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 READING CHARTS CITIES WITH THE WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD 7 Look at the chart below and answer the questions: 1. Which city has the worst air quality? 2. How many cities are from Africa? And from Asia? 3. Are there any European cities in the graph? If not, what is the reason according to you? 4. What does the air quality of a city depend on? 5. Have you learnt anything from the chart which surprises you? 6. What is the main conclusion you can draw from this chart? Choose from the following: a. Nigeria has three cities in this chart. b. The most polluted cities are in Central Asia. c. In the Middle East there is no problem of pollution. d. China has the record of polluted cities. TOP20 Most Polluted Cities in the Word PM10 particulate concentration, micrograms per cm Onitsha, Nigeria Pesawar, Pakistan Zabol, Iran Rawalpindi, Pakistan Kaduna, Nigeria Aba, Nigeria Riyadh, Saudi Arabia All Jubail, Saudi Arabia Mazer-e-Sharif, Afghanistan Gwalior, India Hamad Town, Bahrain Allhabad, India Shijazhuang, China Krachi, Pachistan Dammam, Saudi Arabia Umuahia, Nigeria Raipur, India Kabul, Afghanistan Ma ameer, Bahrain Boshehr, Iran 0 50 THE ENVIROMENT 100 200 300 400 500 

CASE STUDY SUNDARBANS, THE SINKING ISLANDS The Sundarbans, a group of islands that span the mouth of the Ganges Delta from Eastern India to Bangladesh, are sinking rapidly. The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth. The Sundarbans mangrove forest includes a complex network of waterways and small islands. The area has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. The habitat supports approximately 4.37 million people and several animal species. Due to climate change, sea level is rising so the islands are disappearing and the increasing salinity in the water has severely threatened the health of mangrove forests and the quality of soil. The Geological Survey of India has estimated that 210 square kilometres of land have been lost in the last 30 years and that the coast is retreating about 200 metres per year. Unless deep and rapid cuts in CO2 emissions are made, most of the Sundarbans may disappear underwater by midcentury, and could be wiped out by the end of the century. Sea-level rise and loss of the Sundarbans could have a devastating impact on the 500 million people of the Ganges basin. 8 due to: a causa di mangrove: mangrovie to retreat: ritirarsi to sink: affondare to span: estendersi to threaten: minacciare waterway: corso d acqua to wipe out: cancellare Complete the following sentences. 1. The Sundarbans are a ........................................... 5. The Geological Survey of India has estimated that lies at the mouth of the Ganges delta, that about ........................................... of land have spanning from India to Bangladesh. The been lost in the last ........................................... site is a UNESCO ............................................ and that the coast is receding about 2. The sea in the ........................................... is rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, so the ........................................... are sinking rapidly. 3. The area includes a network of ........................................... per year. 6. About 4.37 million people and several ...................... ...................... live there. 7. In the next decades, ........................................... could ........................................... and small have a devastating impact on the 500 million islands covered by a large forest of people of the Ganges basin. ........................................... . 4. The increasing ........................................... has 8. Unless important steps to reduce ......................................... are made, most of the damaged the health of mangrove forests Sundarbans may disappear underwater and the quality of ............................................ ........................................... . THE ENVIROMENT 51 

Manuale di inglese per studenti di Costruzioni, Ambiente e Territorio, con teoria, esercizi, glossario e attività interattive.

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English for the Construction Industry, the Environment and Land Management

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