Unit 6 | Session 2

Painting safer streets

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Report on an interesting urban project
 Unit 6 | Session 2
Painting safer streets
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Report on an interesting urban project

Lesson overview

1 GET STARTED: Urban green projects

2 LISTENING: Listen for gist, for detail, for attitude
3 PREPARING TO SPEAK: A great urban project
4 SPEAKING: Great urban projects
5 PROGRESS CHECK
GET STARTED
Urban green projects
Look at the photo. Prepare to answer the questions.

1. What can you see in the picture?

2. Do you have places like this where you

live? If so, how did they come about?

3. What are the benefits of these green areas?

LISTENING
Listen for gist
Listen to the conversation about guerrilla gardening.
Choose the topics that Angela mentions.
a. What guerrilla gardening is
b. How she started guerrilla gardening
c. The places she has done guerrilla gardening
d. Other countries where guerrilla gardening happens
e. Some of the problems with guerrilla gardening
LISTENING
Listen for detail
Listen again. Write T (true) or F (false).
1. Greg and Angela both do guerrilla gardening. ___
2. People do guerrilla gardening to improve public spaces. ___
3. City governments usually start guerrilla gardening projects. ___
4. People can send donations if they want to support guerrilla gardening. ___
5. Guerrilla gardening groups exist only in North America. ___
6. Businesses are helping guerrilla gardening groups. ___
LISTENING
Listen for attitude
Listen again. Choose the speakers’ attitude toward guerrilla gardening.
Take notes to explain your answers.
1. Angela is
a. a little disappointed about guerrilla gardening.
b. really enthusiastic about guerrilla gardening.

2. Greg is
a. very interested in learning more about guerrilla gardening.
b. not very interested in learning more about guerrilla gardening.
PREPARING TO SPEAK
A great urban project
Think about an interesting urban project you know.
Make notes to answer these questions about it.
Prepare to share the information with your classmates.
1. What is the project?
2. Where is it?
3. Who is/was responsible for the project?
4. How did it come about?
5. What are the benefits of the project?
SPEAKING
Great urban projects
Work in groups. Share the information about the project you chose.
Ask and answer questions for more details about each other’s choices.
Then share the most interesting project described in your group with the class.

USEFUL LANGUAGE
This project is (for) . . .
It is . . .
It started . . .
Some people decided to . . .
The project has helped / is helpful for . . .
PROGRESS CHECK

Now I can . . .
 listen for and understand gist, details, and speakers’
attitudes in a conversation about guerrilla gardening.
 report on an interesting urban project.
 Unit 6 | Session 2
Painting safer streets
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Report on an interesting urban project

Thank you!