Year 10 Section 2 (High School)
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Unit 2: Go (a)broad
2 - Which type of gap year project is made for you ?
1 - Why more teens like Malia Obama are taking a gap year?
7 - Final Task : Our utopian society project
You are the lead organizers of a Utopian society project. In groups of three or four, you are going to present and promote your project (←A2 and A2+) with the testimony of someone already living in your community (←B1).
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6 - What is a smart city ? CNBC explains (activate the subtitles in English)
Answer the following questions in your notebook :
1. What aspects of the city’s operations are concerned by the infusion of technologies in a smart city (9 in total)?
2. In your notebook, take notes about the 3 examples presented in the video and organize them into three sections : 1 - Location, 2 – Initiative, 3, Effect(s) or example(s)
3. What is the drawback of this smart city? Do you see other drawbacks not mentioned in the video?
5 - Shifani talks about how to make cities more efficient places to live (practice the reading of the script) :
4 - What is a Smart City ? Practice the reading of the script from the video :
3 - Videos to watch and to understand during the All Saints holidays
average : Saudi Arabia’s controversial mega-city project | difficult : The Promise and Threat of China's Smart Cities (activate the English subtitles !) |
easy : How Can We Make The Perfect City? (activate the English subtitles !) | difficult : 10 Failed Utopias From History |
very difficult : Utopian Cities (activate the English subtitles !) | average: Top 10 Experimental Towns and Communes (activate the English subtitles !) |
2 - Find the picture corresponding to its description in the text and justify
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Picture 1 : An ‘Eco’ City (Project Paris 2050 by Vincent Callebaut) |
Picture 2 : A ‘techno’ city (design by Scott Richard : https://www.artstation.com/scottrichard ) |
Picture 3 : A dystopian city (Los Angeles in the science-fiction movie ‘Elysium’ by Neill Blomkamp). |
 Picture 4 : A ‘smart’ city |
1 - What is going to be the topic of our next unit ? To what parts of the curriculum will it be connected to ? Make hypothesis from the picture !
