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ENW 226 Christmas Special Happy Christmas for us here are ENW podcast. We hope you are

enjoying the winter holidays and are having time to relax. This

week is a special edition ENW podcast – focusing on Christmas

music. First we introduce a famous Christmas carol, next is one

of the biggest selling songs in history and finally a song that

helped change the world. What to know more…

English News Weekly will explain all…

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EPISODE 226

2015

It’s Christmas Time!

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[201512-04] | A Wonderful Christmas Time | December 25th

2015

| 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) Band Aid b) Bing Crosby c) The Beatles d) Ethiopia

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?

|Christmas Music|

Warm Up | 3 Christmas No1 Songs

In the UK – the number 1 song at Christmas is traditionally important.

Place the correct song with the correct decade. Each decade has 2 songs!

I Feel Fine

The Beatles

Don’t You Want Me

Human League Hallelujah

Alexandra Burke

Always on my Mind

Pet Shop Boys

A: D: G: J:

Mull of Kintyre

Wings

2 Become 1

The Spice Girls

Return to Sender

Elvis Presley

When we Collide

Matt Cardle

B: E: H: K:

Skyscraper

Sam Bailey

Merry Xmas Everyone

SLADE A Moment Like This

Leona Lewis

I Will Always Love You

Whitney Houston

C: F: I: L:

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©2011 - 2015 | Ep. 226| It’s Christmas Time! Holiday Special

Boxing Day Countries| Which Sport?

Match the decade with the decade with the correct two

song titles from page one.

1 1960s 4 1990s

2 1970s 5 2000s

3 1980s 6 2010s

Warm Up | 4 | A1 2015 Christmas Trivia

Read the facts about Christmas songs in history.

Read the seven statements below and decide if you think they are correct!

HINT – Four sentences are TRUE & three sentences are FALSE!

1 The first Christmas carol was written in the 7th Century. [T] [F]

2 Silent Night is the best-selling song in history. [T] [F]

3 Band Aid is a British-Irish super-group. [T] [F]

4 Silent Night was written by two Austrians in the 19th Century. [T] [F]

5 White Christmas was written by a Jewish-American composer. [T] [F]

6 Band Aid has recorded four versions of Do They Know Its Xmas. [T] [F]

7 Silent Night was originally written in English. [T] [F]

7 to Chinwag | A4 Christmas Holiday

What are you predictions for 2014?

Write them below and then discuss your ideas with a partner(s)

1 How did you spend Christmas Day last year? WHY?

2 What is the best Christmas present you have ever received? WHY?

3 Who would you most like to give a Christmas present to? WHY?

4 What does the Christmas holidays mean for you? WHY?

5 What festival is the most important in your country? WHY?

6 What festival do you not enjoy? WHY?

7 If you could travel anywhere for Christmas where would you go? WHY?

8 What is your favourite Christmas movie? WHY?

9 What is your favourite Christmas song? WHY?

X FREE QUESTION

END OF PART 1



| PART 2 | Listening |

Listening / Reading 1 | | A2 Christmas Day 1 | Carols

L1 ~ Gap Fill

Listen / Read the news story below and write the correct word in the spaces.

Listen / Read the rest of the sentence to help with your understanding.

226 The Holly and the Ivy

1

Come All Ye Faithful. The First Noel. The Holly and the Ivy. These are some of

the most well-known and oldest Christmas carols that are usually sung in

churches and 1: _______ during the Christmas festival. But ENW will start our

first Christmas Day topic with another carol that was first sung in the early 19th

Century in a small 2: _______ town on Christmas Eve.

Silent Night or Stille Nacht in the original German has become such an

important Christmas carol that in 2011 3: _______ declared it a World Cultural

Heritage. The carol was composed by a school teacher Franz Xaver Gruber in

1818. He wrote music to words written in 1816 by Joseph Mohr, a young

Austrian 4: _______.

In the 20th Century Silent Night became a symbol of a famous Christmas Truce

during World War I between British and 5: _______ troops. After four months of

brutal fighting in trenches a truce was agreed for Christmas Day. Silent Night

was sung in both English and German and a football match was 6: _______

between the two armies.

Silent Night has also become the 3rd biggest selling song in history after

7: ________ singer Bing Crosby recorded it in 1935. In the last 80 years the song

has sold more than 30 million copies around the world! Although the song is

still 20 8: ________ copies behind another Bing Crosby Christmas song – White

Christmas which will be the focus of the second ENW topic for this Christmas

special.

Post-Listening / Reading | 1 Q & A

Read / Listen to the questions again – what are the correct answers?

1 How many Christmas carols are in news story 1? __________

2 What was the name of the Austrian priest? __________

3 How many copies has Silent Night sold? __________

4 What year did Franz Zaver Gruber compose the music? __________

5 What two countries were fighting each other? __________

6 When did Bing Crosby record his version of Silent Night?

7 What sport is in news story 1?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Gruber



Listening / Reading 2 | | A4 Christmas Day 2 | White Christmas

L2 ~ Which Word?

