The most influential City in the world

THE ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY PODCAST 23/10/2015 OCTOBER 1 of 12 Most of Influential City 23 2015 EPISODE 217 FLASHBACK - ENW 171: THE SCENT GLOBE The most influential City in the world ENW 217 Introduction The most visited city in the world is Paris. The friendliest is Copenhagen. The richest is New York. The biggest is Tokyo and San Pedro Sula in Honduras is the most violent. But which iconic world city is the most influential city in the world? Well according to Forbes Magazine the most influential is also one of the world s oldest. Which one? English News Weekly explains all HOMEPAGE http://pod.flare.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/cms/ FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/enw1975 TWITTER twitter.com/enwpodcast (c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 217 WORLD NEWS

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 2 of 12 ENW 213 Contents Page Part One Warm Ups Warm Up 1 Odd-One-Out Page 3 Warm Up 2 Brainstorm Page 3 Warm Up 3 What Do You Think? Page 3/4 Warm Up 4 Quiz Page 4 Part Two Before Listening / Reading Pre 1 Jumbled Words Page 5 Pre 2 True or False Page 5 Pre 3 Vocabulary Synonyms Page 5 Part Three Listening / Reading ENW News Story 372 Words Page 6 Part Four Post Listening / Reading Post 1 Question & Answer Page 7 Post 2 Answer & Question Page 7 Part Five Extra Activities English Extra Phrases, Idioms & Expressions Page 8 Speaking 7 To Chinwag Page 8 Writing What Do You Think? Page 9 Part Six Links & Answers And Finally Did You Know? Page 9 Speaking TV Links Page 10 The Answers

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 3 of 12 Hotel of bones Part 1 Warm Ups Warm Up 1 Odd One Out Look at the four words below, which word is different from the other three? Write your reason on the line. You can check your ideas in the answer! My Reasons(s) Warm Up 2 Brainstorm How many different words / ideas can you link to the word in the brainstorm? Try to write 10+ words / ideas! Power - - - - Money Cash Warm Up 3 Most Influential World Cities Look at the list of the 12 most influential cities in the world. Can you guess the city from the the city s silhouette outline on page 4? 1 BEIJING 5 LOS ANGELES 9 SINGAPORE 2 DUBAI 6 NEW YORK 10 SYDNEY 3 HONG KONG 7 PARIS 11 TOKYO J 4 LONDON 8 SAN FRANCISCO 12 TORONTO

of 12 4 Most of Influential City 23/10/2015 City Outlines Which City..? Look at page 3 to match the outline with the city! One city has been done for you! A B C D G H I J E F K L Warm Up 4 [A1] Quiz Read the questions about this week s news story. Remember if you don t know the answer - use the Internet or Guess! 1: What city is the richest in the world? A: Singapore B: New York C: Hong Kong 2: What city is the most 3: What magazine analyses dangerous to live in? the most influential city list? A: Mexico City A: Forbes B: Washington DC B: Time C: San Pedro Sula C: The Economist 4: What capital city is the 5: What is the oldest capital 6: What is the poorest city in largest in the world? (population) city in the world? the world? A: Tokyo A: London A: Freetown B: New Delhi B: Damascus B: Harare C: Mexico City C: Jerusalem C: Monrovia E1: What is the population of E2: Which city was the most London? influential in 2014 & 2013? A: 7.27m A: New York B: 8.27m B: Singapore C: 9.27m C: London (c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 217 E3: Which city is Forbes Magazine based in? A: New York B: New Jersey C: Los Angeles WORLD NEWS

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 5 of 12 Pre 1 Part 2 Before listening The sentence below is from a paragraph in the news story. Un-jumble the words and put them into the correct order. ENW 215 Pre 2 [A2] London Tops the City List Again! Jumbled Sentences True or False Read the headlines from ENW 217 news story - London Tops the City List Again Look at the 5 statements. Do you think they are TRUE or FALSE? 1 Forbes is a business magazine based in the United States. [T] [F] 2 3 London Airport is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom. 4 5 58 cities were analysed to find the most influential city in the world. Three European cities are included on the Most Influential List. New York is the cultural capital of the English language. [T] [F] [T] [F] [T] [F] [T] [F] Pre 3 An antonym is a word with an opposite meaning. Antonyms Match the 10 words on the left with their antonyms on the right. 1 2 3 4 Most Influential Including Busiest 6 7 8 9 Narrowly Global Welcomed Higher A B C D Idle Exited Dissent Trivial F G H I Local Excluding Lower Least 5 Diversity 10 Agreement E Uniformity J Carelessly

