Week+7

WEEK 7
=Learning about great Architecture and Urban Planning= =Video 1: Star architect Ma Yansong (Interview)=
 * For Jan-April 2011 students this is Week 8. **
 * DO NOT FORGET TO DO OUR QUIZ 2+READING 1 ACTIVITY **Quiz 2 + Reading 1 (20 pts)

= = =What do you know about Chinese architecture?= =What are some of the buildings built in Beijing?= =How many Chinese architects do you know?= =Who is Ma Yansong?=

=**Week 7 Objectives:**=
 * Discussing and learning about Chinese architecture
 * Watching a video about the famous Chinese architect Ma Yansong
 * Discussing video clip with classmates
 * Listening for gists (Main ideas)
 * Listening for details (Secondary ideas)
 * Building up vocabulary and grammar
 * Writing a script for an Interview
 * Interviewing a classmate
 * Finishing work not completed in previous weeks

**Tuesday: Video 1** **(6 pts)**

 * Before watching this video clip, go over the Pre-viewing activities with your teacher (F2F). (See Pre-viewing activities in Video 1 Worksheet).

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**Activity 1:** Vocabulary building

 * Pre-viewing Activities (F2F):**
 * **Please do Part I: Previewing Activities, Exercise 5**: Check the meanings of the words in the chart, and practice their pronunciation with your teacher. (Use Video 1 Worksheet)


 * Read the Interview script and using the words in the chart, fill in the[[image:Vocabulary2.JPG width="797" height="253" align="left"]] blank spaces



Activity 2:

 * Video 2 Worksheet**
 * While-viewing Activities :**
 * Listen to the first part of the video, and fill in the blank spaces to complete Jeremy Goldkorn’s introduction.

//Hi, I’m Jeremy Goldkorn reporting from (name of a neighborhood in Mandarin) in Dongguan District in Beijing. This place (...) look very trendy, but just (...)is a (...)containing the (...)of MAD. MAD is one of China’s brightest// //(...)// //architectural (...) founded by a (...) guy (...) Ma Yansong.//

//Ma Yansong (...) rose his (...) prominence when he (...) an international (...) to (...)a massive (...)tower in Mississauga, (...).//

//Dubbed the (...) (...) building (...) its sensuous (...), this design was the (...) of the Canadian judges as well as the (...) media and the (...) .//

//So let’s go and (...) this (...) Ma Yansong who is (...) a new sensuousness to (...) architecture in (...) .//

Activity 3:

 * Video 1 Worksheet**
 * Post-viewing Activities :**
 * After you watch the video, answer these questions:

1. Who is the interviewer? 2. What’s the interviewee’s name? 3. Where did he do his undergraduate studies? 4. Where did he get his Master degree? 5. Why is his architectural firm named MAD? 6. Name some of the projects mentioned in the video 7. Why was one of the projects nicknamed “Marilyn Monroe”? 8. What did the interviewer think about Chinese architecture when he first went to China? 9. What seems to be the biggest problem facing Chinese architecture? 10. Ma Yansong states it is a two-part problem. What are the two parts involved?


 * MAKE A PRINTOUT OF BOTH VIDEO ACTIVITIES (Video 1 Worksheet and Video 1 Interview script) WITH YOUR NAMES AND ANSWERS AND GIVE THEM TO YOUR TEACHER NEXT CLASS (Thursday, Week 8) **

Activity 4:

 * Follow-up :**
 * Following the example interview in the video, get together with a classmate and write a script (set of questions) to interview each other. Remember you and your friend are famous architects/urban planners. Have your teacher correct your script before you start doing the interviews.
 * 1) First interview your friend
 * 2) Second, have your friend interview you.
 * 3) After you have interviewed each other, post your interviews in the forum provided to that end in Moodle to later post the interviews in your wikis!


 * **Podcast 3 (2 pts):** After your interview scripts have been corrected and edited in Moodle, record both interviews using Grabadora de sonidos to later upload the recordings to your wiki pages!


 * ** DURING THE CARNIVAL BREAK, ** catch up on the work you have behind
 * Remember to continue adding words to our Glossary in Moodle.