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SPECTRUM 2
SPECTRUM 2
4-5-6-REVIEW
Reading The students creative ideas helped to
transform a typical London street into a
10 Read the text. Match the headings AE to the friendly and helpful place with a strong sense
paragraphs 13. There are two extra headings of community.
which you do not need to use. (3 marks)
A Sharing your thoughts 11 Read the text again. Answer the questions.
B Planning (12 marks)
C A transport solution 1 What was the research project about?
D Recycling ___________________________________
E Bringing people together ___________________________________
2 Where did the research project take place?
Designing in the street ___________________________________
A group of Design students from Sheffield ___________________________________
Hallam University in the UK did a research 3 How did the students begin the project?
project about creative street design. The ___________________________________
students focused on a section of Gloucester ___________________________________
Road in London. 4 How could people use the Swap Box?
___________________________________
The students started by watching what ___________________________________
happened in the street over a week. They 5 What were two reasons the Gossip Vehicle was
also talked to people in the street, asking environmentally friendly?
their opinions about how they wanted the ___________________________________
street to change in the future. The students ___________________________________
also wanted to encourage a sense of 6 What was the result of the students experiment
community. in the street?
___________________________________
___________________________________
(1) ______
One of the ideas they had was Bus Stop
Messaging. They put a large notepad on a
bus stop with the question What are you
thinking about to pass the time? Quite a few
people used it.
(2) _______
The next experiment was a Swap Box. This
was a box that people could leave things in
that they no longer wanted and ask for things
they wanted. Each object in the Swap Box
had a paper tag attached with a short story
about the history of the object and why the
owner wanted to swap it.
(3) _______
Another funny idea that emerged as a result
of the research was the Gossip Vehicle. This
is an electric car that could be shared by the
people living on the street in an effort to
reduce the number of cars in the area. To
open the car door, the driver has to whisper
an exciting piece of news or gossip!
SPECTRUM 2
SPECTRUM 2