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 6 of 12 Part 3 Warm Ups Listening / Reading [A3] ENW 217 Listen / Read this week's news story and check your understanding Read the news story and choose the correct answer from the three choices! 217 London Tops The City List Again 1 For the fourth year in a row the most influential city in the world is London - according to the 1: magazine Forbes it s the British capital city. Joel Kotkin an urban demographer and Wendell Cox a financial analyst assessed 58 cities around the world in their 2015 Most Influential City list. They analysed the cities in eight different categories including air-travel, financial services, 2:, media power and racial diversity. After everything was completed 3: once again was placed first on the list. 2 Mr Kotkin writing in of Forbes magazine declared, The U.K. may now be a second-rate power, but London is the preferred city for the global 4: to live in as well as an important international media, technology, advertising, legal and cultural hub. Another important factor was London s position as the historic centre of the English language. A further factor that helped make London Number One were the number of international 5: connections through the city. London has five international airports with Heathrow Airport the 4th busiest in the world. Every day around 200,000 passengers go through Heathrow with on average one aeroplane taking off every 45 6:. 3 New York was narrowly beaten into second place on the Forbes list, but the city was declared to be a global leader in finance, media, sport, fashion and advertising. Paris finished 3rd on the list, but with London was one of only two 7: cities to make the top 12. Tokyo was placed 5th but is still seen as Asia s most influential city despite 8: being ranked one place higher in 4th. The other cities that completed the list were Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing, Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto. 4 Forbes report was welcomed by London 9: Boris Johnson who this week was in Tokyo signing a friendship agreement with Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe. The new agreement will see the two cities 10: in areas such as culture, tourism and sports. Speaking at a press conference Governor Masuzoe said he hoped Tokyo could learn from London s position as the world s most influential city. Tokyo will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Olympic Games - two 11: London has hosted in the last three years. 372 Words

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 7 of 12 Post 1 [A4] Part 4 Post Listening How much do you remember from the news story? Read / Listen to the questions below and write the correct answer. Q & A Q1 What is the name of the London mayor? Q2 What year will Japan host the rugby world cup? Q3 How many years has London been voted the Most Influential City? Q4 What city was placed 5th on the list? Q5 How many passengers pass through Heathrow Airport daily? Q6 What job title does Yoichi Masuzoe have? E1 How many journalists wrote the Most Influential City List? E2 How many cities are in the news story? Post 2 Read the answers below - what do you think could be a correct question? A & Q Hint: There is more than one possible answer! A1 12. A2 A3 A4 8. New York 2020. A5 5.

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 8 of 12 English Words+ Part 5 Extra Stuff English phrases that use top The English language has different types of words and phrases that mean safety or danger. Read the examples below to help with your understanding. Examples: Big top = A circus Top of the food chain = The position of most importance/infuence. Match the shock & surprise phrases with their correct situation! 1 A: From the highest point to the lowest point 2 B: To reach a prestigious level of something 3 C: To be successful by being aggressive. 4 D: To do something without thinking before. 5 E: It means a circus. 6 F: Something that costs a lot of money. 7 G: The boss / People who are in charge 8 H: To get angry very quickly. 9 I: A man who is going bald / losing his hair 10 J: The position of most importance/influence in a 11 K: The highest level in business or sport. 12 L: To feel fantastically. 7 to Chinwag This Week s Podcast Topic Ask your partner(s) the following questions - remember to give detailed answers. 1: What did yo think when you read this week s title? 4: Which city you've been to is the worst? Why? 2: Which do you think is the most influential city? Why? 5: What city do you think is the most beautiful? Why? 3: Which is the best city in the world you have been to? Why? 6: Which city have you had the most fun in? Why? 7: FREE QUESTION - What question would you like to ask? Why?

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 9 of 12 Writing This Week Imagine you could travel to any city on the 12 Most Influential List. Which city would you visit? What would you do there? Who would you go with? Write your reasons below and explain why? And Finally [A5] Did You That Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, owns the copyright to Peter Pan and receives royalties from all associated works and performances. Every movie, x:, theatre performance or music about the characters in Peter Pan must pay the hospital a percentage of their profits. The hospital is one of the most famous children s hospitals in the world and the author of Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie - who didn't have any z: - gifted the Peter Pan rights to the hospital in 1929.

