SPECIAL EDITION TRAVEL PODCAST ENW...in Madrid! +P VJKU URGEKCN GFKVKQP RQFECUV '09 XKUKVU HQWT KPURKTKPI NQECVKQPU HTQO VJG GPVJTCNNKPI ECRKVCN QH 5RCKP /CFTKF ENW Episode 285 March 24 2017
[1] Part 1 Topic Warm Ups ENW 285 Warm Up 1 Odd One Out Look at these 4 regional flags Which 1 is different from the other 3? Write your reason on the line below! If you don t know - GUESS! Because Warm Up 2 A C B D 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 Spanish Cities by Size! Read the list of Spanish cities below. Then put them into the correct order by size of population! Number 1 is quite easy and Number 3 is another ENW podcast travel city!
[2] Part 2 Pre-Listening / Reading ENW 285 Pre-Listening / Pre-Reading 1 Famous Madrid Locations The city of Madrid is one of the most colourful and entertaining cities in the world. The Spanish capital city has many interesting and quirky things to do and see. But, can you name some of the famous Madrid locations? A B C D E F 1: Ghost Station 3: Temple of Debod 5: The Prado Museum 2: Guernica 4: Bernabeu Stadium 6: Sobrino s Nephew Pre-Listening / Pre-Reading 2 Madrid Quiz Read the sight questions about Madrid below. Can you choose the correct answers? If you don't know - use the Internet, ask a partner or GUESS! 1: What is the current population of Madrid? a: 4.2m b: 5.2m c: 6.2m 2: How many major bridges are in Madrid? a: 4 b: 6 c: 8 3: What language does the word Madrid originate? a: Spanish b: Latin c: Arabic 4: What is the biggest city in the E.U.? (as of 2017) a: London b: Madrid c: Berlin 5: How many metres above sea level is Madrid? a: 567 m b: 667 m c: 767 m 7: What year was Madrid was founded? a: 760 AD b: 860 AD c: 960 AD 8: What is the oldest football team in Madrid? a: Real b: Rayo Vallenco c: Athletico 6: What animal is the symbol of Madrid? a: Snake b: Cat c: Bear 9: Which is the badge of Athletico Madrid?
[3] Part 3 Reading & Listening 1 ENW 285 Location 1 Del Prado Read the title for the 1st part of this special MADRID 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 Prado Museum only has historical artefacts from across Spain. B: Banco de Espana is a metro station in Madrid. C: The Prado Museum contains around 7,600 paintings. Location 1 GAP FILL Read / Listen to Location 1. What is the correct answer for each space? Write one word in each space. A Great Art Museum Hello and welcome to Madrid! It is a lovely 1: morning in the Spanish capital and ENW has just alighted from the metro at the Banco de Espana metro station and have a 15 min walk before we reach our first location on this Madrid trip. Where is ENW heading this late March morning? Well, we are going to one of the world s great 2: museums - The Prado. Museo del Prado is the national art museum for Spain and was first opened in 1819. 198 years ago the museum only had a 3: of 1,500 paintings. Today the collection consists of 7,600 paintings and more than 1,000 4:. Included in the museum are works from Goya, Raphael, Ruebens, El Greco, Rembrandt, Poussin and Lorrain. The painting that ENW really wants to see today was painted in 1634-35 by Diego Velazquez and is titled The Surrender at Breda. It has been described as one of the most 5: of all pictures and is a painting of the Siege of Breda in Holland in 1624. To avoid the long queues ENW has already paid 24,00 for our ticket and guidebook at The Prado website. So, as we enter the museum ENW must stop 6: so we hope to catch you later after we have finished our museum visit. Q & A 1 What year did The Prado first open? 2 How many painters are named in Location 1? 3 Which painting does ENW want to see? 4 How much was the entry ticket + guidebook? 5 What season is it in Madrid?
