MEET THE EXPERT
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ARCHITECTURE
1
Work with a partner. Look at the three buildings in the photos
and answer the questions.
3
b
Watch the interview again and
complete the missing information.
4
Work in groups and discuss the
questions.
1
Are there any unusual buildings in your
city?
2
What are your favourite buildings? Why
do you like them?
3
If you could design a building for your
local area, what would you design?
8
GLOBALISATION
1
a
Match the adjectives in the box with
their meanings below.
egalitarian hierarchical stifling
relationship-oriented task-driven
1
a system where people are divided into
levels of importance
2
focused more on results
3
a belief that everyone is equal and
should have equal rights
4
a situation which stops you developing
your own ideas and character
5
a belief that good contact with
colleagues is important
1
b
Work in groups. Which words/phrases
would you use to describe the way people
communicate in your culture? Which other
words/phrases would you use?
2
8
Watch the interview with
Richard Cook, who talks about working
in a global environment, and put the
quotes in the order he says them.
a
‘… and this is because they maybe have
different ways of communicating or
different styles of leadership.’
b
‘Well, a global business environment
can mean different things for different
companies.’
c
‘The biggest block for native English
speakers working globally is that they
believe they don’t have to do anything
differently when they communicate.’
d
‘The implications for people working in
a global environment are that it cannot
be business as usual. There are big
differences.’
1
The Sesc Pompeia is located in a
area of Sao Paulo.
2
One of its uses is as a place where people can play
.
3
The organisation that built it, also built
other centres across Brazil.
4
Lina Bo Bardi worked with the local people in order to
create a building which they
.
5
5 The towers are
high.
6
6 The colours of the windows were in
to the
material of the rest of the building.
7
7 Laura describes the appearance of the building
as
.
8
8 Local people loved the building when it first opened and
they still
it in the same way now.
1
Where do you think each building is?
2
What do you think it’s used for?
3
What adjectives would you use to describe each one?
4
Which one do you like best?
2
7
Watch an interview with Laura Mark, a journalist for a
magazine on architecture, and tick which four of the sentences (a–g)
she says are unusual about the Sesc Pompeia building.
a
It wasn’t common at the time it was built for women architects to
build large buildings.
b
Lina Bo Bardi had already built many buildings like this.
c
She changed a building that was there rather than building it from new.
d
Before that, concrete had rarely been used on such a large scale.
e
She built the walls from plaster.
f
The windows look very different from the rest of the building.
g
The building was popular at the time, but not now.
3
a
Work with a partner and look at the notes below. Can you
remember the missing information?
1
The Mac
2
Park Hill
3
Sesc Pompeia