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 10 of 12 Visual NDTV India Video Links 1: http://goodtimes.ndtv.com/videos/world-influential-cities-limitless-london-366585 [2:21] London s World Influence You Tube USA 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmofushrhkk [1:27] Forbes Magazine Billionaires You Tube USA 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ms0dktclo [2:01] 10 Quirky Facts About London Answers part 1 Warm up 1-4 Warm Up 1 Odd One Out B - London A / C / D - are city states, independent countries as well as cities. Warm Up 3 Most Influential Cities 1 - E 4 - K 7 - I 10 - C 2 - A 5 - F 8 - B 11 - J 3 - G 6 - H 9 - L 12 - D Warm Up 4 Quiz 1 - B 2 - C 3 - A 4 - A 5 - B 6 - C E1 - B E2 - C E3 - B Answers Part 2 PRE 1-3 Pre 1 Jumbled Sentences For the fourth year in a row the most influential city in the world is London. Pre 2 True or False 1 - T 2 - T 3 - F 4 - F 5 - F Pre 3 Antonyms 1 - I 2 - D 3 - G 4 - A 5 - E 6 - J 7 - F 8 - B 9 - H 10 - C

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City 11 of 12 Answers Part 3 News Story 217 London Tops The City List Again 1 For the fourth year in a row the most influential city in the world is London - according to the business magazine Forbes it s the British capital city. Joel Kotkin an urban demographer and Wendell Cox a financial analyst assessed 58 cities around the world in their 2015 Most Influential City list. They analysed the cities in eight different categories including air-travel, financial services, technology, media power and racial diversity. After everything was completed London once again was placed first on the list. 2 Mr Kotkin writing in of Forbes magazine declared, The U.K. may now be a second-rate power, but London is the preferred city for the global rich to live in as well as an important international media, technology, advertising, legal and cultural hub. Another important factor was London s position as the historic centre of the English language. A further factor that helped make London Number One were the number of international aeroplane connections through the city. London has five international airports with Heathrow Airport the 4th busiest in the world. Every day around 200,000 passengers go through Heathrow with on average one aeroplane taking off every 45 seconds. 3 New York was narrowly beaten into second place on the Forbes list, but the city was declared to be a global leader in finance, media, sport, fashion and advertising. Paris finished 3rd on the list, but with London was one of only two European cities to make the top 12. Tokyo was placed 5th but is still seen as Asia s most influential city despite Singapore being ranked one place higher in 4th. The other cities that completed the list were Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing, Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto. 4 Forbes report was welcomed by London Mayor Boris Johnson who this week was in Tokyo signing a friendship agreement with Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe. The new agreement will see the two cities cooperate in areas such as culture, tourism and sports. Speaking at a press conference Governor Masuzoe said he hoped Tokyo could learn from London s position as the world s most influential city. Tokyo will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup & the 2020 Olympic Games - two tournaments London has hosted in the last 3 years. Answers Part 4 POST 1-2 Post 1 Q & A 1: Boris Johnstone E1: Two 2: 2019 E2: 12 Countries 3: 4 Years 4: Tokyo 5: 200,000 6: Tokyo Governor Post 2 A & Q 1: How many countries on the list? 2: How many categories are used for analysis? 3: Which city was 2nd on the list? 4: What year will Tokyo host the Olympics? 5: How many airports does London have? English Extra English Extra 1 - E 2 - J 3 - H 4 - B 5 - L 6 -A 7 - D 8 - F 9 - K 10 - G 11 - I 12 - C X & Z X: book Z: children

23/10/2015 Most of Influential City of 12 12 PHOTOS ENW 217 References ENW 217 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2015-1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-tops-forbes-list-of-the-worlds-mostinfluential-cities-in-2014-9676264.html http://borgenproject.org/poorest-city-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_the_world%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic http://www.heathrow.com/company/company-news-and-information/company-information/ facts-and-figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/forbes http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-tops-forbes-list-of-the-worlds-mostinfluential-cities-in-2014-9676264.html http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/03/sorry-london-new-york-is-the-worlds-most-economicallypowerful-city/386315/ http://www.realclearworld.com/lists/most_important_cities_in_the_world/ http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/54-amazing-facts-about-london-that-will-blow-yourmind#.fwxmxk5yz (c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 217 WORLD NEWS