Listen / Read the news story below and choose the correct word from the box.

Each word can be used only ONCE.

A: capturing B: featured C: probably E: during

F: heck G: According H: change I: Jewish

226 The Best Song Ever Written

2

“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas, just like the ones we used to know”. And so

begins 1: _____ the most famous Christmas song in history. First recorded in

1942 by American crooner Bing Crosby the 3 minute song has sold more copies

than any other song in history. 2: _____ to the Guinness Book of World

Records the song has sold between 50 million – 100 million copies.

What is even more interesting about White Christmas is that it was written by a

man who was actually 3: _____. Irvin Berlin, one of the 20th Century’s greatest

composers and lyricists who composed more than 1,500 songs during his

lifetime. His influence on American culture is so great that after he died aged

101 in 1989 he was described as the American who, “helped write the story of

America, 4: _____ the best of whom we are and the dreams that shape our lives”.

Irvin Berlin knew he had written a great song with White Christmas. He wrote

the song 5: _____ just one night in 1940 and in the morning he told his secretary,

“I just wrote the best song I've ever written — 6: _____, I just wrote the best song that

anybody's ever written!”

The song also 7: _____ in the 1942 movie – Holiday Inn which starred Bing

Crosby and another famous American entertainer Fred Astaire. White

Christmas won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Our final Christmas song has never won an Academy Award or been described

as the best song ever, but it did 8: _____ the world.



1 What is the name of the movie in the news story? __________

2 When was Irvin Berlin born? __________

3 How many religions are mentioned in the news story? __________

4 How long is White Christmas? __________

5 How old was Irvin Berlin when he died? __________

6 What award did White Christmas win? __________

7 How many songs did Irvin Berlin write in his lifetime? __________



Listening / Reading 3 | | A3 Christmas Day 3 | Band Aid

L3 ~ Mistakes!

Listen / Read the news story below and circle the eight words that are wrong.

Then listen / read again and write the correct eight words in the boxes below. 226 A Song that Changed the World

3

“It’s Christmas Time and there is no need to be afraid”. This is perhaps an unusual

ending to a song that relates to the Christmas holiday. But then Do They Know

It’s Christmas is not a normal Christmas song. Why? Well the song is one of the

most happy charity songs of all time, first released in 1984 it was written to raise

money for anti-poverty efforts in Ethiopia.

In 1984 an Irish singer named Bob Geldof decided that he wanted to help raise

money for food relief in Ethiopia. He organised with the help of his partner

Paula Yates, a super-group of 40 of the most famous British and Irish musicians

and called it Band Aid. Some of the famous and best-selling musicians who

contributed to the video included Bono and Adam Clayton from U2, Sting, Paul

Weller, Phil Collins, Sara Dallin, David Bowie and Paul McCartney.

The song Do They Know It’s Christmas was written by Bob Geldof and Scottish

dancer Midge Ure. It was so successful that in the first week in sold more than

one million copies and raised more than £20 million. One year later Bob Geldof

and Midge Ure also organised Live Aid which centred around two pop concerts

in London and Moscow which raised a further £150 million.

The Band Aid song was copied by an Greek super-group called USA for Africa

who released their own charity song called We are the World in 1985. Do they

Know It’s Christmas has now been recorded nine times in 1989, 2005 and 2015

and there are plans to record it again in 2025 – its 40th anniversary.

1: 4: 7:

2: 5: 8:

3: 6: 9:



1 When was Do They Know Its Christmas? first recorded? __________

2 How much money did the record raise? __________

3 How many musicians are in news story 3? __________

4 What was the name of the charity pop concert? __________

5 Who wrote Do They Know Its Christmas? __________

6 Which two cities hosted Live Aid concerts?

7 What was the US charity record called?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sign




| PART 3 | Extra Stuff |

And Finally 1| X, Y & Z | A4 Did You Know…?

And Finally 2 | 2015 Movies

2015 has also been a big year for movies.

Can you put the movies into the correct order according to how much

money they earned in 5

1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9

5 10

2014|Movies

Which were the most popular movies this year..?

A: __ Avengers: Age of Ultron G: __ Jurassic World

B: __ Fifty Shades of Grey H: __ Minions

C: __ Furious 7 I: __ Mission Impossible 5

D: __ Hunger Games: Mockinjay 2 J: __ The Martian

E: __ Inside Out K: __ Spectre

END OF PART 3



Writing My 2015!

As 2015 comes to a close – what have been your highlights and lowlights?

Why? Make a list and give reasons for your ideas.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________

The End

Visual | TV Links

You Tube | (USA) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvfhoWIPoVw [02:40]

White Christmas Song

You Tube | (USA) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPamW-WUf50 [02:25] Silent Night – Bing Crosby

You Tube | (USA)

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE [04:37]

Band Aid 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvfhoWIPoVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPamW-WUf50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE



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

D – ETHIOPIA A / B / C – are all names of musicians / bands.