[4] Location 2 Part 3 Reading & Listening 2 ENW 285 Santiago Bernabéu Read the title for the 2nd part of this special MADRID 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: ENW is going to watch Real Madrid play at home. B: The Real Madrid Stadium tour will last for 80 minutes. C: Real Madrid calls itself the greatest club team 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. A Football Cathedral You join ENW at just after 4:30am on our first day in Madrid and ENW is again walking away from a metro station. But, this time we are not going to visit a museum, but to go on a tour of one of the most famous football venues in the world - the Santiago Bernabeu. The 81, 000 seat stadium is home to Real Madrid, the most successful team in world history and the winner of 11 European Cups/Champions Leagues. Sadly, there is no home game this week so ENW cannot watch a game, but instead will pay 18 and go on an 80 minute tour of the stadium and club museum. Real Madrid likes to call itself the best club history, but ENW cannot agree with that! Obviously the team from the blue side of Manchester is by far the greatest! Maybe. But ENW is looking forward to visiting the stadium and in particular the team dressing room and the trophy room - with replicas of all the European Cups that Real have won. In total the tour includes 100 stops so ENW must get a move on. Of course we are wearing a United scarf Write the Correct Words! 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: Q & A 1 How many European Cups have Real Madrid won? 2 Which football team does ENW support? 3 What is the capacity of the Bernabeu stadium? 4 How much did the museum / stadium ticket cost? 5 What is the time of day?
[5] Location 3 Part 3 Reading & Listening 3 ENW 285 Temple of Debod Read the title for the 3rd part of this special MADRID 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: Amun is an Ancient Egyptian god. B: The Parque del Oeste is in the west of Madrid. C: The Temple of Debod was bought for 12m in 1970. Location 3 Jumbled Paragraphs Read / Listen to Location 3. What is the correct order for the sentences in each paragraph. Ancient Egypt in Madrid (c) Good morning and you find a sleepy ENW on our 2nd morning in Madrid. (b) It is just past 8:15am and we have again travelled by metro - this time to the Ventura Rodriguez Station in the west of the city. (a) This morning, despite being in one of the great cities of Europe, ENW is travelling back 4,000 years and a shrine to the Egyptian God Amun. (b) Located in the Parque del Oeste, or Western Park, near the Spanish Royal Palace is the Temple of Debod an ancient Egyptian shrine that was originally built in the 2nd Century BC. (c) The temple used to sit in the Debod Valley in southern Egypt, but due to the construction of the huge Aswan Dam the temple was moved or it would permanently be under water. (a) It was donated to Madrid and first opened to the public in 1972 and is the only piece of ancient Egyptian architecture in Spain. (c) The Temple of Debod is located in the south of the Parque del Oeste and the ruins sit in the middle of a shimmering pool that reflects the sun and gives the stones a magical morning feeling. (a) The temple is free to visit and at this early time there are only a few people in the park, walking dogs or going for a run. (b) ENW is starting to feel peckish and so is off to find the nearest cafe where we might indulge in a couple of churros and a cup of hot chocolate. P 1: P 2: P 3: Q & A 1 What time is it in Madrid? 2 What is the name of the park? 3 When was the temple opened to the public? 4 Wy did the temple move to Madrid? 5 How old is the temple?
[6] Part 3 Reading & Listening 4 ENW 285 Location 4 Oldest Restaurant in the World Read the title for the 4th part of this special MADRID 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: Ernest Hemingway wrote a book about Sobrino de Botin. B: The Sobrino de Botin first opened in 1725. C: The restaurant s signature dish is roast pig. 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 signature 2 fancier 3 couple 4 splash 5 prepared 6 breathtaking 7 Nephew A Very Old Eatery The final location on ENWs trip to Madrid takes us again into the past - although only back a couple of hundred years instead of 4,000! After a lovely day wandering around Madrid, including a visit to the Reina Sofia Museum to take-in Picasso s 1: Guernica, we are lining up outside a 292 yearold restaurant only a 2: of kilometres away from the Temple of Debod. It is just after 9pm in the evening and ENW is in a line outside the Sobrino de Botin, or Botin s 3: in English. The eatery is the oldest in Spain, and perhaps the oldest in the world as it first opened in 1725. The 4: dish of the restaurant is roast pig that is 5: in a huge brick oven. The restaurant is very popular and ENW has been lucky to find a small table, although we are still waiting outside and is starting to get quite hungry! The restaurant occupies four floors of a building ranging from a simple brick basement to the 6: and more expensive Felipe IV room. The restaurant became famous when American writer Ernest Hemingway included it in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises about British and American expatriates visiting Spain. As it is ENWs last night in Madrid we might 7: out a little on a nice bottle of Spanish red wine perhaps even a Valdepeñas - Hemingway s favourite. Right, where is our credit card and how much is 75 in yen? Q & A 1 What is the name of the novel? 2 How much is the bottle of red wine? 3 What year did the restaurant first open? 4 What is the name of the famous painting? 5 How far is the restaurant from the Temple of Debod?
