Donatella Bottero

Raffaella Beolé

L’argomento.
 Il testo è rivolto agli studenti dei corsi di studio a indirizzo “Costruzioni, Ambiente e Territorio” e “Architettura e Ambiente”.
 Gli argomenti trattati sono strettamente collegati alle discipline di studio del triennio: ecologia e salvaguardia del territorio, materiali da costruzione e sicurezza nei cantieri di lavoro, bioedilizia, progettazione e realizzazione di edifici, tecniche e strumenti per la restituzione grafica
 di progetti e rilievi, problematiche urbanistiche, conoscenza della storia dell’architettura con riferimenti specifici all’architettura moderna e contemporanea.

Module 1 - The environment

1 Ecology

2 Pollution

3 Energy sources

Mapping your mind

Vocabulary

Grammar • Expressing present time in English

Listening • Water for life

Speaking • The last drop

Writing • Applying for a summer job

Film • Avatar

Green Economy

Module 2 - Bio and Man-made construction

1 Landscapes

2 Eco-design

3 Building materials

Grammar • Expressing past time in English

Listening • The vertical forest

Speaking • Ten energy saving tips for your house

Writing • How to write a complaint letter

Film • A Little Chaos

Classification of common rock

Module 3 - Surveying

1 Progession and equipment

2 Mapping

Grammar • Expressing future time in English

Listening • Becoming a surveyor

Speaking • Meet a surveyor

Writing • Working as a surveyor

Film • The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

James Cook

Module 4 - House planning

1 Designing

2 Building elements

3 Technical systems

4 Building renovation and restoration

Grammar • The Passive Form

Listening • Casa Loma, Toronto

Speaking • Lower your fuel bill with a grant

Writing • Looking for a new house

Film • The Money Pit

Edward Hopper: the painter of American urban landscape

Module 5 - Public works

1 Roads and public transports

2 Education, culture and entertainment

3 Recreation and sport

Grammar • Compounds

Listening • The London Stadium

Speaking • A radio debate: train or plane?

Writing • Assessing a school building

Film • Once Upon a Time in the West

John Steinbeck: the voice of American rural workers

Module 6 - The workplace

1 Civil engineering

2 Architecture and architects

3 Safety in the yard

Grammar • Comparatives and Superlatives

Listening • Safety test

Speaking • An interview

Writing • Writing a cover letter

Film • The Architect

Earthquakes

Module 7 - Settlements

1 Urbanisation

2 History of city planning

Grammar • Prefixes and Suffixes

Listening • Dubai: a city of contrasts

Speaking • Liverpool: a real urban renaissance

Writing • City or countryside?

Film • Manhattan

The Olympic Games

Module 8 - History of architecture

1 From the beginnings to the 18th century

2 Architecture of the 19th century

3 The masters of modern architecture

4 Contemporary architecture

Grammar • Connectors

Listening • Art Deco in America

Speaking • Sightseeing modern architecture

Writing • A school trip to Barcelona

Film • Medici: Masters of Florence

Proportions: the Golden Ratio

Grammar EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME IN ENGLISH USE FUTURE SIMPLE TO BE GOING TO PRESENT CONTINUOUS   General or long-term predictions Drones will be the cheapest surveying instruments for the next decade.   Predictions based on present evidence Laser scanners are going to become necessary instruments in architectural surveying.   Events already planned or organized Tomorrow expert surveyors are measuring the field to install solar panels.   Promises and threats Stop talking during the survey tutorial or you ll make a lot of mistakes in the test.   Intentions Our school is going to buy new surveying instruments for the students.   Future scheduled events The conference  Surveying Mont Blanc  is taking place in Grenoble next week.   Decisions made at the time of speaking It takes a lot of time to measure the football pitch with traditional instruments, I ll use the Total Station.   Decisions which haven t been planned yet I don t know exactly when but I m going to try that new electronic instrument.   Uncertainties I ll probably apply for a course of Archaeological Surveying at the university.   Action which are about to happen That drone is flying in the wrong direction   it s going to crash!   Things which will happen independently of our will Next month I will be 17. TIME CLAUSES Introduced by after, as soon as, before, till, until, when, as long as, whenever, while or time expressions such as the minute, the moment, these clauses require the following structure: time expression + present simple, future simple I ll call you as soon as I arrive. When the survey finishes, we ll go to the office to download the data. They won t stop using the laser scanner until the whole building survey is finished. The moment the surveyors see the huge piece of land, they will be surprised. Old map of Manhattan, 1870 100 Module 3 

1 Complete the sentences with the right future tense. 1. This new aerial laser scanner ...................................... make a real difference in surveying large areas of land. 2. Surveyors ...................................... deal with a mining project before the tunnel excavation. 3. The local City Construction Board ...................................... require an as-built survey during the road construction works. 4. My brother ...................................... to study Engineering at the university because he would like to become a surveyor. 5. If you use the Total Station, the data of the measurements ...................................... be extremely precise. 6. Please, promise to pay attention to your work or the map you are preparing ...................................... be really inaccurate! 7. The meeting of surveyors and architects ...................................... take place at 11 am at the City Hall tomorrow. 8. The hill is so covered by vegetation! We ...................................... use a drone to make our surveying work easier. 9. The surveyors ...................................... register the images with real-world coordinates to prepare a large set of orthophotos of the region. 10. The aerial photogrammetry ...................................... be very useful to draw an updated cadastral map of the town. 2 Choose the correct options. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 3 Political maps will change/are going to change in the next decades. The architectural survey of the ancient castle is going to last/is lasting at least ten days. Be careful with the Total Station or I won t/am not going to let you use it anymore! They are starting/will start to draw the site map, only when the team of surveyors have all the data. The surveyors will/are going to check the whole building before the restoration work. Translate these sentences into English. ACTIVITIES 1. La mappa catastale aggiornata sarà utilizzata per la determinazione dei confini delle zone elettorali. 2. Nuove mappe climatologiche saranno preparate nei prossimi anni per studiare i recenti cambiamenti climatici del paese. 3. Gli ingegneri responsabili del progetto stradale si incontreranno domani mattina. 4. I cartografi hanno intenzione di usare tutti i dati disponibili per creare mappe molto precise. 5. Il rilevamento idrografico di quella parte del Mar Mediterraneo probabilmente scoprirà dei siti archeologici sottomarini. One day all this will be yours! SURVEYING Module 3 101 

Il testo per studenti di “Costruzioni, Ambiente e Territorio” tratta ecologia, bioedilizia, sicurezza nei cantieri, progettazione, urbanistica.

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