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Roadmap The Roadmap Video Report Unit 3: 1: The Fargo Personal Village Trainer

1C A new lifestyle 3C My kind of town

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BEFORE YOU WATCH 1

Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1 What is your favourite city/town/neighbourhood? Why? 2 Which places in your city/town would you recommend to a visitor? 3 Are there any unusual places or landmarks in your city/town?

2 a Read the text and label the photos with the places it mentions.

Old spaces, new places In many cities across the world, communities are taking over forgotten urban areas and making them into public spaces for the people who live there. One famous example of this is the High Line in New York City, a public park which is built on an old elevated railway line. Trains used to transport goods like meat and dairy products on this line from one side of New York to another, but the railway closed in the 1980s and the structure was going to be demolished. However, some local citizens started a group called Friends of the High Line and successfully campaigned to save it. They were inspired by the wild flowers growing on the unused railway line and decided to transform it into a community park and garden. Today, the mile and a half High Line park has more than 500 types of plants and trees in it, as well as artworks and live performances, and is a popular place for both locals and tourists to visit.

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In London, there are many community gardens in unused industrial areas. One of these gardens is Nomadic Gardens in the East End which was created on a small wasteland between two railway tracks. There are now a hundred allotments (plots of land that people can rent to grow vegetables), bees and beekeepers, a cafe, a theatre and a bicycle repair shop! There is lots of art to look at in the gardens, including sculptures and other artworks made from recycled materials as well as a huge mural painted by local graffiti artists. A team of volunteers look after the gardens by watering the plants, painting the buildings, cleaning the social areas and making sure the gardens stay a pleasant place for both the local community and visitors.

WHILE YOU WATCH 4 a Work in pairs. Choose the correct alternatives.

b Read the text again. Work in pairs to answer the questions. 1 What is the High Line park built on?

  

2 What type of products did it used to transport across New York?          

2 It was created in an old car park/ railway station.

3 What inspired the Friends of the High Line to transform it into a park?                4 How long is the High Line park?

        

5 Where is Nomadic Gardens?

1 Fargo village is an artistic centre/ museum created by the local community.

        

6 How many vegetable plots are there in Nomadic Gardens?          7 What types of art can you see in Nomadic Gardens?             8 Where can you see beekeepers?

3 a You’re going to watch a video about an unused urban area where local

people have made an artistic centre and community space called Fargo. Work in pairs to discuss the questions. 1 What type of place do you think the video will show? 2 What kind of things do you think it will have?

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3 None/Some of the original buildings are still there. 4 Coventry was destroyed during the First/Second World War. 5 All/Some of the city was rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s. 6 Coventry has a history of weaving and baking/ watch-making. 7 There are lot of different events including art exhibitions and food/music festivals. 8 Backhaus is a bakery/gallery. b Watch the video from 0:05–2:17 and check your answers.

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Roadmap The Roadmap Video Report Unit 3: 1: The Fargo Personal Village   Trainer   1C  A new lifestyle 3C  My kind of town

5 Read Will’s introduction. Watch the video from the

start to 2:17 and complete the sentences with a, an, the or – (no article).

Coventry, England, to see how locals have I’m in 1 old car park into 3 beautiful artistic centre! turned 2 4 Fargo Village. The original buildings from This is 5 car park are still here but 6 local community has new spaces for artists, musicians turned them into 7 plenty of and neighbourhood events and there are 8 new cafes and shops as well.

6 a Work in pairs. Complete the instructions for baking bread with the words in the box. add hairnet tin yeast

ingredients

1 Mix the

knead

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5 Put the bread into the hot 7 Add

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to the flour. .

b Label photos A–H with instructions 1–8 from Exercise 6a.

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B

2 What other uses does Backhaus have? 3 How many ingredients does the bread have? What are they? 4 What type of events does Backhaus organise?

b Watch the video from 2:17–5:17 and check your answers.

8 a Work in pairs. Complete the extracts from the video with the words in the box. find

running

setting

took

turned

1 I’m in Coventry, England, to see how locals have an old car park into a beautiful artistic centre!

3 Backhaus is not your average high street bakery. I’m out about to talk to the owner, Jess, to what’s special about it … 4 Jess and her husband Dan wanted to start a bakery with a difference, so back in 2017 they decided to join up Backhaus … the Fargo community by

the bread.

8 Put the bread into a

1 When did Jess and her husband start Backhaus?                

2 We’ve got a big history of weaving, watch-making, and place in this street. it all

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water.

4 Put on a 6

oven

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2 Make the bread into a 3

loaf

7 a Work in pairs. Answer the questions.

5 Jess while we’re waiting for the bread to cook I just a wanted to know what’s different about bakery somewhere like Fargo?

b Watch the whole video again and check your answers. c Work in pairs. Match the phrases 1–5 from Exercise 8a, to the phrases with a similar meaning a–e.

1 turned (an old car park) into  2 took place 

C

D

   a managing            b starting           

3 find out 

c discover           

4 setting up 

d happened           

5 running 

e transformed

AFTER YOU WATCH 9 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1 Would you like to visit Fargo? Why?/Why not? E

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2 Why do you think Fargo is so popular with local people and visitors to Coventry?

10 Work in pairs. Plan how you would turn an unused

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H

urban area into a community space. Talk about what type of place it would be, what type of events you would organise and who it would be for. A: Maybe we could start a type of community school. People could volunteer to teach their skills or things that they know lots about. B: That’s a good idea. And the people who go to the classes can pay as much as they can for the classes and the money can be used for things in the school.

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