[7] Part 4 Post Listening / Reading ENW 285 Writing Which One? Writing Which as your favourite Madrid location? Why? Write as many reasons! Research Hawaii 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..? That even though The Prado Museum is the national art gallery of Spain perhaps the country s most famous x: is not displayed there? Guernica by Pablo Picasso a painting created in response to the bombing of the small Basque village of Guenica by National forces during the Spanish y: War. Picasso, an avowed Republican refused to have the painting displayed in Spain until public liberties and democratic institutions returned. Between 1939-1981 the painting was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. However in 1981, eight years after Picasso had died and with Spain a democracy again the painting was returned and displayed in The Prado Museum. Yet it moved again in 1992 to the Reina Sofia Museum 800 z: from The Prado. It is now too fragile to move again.
[8] ENW 285 Extra Video Links Madrid Locations Video 1 The Prado Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7nmv8tqbhw [04:47] History of the Spanish Art Museum 2 Santiago Bernabeu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4fb8wvyacy [04:43] History of the Stadium 3 The Oldest restaurant in the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oztcm--t8w [03:33] Sobrino de Botin 4 Temple of Debod https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkwggde6ow [02:36] Ancient Egypt in Madrid Madrid Extra 1 History of Madrid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlga7l_fqy0 [26:01] Vacation Travel Guide: Madrid Madrid Extra 2 Food of Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7bwipcx6zq [01:26] Top 10 Spanish Dishes Madrid Extra 3 Ernest Hemingway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jqde0gcnhg [03:38] Mini Biography Madrid Extra 4 Land and Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdozohdazlq [02:05] Trailer
[9] ENW 285 ANSWERS Warm Up 1 [C] A B & D are all regional flags from Spain. C - is the flag of Northumberland. Warm Up 3 Spanish Cities by Size 1: Madrid, 2: Barcelona 3: Valencia, 4: Seville, 5: Bilbao, 6: Malaga, 7: Oviedo, 8: Alicante Pre - Listening 1 1: F / 2: D / 3: E / 4: C / 5: B / 6: A Pre - Listening 2 Quiz 1: B / 2: A / 3: C / 4: A / 5: B / 6: C / 7 - B / 8 - A / 9 - C Location 1 The Prado Yes or No? A: NO B: YES C: YES Q & A 1: 1819 2: 8 3: Surrender at Breda 4: 24 5: Spring A Great Art Museum Hello and welcome to Madrid! It is a lovely Spring morning in the Spanish capital and ENW has just alighted from the metro at the Banco de Espana metro station and have a 15 min walk before we reach our first location on this Madrid trip. Where is ENW heading this late March morning? Well, we are going to one of the world s great art museums - The Prado. Museo del Prado is the national art museum for Spain and was first opened in 1819. 198 years ago the museum only had a collection of 1,500 paintings. Today the collection consists of 7,600 paintings and more than 1,000 sculptures. Included in the museum are works from Goya, Raphael, Ruebens, El Greco, Rembrandt, Poussin and Lorrain. The painting that ENW really wants to see today was painted in 1634-35 by Diego Velazquez and is titled The Surrender at Breda. It has been described as one of the most Spanish of all pictures and is a painting of the Siege of Breda in Holland in 1624. To avoid the long queues ENW has already paid 24,00 for our ticket and guidebook at The Prado website. So, as we enter the museum ENW must stop recording so we hope to catch you later after we have finished are museum visit. Location 2 Santiago Bernabeu Yes or No? A: NO B: YES C: NO Q & A 1: 11 2: Manchester United 3: 81,000 4: 18 5: 4:30pm A Football Cathedral You join ENW at just after 4:30pm on our first day in Madrid and ENW is again walking away from a metro station. But, this time we are not going to visit a museum, but to go on a tour of one of the most famous football stadiums in the world - the Santiago Bernabeu. The 