Unit 6 Building Solutions Lesson B

Unit 6 Lesson B

Ingenious homes

in unexpected places

In this lesson, you are going to watch segments of Baan's TED Talk.

Use the information about Baan to answer the questions.

Part 1

A home on the water

Previewing

A. Read the excerpt below from Baan's talk. Complete the paragraph with the words below.

Multiple Choice

Let's go now to Africa, to Nigeria, to a community called Makoko, a slum where 150,000 people live just meters above the Lagos Lagoon. While it may --???-- to be a completely chaotic place, when you see it from above, there seems to be a whole grid of waterways and canals connecting each and every home.

• adapted

• appear

• become

• located

Multiple Choice

From the main dock, people board long wooden canoes which carry them out to their various homes and shops --???--  in the expansive area.

• adapted

• appear

• become

• located

Multiple Choice

When out on the water, it's clear that life has been completely --???-- to this very specific way of living.

• adapted

• appear

• become

• located

Multiple Choice

Even the canoes --???-- variety stores where ladies paddle from house to house, selling anything from toothpaste to fresh fruits.

• adapted

• appear

• become

• located

GETTING THE MAIN IDEA

What is the most important idea in this segment of Baan's TED Talk? Complete the statement using the best phrase below (a-c).

Multiple Choice

People in Makoko have adapted to their environment by -----

• using unusual materials to create their homes

• building an entire community on the water

• developing new types of transportation to get from place to place

UNDERSTANDING KEY DETAILS

A. How have people in Makoko adapted to their environment? Complete the concept map with the letters of the words and expressions below.

Multiple Choice

a. a floating band

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

Multiple Choice

b. a floating school

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

Multiple Choice

c. boat-making

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

Multiple Choice

d. canoes

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

Multiple Choice

e. fishing

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

Multiple Choice

f. floating stores

• Professions

• Entertainment

• Services and Institutions

• Transportation

B. Use information from Baan's talk to add an extra detail to each category in the concept map above.

Multiple Choice

Professions:

• shopkeeper

• playground

• electricity

Multiple Choice

Entertainment:

• shopkeeper

• playground

• electricity

Multiple Choice

Services and Institutions:

• shopkeeper

• playground

• electricity

Critical Thinking

Inferring. Read Baan's comment about Makoko below.

The population growth in Nigeria, and especially in these areas like Makoko, are painful reminders of how out of control things really are."

Open Ended

Critical Thinking

Why do you think the people of Makoko decided to create a community on the water?

PART 2

BRILLIANT FORMS OF INGENUITY

UNDERSTANDING MAIN IDEAS

Watch the next segment of Baan's TED Talk, and complete the sentences below.

Multiple Choice

1. Baan says that these communities could create even better solutions if -----.

• experts gave them some training in architecture

• they had some basic infrastructure to build from

• their governments provided most of their housing

Multiple Choice

2. Baan thinks that many large residential building projects around the world are -----

• creative and convenient places to live

• being abandoned as soon as they are built

• not creative and do not provide what people need

Recognizing Attitude

Read this excerpt from Baan's talk and underline the adjectives.

ดูทีละบรรทัดแล้วเลือกคำ adjective.

บางข้อเลือกได้มากกว่า 1 คำตอบ

Multiple Select

In most of these places, the government is completely absent, leaving inhabitants with no choice but to reappropriate found materials,

• absent

• found

• government

• completely

• inhabitants

Multiple Select

and while these communities are highly disadvantaged, they do present examples of brilliant forms of ingenuity and prove that indeed we have the ability to adapt to all manner of circumstances.

• disadvantaged

• communities

• brilliant

• circumstances

• manner

Multiple Select

What makes places like the Torre David particularly remarkable is this sort of skeleton framework where people can have a foundation where they can tap into.

• particularly

• framework

• remarkable

• foundation

• sort

Multiple Select

Now imagine what these already ingenious communities could create themselves, and how highly particular their solutions would be, if they were given the basic infrastructures that they could tap into.

• ingenious

• already

• imagine

• themselves

• infrastructures

Multiple Choice

B. Does Baan have a positive or negative attitude toward the communities he documents?

• positive attitude

• negative attitude

Multiple Select

Does Baan have a positive or negative attitude toward the communities he documents? How do you know?

"เลือก adjectives ที่ใช้อธิบาย Baan"

เลือกได้มากกว่า 1 ข้อ

• brilliant

• remarkable

• ingenious

• disadvantaged

• circumstances

Open Ended

CRITICAL THINKING

Applying. Baan quotes Zita Cobb: "there's this plague of sameness which is killing the human joy." Do you know any places with this problem? How could they be improved? Discuss with a partner.

​Bye