 2 Reisenrad [04:38] A Trip on Vienna s Giant Ferris Wheel 3 Schonbrunn Palace [13:02] A Tour of the Royal Summer Palace 4 Vienna Opera House [02:25] A Tour Inside the Vienna Opera House Vienna Extra 1 [01:34] The Third Man Movie Trailer Vienna Extra 2 [08:54] Prater Park in Vienna Vienna Extra 3 [05:05] How to Make Vienna Schnitzel Vienna Extra 4 [09:36] A Brief History of Vienna

10 [9] ENW 351 ANSWERS [A] Warm Up 1 B C & D are all football teams, A is an American football team called Vikings! Warm Up 3 Austrian Cities by Size 1: Vienna / 2: Graz / 3: Linz / 4: Salzburg / 5: Innsburck / 6: Klagenfurt / 7: Villach Pre - Listening 1 1: C / 2: D / 3: E / 4: A / 5: F / 6: B Pre - Listening 2 Quiz 1: A / 2: A / 3: A / 4: B / 5: B / 6: C / 7: B / 8: C / 9: C Location 1 The Third Man Museum Yes or No? A: YES B: NO C: YES Q & A 1: : Graham Greene 3: : Saturday 5: 2005 Wandering the Streets of a Novel Good evening and welcome to Vienna! ENW is doing this travel podcast a little back to front as our first location is not in truth the first place we visited in the Austrian capital. The museum that we are kicking off our latest travel podcast with is actually the second spot we have visited on our two day trip. Why are we starting with the Third Man Museum then? Well chronologically this is the most recently built of ENWs Vienna visits! So why has ENW decided to stop by this small, private museum that is only open for 4 hours every Saturday? Well quite simply it is one of our favourite movies and is also based on a 1949 novella by one of ENWs favourite authors - Grahame Greene. Both are set in a post-war Vienna that is still ravaged by World War II. The story revolves around the mysterious Harry Lime, who may or may not have been killed in the city. The museum which opened in 2005, receives no financial support from the Austrian state and so the entrance fee of 8.90 seems quite reasonable. Inside are more than 3,000 exhibits including original scripts, posters, equipment and props from the 1949 movie. During ENWs visit there was also a special temporary exhibition that chronicled the many other films that have been made in Vienna. OK, so for location 2 ENW is going to take you back to the start of our trip! Location 2 Reisenrad Yes or No? A: YES B: NO C: NO Q & A 1: The Living Daylights 2: 365 3: Yokohama 4: Three nights 5: 1897 Above the Vienna Skyline We have to begin this section of the podcast with an admission - ENW is not feeling the best this morning. We arrived late last night in Vienna, and the apartment we booked for our 3 night stay, shall we say was problematic to get into! Anyway, so despite not having had very much sleep ENW is ready to visit out first location on our Vienna trip - in Location Two of the podcast! The Wiener Reisenrad, or Vienna Giant Wheel, is a metre tall ferris wheel at the entrance to the city s most famous and historical amusement park - the Prater. It is one of the city s most popular tourist attractions and was first built in Between 1920 and 1985 it was also the world s tallest ferris wheel before it was overtaken by the Cosmo Clock 21 in Yokohama, Japan which stood at metres high. The wheel has also been used in many famous movies including 1949s The Third Man and 1987s 007 adventure The Living Daylights. The ferris wheel is also quite cheap, with an adult ticket costing just 10. Although if you are so inclined you can purchase a private cabin for a candlelit dinner at 365 for 2 people! ENW is not that rich, so we will have to stick to the 10 ticket!

perhaps the most famous building in the city - the former royal palace of Schönbrunn.

11 Location 3 Schonbrunn Palace Yes or No? A: NO B: YES C: YES Q & A 1: 50 minutes 2: U4 3: Six years-old 4: Kruschev 5: ,441 Rooms in the Middle of Vienna (c) Welcome to ENWs third day in Vienna and this morning we are heading towards perhaps the most famous building in the city - the former royal palace of Schönbrunn. (b) Initially built between 1638 to 1643 the palace of Schönbrunn, or beautiful spring in English, has had an important impact on European history over the centuries. (a) This is why ENW has travelled 25 minutes on the U4 Line in Vienna and paid our to gain entrance the Baroque-styled royal palace. (c) Upon getting to Schönbrunn a traveller is faced with three tour options; The Imperial, The Grand or the Sissi. (a) ENW has plonked for the 50 minute Grand Tour which allows us to visit the state rooms, the private rooms of the Emperors and Empresses and also allows us to wander around the beautiful palace gardens. (b) We are also very keen to visit one room in particular, where in 1762 aged just 6 years old a certain Wolfgangus Mozart performed publicly for the first time. (b) Other important events that have occurred at Schönbrunn include the place where Napoleon lived after his conquest of Austria and the birth and death place of Franz Josef emperor of Austro-Hungary between 1848 to (c) In 1961 the Great Gallery room also hosted a meeting between US president Kennedy and USSR premier Nikita Kruschev. (a) OK, so where is the entrance? Location 4 Vienna Opera House Yes or No? A: YES B: YES C: YES Q & A 1: Balkon Halbmitte 2: The Marksman 3: 57 4: : A lovely companion! Boy Loves Girl but Problems with Demons When ENW is lucky enough to travel to a city around the world we are always looking for an interesting spot for our final location as we always like to go out with a bang! Sometimes this is easy, other times more complicated. However, in Vienna the choice was very simple, ENW knew that we had to visit the Vienna Opera House, and if possible watch an operatic performance there. Luckily for ENW there is an opera performance on our final night in the city. The 1821 German opera Der Freischütz or The Marksman was being performed at the Vienna Opera House. The opera was written by composer Carl Maria von Weber and the story is quiet simple; a man loves a woman, but a demon, and then a betrayal by a friend create problems before help from an angel and the king means everything ends up happily ever after! Interestingly the section just to the right of ENW is the standing paddock where people can queue up and buy a ticket for just 4! Seating tickets ranged from 37 to 321, so ENW has plumped for one in the Balkon Halbmitte for 57. Now ENWs German is passable, but not up to listening to a 2hr 45min opera in German! Thankfully each seat in the opera house has a screen with a translation offered in six languages - including English and Japanese! The only thing ENW now needs for a great night at the opera and a perfect end to our tip to Vienna is a lovely companion in a black evening dress! So, any offers? And Finally V / Z / Y / X / U / T / S / W The End of English New Weekly Podcast

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