81, 000 seat stadium is home to Real Madrid, the most successful team in European history and the winner of 11 European Cups/Champions Leagues. Sadly, there is no home game this week so ENW cannot watch a game, but instead will pay 18 and go on an 80 minute tour of the stadium and club museum. Real Madrid likes to call itself the best club history, but ENW cannot agree with that! Obviously the team from the red side of Manchester is by far the greatest! Maybe. But ENW is looking forward to visiting the stadium and in particular the team dressing room and the trophy room - with replicas of all the European Cups that Real have won. In total the tour includes 10 stops so ENW must get a move on. Of course we are wearing a United scarf
Location 3 Temple of Debod Yes or No? A: YES B: YES C: NO Q & A 1: 08:15 2: Parque del Oeste 3: 1972 4: Aswan Dam 5: 4,000 Ancient Egypt in Madrid (c) Good morning and you find a sleepy ENW on our 2nd morning in Madrid. (b) It is just past 8:15am and we have again travelled by metro - this time to the Ventura Rodriguez Station in the west of the city. (a) This morning, despite being in one of the great cities of Europe, ENW is travelling back 4,000 years and a shrine to the Egyptian God Amun. (b) Located in the Parque del Oeste, or Western Park, near the Spanish Royal Palace is the Temple of Debod an ancient Egyptian shrine that was originally built in the 2nd Century BC. (c) The temple used to sit in the Debod Valley in southern Egypt, but due to the construction of the huge Aswan Dam the temple was moved or it would permanently be under water. (a) It was donated to Madrid and first opened to the public in 1972 and is the only piece of ancient Egyptian architecture in Spain. (c) The Temple of Debod is located in the south of the Parque del Oeste and the ruins sit in the middle of a shimmering pool that reflects the sun and gives the stones a magical morning feeling. (a) The temple is free to visit and at this early time there are only a few people in the park, walking dogs or going for a run. (b) ENW is starting to feel peckish and so is off to find the nearest cafe where we might indulge in a couple of churros and a cup of hot chocolate. Location 4 The Oldest Restaurant in the World! Yes or No? A: NO B: YES C: YES Q & A 1: The Sun Also Rises 2: 75 3: 1725 4: Guernica 5: 2 km A Very Old Eatery The final location on ENWs trip to Madrid takes us again into the past - although only back a couple of hundred years instead of 4,000! After a lovely day wandering around Madrid, including a visit to the Reina Sofia Museum to take-in Picasso s breathtaking Guernica, we are lining up outside a 292 year-old restaurant only a couple of kilometres away from the Temple of Debod. It is just after 9pm in the evening and ENW is in a line outside the Sobrino de Botin, or Botin s Nephew in English. The eatery is the oldest in Spain, and perhaps the oldest in the world as it first opened in 1725. The signature dish of the restaurant is roast pig that is prepared in a huge brick oven. The restaurant is very popular and ENW has been lucky to find a small table, although we are still waiting outside and is starting to get quite hungry! The restaurant occupies four floors of a building ranging from a simple brick basement to the fancier and more expensive Felipe IV room. The restaurant became famous when American writer Ernest Hemingway included it in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises about British and American expatriates visiting Spain. As it is ENWs last night in Madrid we might splash out a little on a nice bottle of Spanish red wine perhaps even a Valdepeñas - Hemingway s favourite. Right, where is our credit card and how much is 75 in yen? And Finally X: painting Y: Civil Z: metres The End of English New Weekly Podcast Other ENW Travel podcasts include: London, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Paris, Milan, Venice, Rome, Brussels, Hamburg, Berlin, Athens, Istanbul, Cyprus, Copenhagen, Dublin, Northumberland, Mt Saint Michel, Valencia and Hawaii!