104 Language skills Extras Explore 8 Big brother is watching you Spaces The photos below are from an exhibition called ‘Post-it® city’. Look at the photos and: ■■ describe how the spaces are used in each of the photos. ■■ explain why you would like / why you wouldn’t like to live in these places. ■■ speculate about which cities they are (Hanoi/Vietnam, Barcelona/Spain, Warsaw/Poland or Cairo/Egypt). Speaking 16 A B C D Read the captions and check. Which photos do they match with? Reading 17 Every day in Hanoi, more than 2,000 women take to the streets selling a kind of noodle soup – Pho’ Bó, a mixture of soy, noodles, vegetables, pork or beef in a hot broth. Each of these soup-sellers carries a pole balanced across her shoulders: hanging from one side is a soup pot with chopsticks, plates and whatever else you might need for eating; on the other side, stacked in order, are tiny, coloured stools. This complex arrangement quickly becomes an improvised outdoor restaurant for up to ten people. 2 In an overcrowded city, living anywhere will do – even a cemetery could be called home. Described by politicians as a refuge for criminals, chosen by filmmakers and novelists as locations for stories of marginalisation, or declared as areas in need of protection by UNESCO, these makeshift homes remain a sign of real poverty. 3 Once held around the edge of an abandoned football stadium, Jarmark used to be Europe’s biggest open-air market. For many years, it brought a sense of community to traders and shoppers from different nationalities who otherwise would have been on the streets. It was closed in 2010, to be replaced by a new National Stadium, one of the venues for the Euro 2012 football tournament. 1 Read the captions again. Which place: 1 has now disappeared? 2 is viewed differently by different people? 3 gives a part of the population something to do? 4 is the result of a desperate situation? 5 is viewed the most positively? 6 brought different kinds of people together? 7 has to be set up again every morning? 18 Reclaimed as provisional allotments, these no-man’s lands found along rivers and railway lines now serve a real purpose. Here, retired citizens build precarious sheds from waste and grow fruit and vegetables where they can. Making use of waste ground in an original way, the project gives these elderly people a function in life. 4 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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