Warm Up 3 | Christmas Songs by Decade

A: 1960s D: 1980s G: 2000s J: 1980s

B: 1970s E: 1990s H: 1960s K: 2010s

C: 2010s F: 1970s I: 2000s L: 1990s

A1 Warm Up 4 | True or False

1 – F 2 – F 3 – T 4 – T 5 – T 6 – T 7 - F

Answers | Listening / Reading 1 Christmas Day 1

226 The Holly and the Ivy

1

Come All Ye Faithful. The First Noel. The Holly and the Ivy. These are some of the most well-known

and oldest Christmas carols that are usually sung in churches and schools during the Christmas

festival. But ENW will start our first Christmas Day topic with another carol that was first sung in the

early 19th Century in a small Austrian town on Christmas Eve.

Silent Night or Stille Nacht in the original German has become such an important Christmas carol

that in 2011 UNESCO declared it a World Cultural Heritage. The carol was composed by a school

teacher Franz Xaver Gruber in 1818. He wrote music to words written in 1816 by Joseph Mohr, a

young Austrian priest.

In the 20th Century Silent Night became a symbol of a famous Christmas Truce during World War I

between British and German troops. After four months of brutal fighting in trenches a truce was

agreed for Christmas Day. Silent Night was sung in both English and German and a football match

was played between the two armies.

Silent Night has also become the 3rd biggest selling song in history after American singer Bing Crosby

recorded it in 1935. In the last 80 years the song has sold more than 30 million copies around the

world! Although the song is still 20 million copies behind another Bing Crosby Christmas song –

White Christmas which will be the focus of the second ENW topic for this Christmas special.

1 – 5 2 – Joseph Mohr 3 – 30 million 4 – 1818

5 – Germany and Britain 6 – 1935 7 - Football


226 The Best Song Ever Written

2

“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas, just like the ones we used to know”. And so begins probably the

most famous Christmas song in history. First recorded in 1942 by American crooner Bing Crosby

the 3 minute song has sold more copies than any other song in history. According to the Guinness

Book of World Records the song has sold between 50 million – 100 million copies.

What is even more interesting about White Christmas is that it was written by a man who was

actually Jewish. Irvin Berlin, one of the 20th Century’s greatest composers and lyricists who

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Gruber



composed more than 1,500 songs during his lifetime. His influence on American culture is so great

that after he died aged 101 in 1989 he was described as the American who, “helped write the story of

America, capturing the best of whom we are and the dreams that shape our lives”.

Irvin Berlin knew he had written a great song with White Christmas. He wrote the song during just

one night in 1940 and in the morning he told his secretary, “I just wrote the best song I've ever

written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!”

The song also featured in the 1942 movie – Holiday Inn which starred Bing Crosby and another

famous American entertainer Fred Astaire. White Christmas won the Academy Award for Best

Original Song.

Our final Christmas song has never won an Academy Award or been described as the best song

ever, but it did change the world.

1 – Holiday Inn 2 – 1888 3 – Two 4 – 3m 04sec

5 – 101 6 – Best Original Song 7 – 1,500


226 A Song that Changed the World

3

“It’s Christmas Time and there is no need to be afraid”. This is perhaps an unusual opening to a song

that relates to the Christmas holiday. But then Do They Know It’s Christmas is not a normal

Christmas song. Why? Well the song is one of the most successful charity songs of all time, first

released in 1984 it was written to raise money for anti-poverty efforts in Ethiopia.

In 1984 an Irish singer named Bob Geldof decided that he wanted to help raise money for famine

relief in Ethiopia. He organised with the help of his partner Paula Yates, a super-group of 40 of the

most famous British and Irish musicians and called it Band Aid. Some of the famous and best-

selling musicians who contributed to the record included Bono and Adam Clayton from U2, Sting,

Paul Weller, Phil Collins, Sara Dallin, David Bowie and Paul McCartney.

The song Do They Know It’s Christmas was written by Bob Geldof and Scottish singer Midge Ure.

It was so successful that in the first week in sold more than one million copies and raised more than

£20 million. One year later Bob Geldof and Midge Ure also organised Live Aid which centred

around two pop concerts in London and Philadelphia which raised a further £150 million.

The Band Aid song was copied by an American super-group called USA for Africa who released

their own charity song called We are the World in 1985. Do they Know It’s Christmas has now

been recorded three times in 1989, 2005 and 2015 and there are plans to record it again in 2025 – its

40th anniversary.

1 – 1984 2 – £20 million 3 – 10 4 – Live Aid

5 – Bob Geldof & Midge Ure 6 – London & Philadelphia 7 – We are the World

And Finally X & Z

A4 – X: 1984 / Z: mascots

Movies 2015

1 – G 2 – C 3 – A 4 – H 5 – E 6 – K 7 – I 8 –D 9 – J 10 - B






Extra Bit

This Week’s ENW Images



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MAIN PHOTO:

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LINKS:

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http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/every-official-christmas-number-1-ever-__3618/

http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/carols_history.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_%28song%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

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http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Christmas-Number-1

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/every-official-christmas-number-1-ever-__3618/

http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/carols_history.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_%28song%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=292199&SubsidiaryNumber=0

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