Donatella Bottero

Raffaella Beolé

L'argomento Landmarks è un testo rivolto in particolare agli studenti dei corsi con indirizzo Costruzioni, Ambiente e Territorio e, più in generale a tutti coloro che hanno l’esigenza di utilizzare la lingua inglese come strumento di studio e/o di lavoro in questi settori. La struttura Landmarks è diviso in otto Moduli, ognuno dei quali è ripartito in due sezioni: Unità del Modulo – Contiene testi e attività che riguardano i contenuti specifici della specializzazione già affrontati in L1. Ogni Unità è suddivisa in brevi Capitoli su due pagine – teoria ed esercizi – per favorire sia uno studio più parcellizzato, sia la scelta antologica da parte dell’insegnante. I contenuti dei capitoli sono enucleati, cioè sono divisi in più paragrafi titolati per rendere la comprensione più agevole. Brevi link (verdi per i link attivi con attività, arancioni per quelli informativi senza attività) arricchiscono i brani per consentire una maggiore interattività con gli allievi. Alcune rubriche di approfondimento o curiosità, inoltre, permettono di ampliare le conoscenze sugli argomenti. Un ricco apparato iconografico correda i brani di lettura, per ognuno dei quali è previsto un esauriente glossario. Ogni Unità si chiude con una pagina di grammatica e una dedicata ad un’abilità linguistica. Alcune pagine sono strutturate secondo le indicazioni delle Prove Nazionali INVALSI.

MODULE 1 - THE ENVIRONMENT

Unit 1 - Ecology

Unit 2 - Pollution

Unit 3 - Energy Sources

VOCABULARY

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Reading charts

CASE STUDY Sundarbans, the sinking islands

FLIPPED CLASSROOM Tracking plastic in the ocean

BUILDING HIGHER Geopedology – Glaciers

ROUND-UP

MAPPING YOUR MIND

MODULE 2 - BIO AND MAN-MADE CONSTRUCTIONS

Unit 1 - Landscapes

Unit 2 - Eco-architecture

Unit 3 - Building materials

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Projecting eco houses

CASE STUDY The Edge, Amsterdam

FLIPPED CLASSROOM Twenty-one sustainable home ideas

BUILDING HIGHER Geology – Classification of common rocks

MODULE 3 - SURVEYING AND DESIGN

Unit 1 - Profession and equipment

Unit 2 - Mapping

Unit 3 - Building design

REAL-LIFE SKILLS A cover letter

CASE STUDY Cliff erosion pictured from the skies

FLIPPED CLASSROOM Architectural sketches

CLIL History – James Cook, navigator and cartographer

MODULE 4 -  BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Unit 1 - Building elements

Unit 2 - Technical system

Unit 3 - Building renovation and restoration

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Understanding an energy performance certificate

CASE STUDY San Francisco’s Victorian ‘painted lady’ houses

FLIPPED CLASSROOM IoT, the future is already upon us

BUILDING HIGHER Building Construction – The Royal Palace of Venaria

MODULE 5 - PUBLIC WORKS

Unit 1 - Public transports

Unit 2 - Health, education and culture

Unit 3 - Entertainment and sport

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Assessing a school building

CASE STUDY The San Giorgio bridge, Genoa (Italy)

