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RECEPTIVE Grade 10
“Why Cần Thơ Joined 100 RC”
Writing captions
Pair. Square. Work with your classmate beside you, and take three minutes to agree on captions for these photographs. Then take three more minutes to explain your choice of captions with the pair of students beside you.
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As you listen to this article, take notes, and prepare to identify the author’s three main points.
Cần Thơ draws on scientists, engineers,
teachers, farmers, construction workers
and students to build a city that is resilient to natural and manmade calamity. How do you prepare for such a future? How many stakeholders from how many disciplines will it take?
To answer these questions, Cần Thơ joined a global initiative to look at
very present risks and to find lasting solutions to wicked problems.
Learning alongside 99 other cities
and climate experts worldwide, Cần Thơ is combining the knowledge of government officials, city planners, and experts of industry and agriculture.
Resilience. Examining the first
photograph of trees in this article, you observe that the tree is growing on both sides of a chasm. Not only has it survived but it has grown stronger and larger than others. Given its health, it can be said this tree is resilient.
Describe the other trees here. If they are alive, how do they continue to live? Or what causes them to die? What factors affect a tree’s resilience? Is it weather, which includes wind, heat, and rain? Or is it human activity, such as logging and burning? Note how bamboo resiliently bends with the wind.
Like trees, resilience is found among people, communities, businesses, and cities that survive,
adapt, bend, grow, and bounce back ... no matter what happens. In Cần Thơ, many parts of the city system must be resilient: water, electricity, roads, riverbanks, markets, schools, hospitals, and sewage treatment. What other parts of an urban system require resilience?
Now examine the photograph of the people walking through a drenched Cần Thơ street. How would they define resilience? What city infrastructure do they need to be resilient? What else and who else in the city are needed to build resilience? What role does this man play? What role do students play?
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adaptation affect/effect atmosphere bounce back calamity cause chasm climate change disciplines environment human-nature relationship infrastructure resilient stakeholders weather wicked
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