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Exercise A, page 104.
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Architect Comfortable Engineer Float
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Ground Look like
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Luxury Resident Safe
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Solution Exercise B.
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Meaning from Context Page 104
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The Burj Al -Arab The Burj al -Arab is a luxury hotel in the city of Dubai.
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From a distance, it looks like the sails on a ship, and the hotel seems to float on the water.
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But, in fact, it sits on a small, human -made island.
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When they started the project, engineers did not know how to create the new island, but they found a solution.
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They used concrete and rocks.
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It took three years to move enough sand and create safe ground above the water.
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Then an architect designed the famous hotel.
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Now, the Burj al -Arab has some of the most comfortable and expensive rooms in the world.
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Across from the hotel, local residents in Dubai often see helicopters arrive at the top of the building with rich
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and sometimes famous guests.
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Listening Housing Solutions Exercise B Main Ideas Page 106
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and Exercise C Details Page 107
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As you know, global warming is changing our world.
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Oceans and seeds are rising, so there are more floods.
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As a result, there isn't enough safe housing for people who live near water.
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So, many architects and engineers are designing new kinds of houses for wet weather.
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Let's take a look at some of their creative solutions to this problem.
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First, I'll talk about Vietnam.
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There's often heavy rainfall and flooding in the middle of the country.
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To solve this, one Vietnamese architect designed a house that is three meters above the ground.
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You climb a ladder to enter it.
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Water can go under the house when there's flooding.
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But when it's dry, you can use the area under the house as a storage space for plants, farm equipment, and animals.
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The house is made from bamboo.
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Bamboo grows in many places in Vietnam, so it's a cheap building material.
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The United States also has problems with housing and hurricanes.
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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is a good example.
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After the hurricane, there was terrible flooding and water destroyed a lot of houses.
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90 % of the residents evacuated the city by car and drove to safer places further north.
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Afterwards, when they returned, there weren't enough houses for many of them.
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So, a U .S architect created the Float House.
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It looks like a normal house, but if there's a flood, the bottom of the house moves up and it floats like a boat.
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Dhaka in Bangladesh has a similar problem to New Orleans.
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In Dhaka, there can be a lot of rainfall, and that destroys housing.
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So, like the float house in New Orleans, there is the lift house in Dhaka.
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The lift house floats up when the water rises and goes back to the ground afterwards.
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Like the house in Vietnam, this house uses cheap bamboo, but it also uses old plastic water bottles.
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The bottles help it float and make it inexpensive.
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In Europe, the Netherlands has a long history of building in wet areas and near the sea.
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About one quarter of the country is below sea level.
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That's because Dutch engineers removed the seawater and created land to build on.
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About 75 % of Dutch people live in houses on this land.
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In addition, some people live on houseboats.
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There are 60 ,000 houseboats in the Netherlands.
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The typical houseboat is not big, about 5 meters wide and 20 meters long.
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Houseboats can move from place to place, but they usually stay in one spot.
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Now, many countries are turning to the Dutch to help with the problem of higher sea levels.
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One Dutch architect, Koen Oethwis, uses the basic design of a houseboat,
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but he builds comfortable and modern structures, even luxury homes.
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His company, Water Studio, has already built more than 200 floating homes and offices,
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and they are working on designs for floating cities.
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Pretty amazing!
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Exercise D.
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Focused Listening.
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Page 107.
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1. First, I'll talk about Vietnam.
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There's often heavy rainfall and flooding in the middle of the country.
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2. After the hurricane, there was terrible flooding and water destroyed a lot of houses.
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90 % of the residents evacuated the city by car and drove to safer places further north.
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3. So, a U .S architect created the Float House.
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It looks like a normal house, but if there's a flood, the bottom of the house moves up and it floats like a boat.
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4. In Europe, the Netherlands has a long history of building in wet areas and near the sea.
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About one quarter of the country is below sea level.
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5. One Dutch architect, Cohen Ulthuis, uses the basic design of a houseboat,
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but he builds comfortable and modern structures, even luxury homes.
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Exercise E, page 107 1.
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Water can go under the house when there's flooding.
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But when it's dry, you can use the area under the house as a storage space for plants, farm equipment, and animals.
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2. 90 % of the residents evacuated the city by car and drove to safer places further north.
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Afterwards, when they return, there weren't enough houses for many of them.
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3. About one -quarter of the country is below sea level.
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That's because Dutch engineers removed the seawater and created land to build on.
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Pronunciation Sentence Stress Page 109
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You often stress one or two words in a clause or sentence.
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You usually stress content words, words with the most meaning.
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Verb We love nature.
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Adjective It's a beautiful apartment.
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Noun The house also has a garden.
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More than one word.
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The house has a garden and it has a swimming pool.
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Sometimes, you can also stress a conjunction to emphasize its meaning.
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Emphasize the contrast.
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It's a beautiful apartment, but it's expensive.
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Emphasize the addition.
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It has a beautiful kitchen and there's a garden in the back.
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Exercise E, page 109 1.
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This pizza is delicious.
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2. The apartment is in the city center.
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3. He loves music and he goes to concerts.
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4. I like the jacket, but it's expensive.
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5. You can live here, or you can live there.
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6. The bedrooms are comfortable.
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And they both have TVs.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “PATHWAYS 1 UNIT 6: HOUSING FOR THE FUTURE LESSON A”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: float, architect, page, Exercise, houseboat. Questo video contiene 99 frasi e 1000 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 10:14. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 98 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
float verbo/fləʊt/galleggiare
flood sostantivo/flʌd/inondazione, alluvione
architect sostantivo/ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/ideatore, ideatrice
resident sostantivo/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/residente
luxury sostantivo/ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/lusso
hurricane sostantivo/ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/uragano
afterwards avverbio/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/dopo, poi
meter sostantivo/ˈmitəɹ/metro, contatore
rainfall sostantivoacquazzone, rovescio
emphasize verbo/ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/enfatizzare, sottolineare
bamboo sostantivo/bæmˈbu/bambù
evacuate verbo/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/evacuare
bedroom sostantivo/ˈbɛdˌɹum/camera da letto, camera
contrast sostantivo/kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/contrasto
concrete aggettivo/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/concreto, reale

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 5 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'll, weren't, isn't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, conjunction /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, inexpensive /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hurricane /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, houseboat /ˈhaʊsˌboʊt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: float /fləʊt/, flood /flʌd/, architect /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛkt/, resident /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, bamboo /bæmˈbu/, evacuate /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, sand /sænd/

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