Notes that could have been taken from the article. Find your own system to retain key ideas.
   
 
Click on the player below and listen to the audio document. It is very simply a rendering of the notes and sketches above. Play it several times until it becomes familiar. You may access the transcript by pressing the A2-B1 button.
Following the audio document, try to speak out aloud until you get the rhythm and every pause or hesitation right. Then record yourself, and get ready to speak it out to your tutor.
 
Among the various meanings of the word here, as proposed by the Merriam-Webster, choose the one most appropriate in the context.

Among the examples given, select those that make sense:
(a, b, c, d or e?)

 
   
 
The landscape planners of the 18th century had delighted in variety, contrast and irregularity. Those in charge of Britain’s post-war reconstruction, Pevsner felt, should take their cue from an approach to planning that had been flexible, pragmatic, sensitive to feelings as well as intellect, and essentially democratic in its respect for all tastes.

From that statement (you can read the original page by clicking on the visual) can you induce Pevsner's --and of course Cullen's-- various criticisms against post-war, modernist reconstruction? You may use the grid below (careful, you will have to change the "I" into "He..."!) and find other adjectives through a dictionary here. Take a few notes to prepare a 3-minute oral explanation.

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

A simple sketch sometimes is more telling than textual note-taking.

In the experience that Cullen describes as "a journey through pressures and vacuums, a sequence of exposures and enclosures, of constraint and relief", some sensations appear to be positive, others negative. Have you ever felt this in a city? Which? Explain.

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The player below orally develops the notes and sketches above. Play it several times. You may access the transcript by pressing the A2-B1 button.
Following the audio document, try to speak out aloud until you get the rhythm and every pause or hesitation right. Then record yourself, and get ready to speak it out to your tutor.
   
  What is actually Cullen's vision of a town successfully designed ? You can use this below.
 
 
   
The basic strategy here is that instead of copying the article and reading it aloud, you have digested its contents and made them yours, and nobody can say you have plagiarized it. You have simply absorbed the information.