III. Realization ( Осмысление ). Speaking and Listening

Speaking and Listening

4. Group work. Group №1. Role-play the following situation: Your client commissions you to develop the flowerbed design. Talk over the matter and develop the flowerbed design. Take into account the following points:

· flowerbed type and its functions;

· customer requirements;

· site location;

· soil type;

· stock of plants;

· plants’ color scheme;

· small architectural forms;

· needed materials;

· cost of works.

5.Groupwork. Group №2. Role-play the following situation: Your client commissions you to develop the flower garden design. Talk over the matter and develop the flower garden design. Take into account the following points:

· garden style;

· site location;

· site vegetation;

· site soil;

· customer requirements;

· stock of plants;

· plants’ color scheme;

· small architectural forms;

· needed materials;

· cost of works.

Writing & Speaking

6. Groupwork. Work out the structure of the presentation.

Reflection (Рефлексия)

Listening and Speaking

7. Groupwork.   Present your projects to the clients. Get ready to discuss them answering questions and persisting in your own opinion. (See appendix 1.)

Speaking

8. Groupwork.  Reflect on your own professional speech. (See appendix 4.)

9. Groupwork.   Reflect on the professional speech of other groups. (See appendix 4.)

Writing

10. Write an essay reflecting on your project and its success.

 

Unit 10

PROBLEM SOLVING IN GETTING A JOB

 

I. Warming up (Разминка)

Listening & Speaking

1. Groupwork.Discuss the following:

Is it easy to get a good job in landscape architecture activity? What problems do job applicants face in getting a job?

 

II. Evocation (Вызов)

Writing, Listening & Speaking

2. Groupwork. Read the following information and formulate the job applicant problem making 8 questions which begin with the word “how” and choose the best version:

You are a job applicant for the landscape architect’s position. Your employee is giving you a job for a trial engagement. You will get a job providing that you will make a successful garden design for a client. But your client isn’t consumed with the desire to spend much money on this project. His requirements consist in the following: to plant grass and a few trees, create three flowerbeds with the most common flowers; constructed elements are not necessary on the site.

 

III. Realization (Осмысление)

Writing, Listening & Speaking

3. Group work. Find as many as possible solutions to the problem and write them down

4. Group work. Mark solutions which are workable in the following way:

“+” – a suitable solution;

“+ -“ – the solution suits but it isn’t quite original;

“-“ – the solution isn’t suitable for all the groups;

5. Group work. Write down the positive and negative points of solutions, analyse the list of solutions and chose the optimum alternative, ground your choice.

IV. Reflection (Рефлексия)

Listening & Speaking

6. Group work. Work out a plan of the solution implementation and present it to the class.

 

Writing

7. Write a short essay entitled “Problems with finding a job in landscape Architecture”.

Module 5

LANDSCAPE STYLES

Unit 11

PARKS’ AND GARDENS’ STYLES

I. Warming up (Разминка)

Listening & Speaking

1. Pair work. Read the quotes and discuss the following: Have these quotes made you interested? Why? Interpret the quotes and discuss the implication of the quotes. Get ready to discuss different points of view with the group. (See appendix 1):

a. "The principal reason for the existence of a garden is the esthetic pleasure which it gives to the spectator." - Jacques Boyceau de La Barauderie

b. “A formal garden is like a bud in a vase: magnificent, elegant, and somehow naturally artificial.”   Flower quote by Marcel Proust.

 

II. Evocation (Вызов)

Speaking & Listening

2. Group work. Reflect on the following questions and report your ideas to the class. Get ready to discuss different points of view:

1. What is your idea of a landscape design style?

2. What elements does a style include?

3. What are the features of any style?