FLIPPED CLASSROOM The Metropolitan Museum of Arts

CLIL Literature – John Steinbeck, the voice of farmers’ migration

MODULE 6 - THE WORKPLACE

Unit 1 - Civil engineering

Unit 2 - Architecture and architects

Unit 3 - Safety in the yard

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Local wonders

CASE STUDY Saving Venice? – The MOSE system

FLIPPED CLASSROOM The future of earthquake – proof buildings

BUILDING HIGHER Land Management – Earthquakes

MODULE 7 - SETTLEMENTS

Unit 1 - The history of city planning

Unit 2 - Urbanisation

Unit 3 - The sustainable city

REAL-LIFE SKILLS How to describe a city

CASE STUDY A park will save Bangkok

FLIPPED CLASSROOM The charm of small towns

CLIL Physical Education – The Olympic Games

MODULE 8 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

Unit 1 - From the beginnings to the 18th century

Unit 2 - Architecture of the 19th century

Unit 3 - The masters of modern architecture

Unit 4 - Contemporary architecture

REAL-LIFE SKILLS Describing architecture: city landmarks

CASE STUDY John Hancock Tower

FLIPPED CLASSROOM Renaissance in Florence

CLIL Mathematics – Proportions: the Golden Ratio

FURTHER MATERIAL

Film Clips

Architecture around the world

Conversion tables

2030 Agenda

Technical Glossary

ACQUISTA VERSIONE CARTACEA

REAL-LIFE SKILLS UNDERSTANDING AN ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE What is an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)? An Energy Performance Certificate is a legal requirement for a building to be sold, let or constructed. Once obtained, an EPC is valid for 10 years. The document, issued by a qualified accredited assessor, states how energy-efficient a building is by providing a rating from A (most efficient) to G (least efficient) by using a system with multicoloured bands. The Certificate also calculates how costly it will be to heat and light the building and what its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are likely to be. It is made up of different pages, but the main information is contained in the first one. 7 Answer the questions. 1. How can an EPC be defined? 2. How long is it valid? 3. Who is the document issued by? 8 4. What system is used to define the different levels of efficiency? 5. What else does the Certificate calculate? 6. What is an EPC made up of? Look at the document and answer the questions. The graph shows the current energy efficiency of a house in England. The higher the rating, the lower the fuel bill is likely to be. The average energy efficiency rating for a house in England and Wales is band D. In Italy, the efficiency rating of a house is showed in a document called APE which is the acronym of Attestato di Prestazione Energetica. 1 What information can you get from the graph? 2. In your opinion, what is the current efficiency rating? And the potential rating? 3. What is the average efficiency rating for houses in England and Wales? 4. Is it better to have a high or a low rating? Why? 5. What is the equivalent of EPC in Italy? 6. Ask your parents to show you the Energy Performance Certificate of your house. What is the energy rating? Are you saving energy? 166 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 

CASE STUDY SAN FRANCISCO S VICTORIAN  PAINTED LADY  HOUSES San Francisco has become one of the most expensive American cities to live in, a popular destination for young, highearning tech workers looking for an amazing property. Many of them have bought some of the city s Victorian houses, transforming their interiors imaginatively by working with the period features, but decorating in a multitude of styles. San Francisco s Victorian building boom began after the 1849 Gold Rush. At that time, there were around 58,000 Victorian homes in the city, many of them were destroyed in the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. Today just 14,000 remain. Originally, these houses were painted a chalky white to cover their wood structure and resemble stone. Later, during the First and Second World Wars, many were coated in a battleship grey, using surplus navy paint. And so, they remained until the 1960s, when a group of artists began experimenting with vivid colors on the fa ades   from lime and vermilion 9 to gold and turquoise. People began to copy their neighbors and soon entire streets were transformed with color. The houses were called the  Painted Ladies . The most famous examples are a group of houses next to Alamo Square, built in the 1890s and painted in soft pastels. These buildings have regularly appeared in films, television and advertising campaigns, gaining the epithet  Postcard Row . Adapted from: https://www.ft.com/content/ca Complete the sentences. 1. ........................................... in San Francisco have 5. During the First and Second World Wars, recently become the most desirable and ........................................... was used to paint the required types of houses. Victorian houses. 2. People who bought these houses, 6. In the 1960s, the ........................................... of these transformed their ........................................... and Victorian houses were painted with vivid decorated them in different ............................................ colors by a ............................................ 3. Many of the 58,000 Victorian homes were 7. The most famous  ...........................................  next destroyed in the devastating ........................................... to Alamo Square are painted in and ............................................ ............................................ 4. In the past, those houses were painted 8. They are so famous that they have regularly a ........................................... to cover their wood appeared in ........................................... and gained the structure and resemble ............................................ nickname  ........................................... . BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 167 

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English for the Construction Industry, the Environment and Land Management

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