Guerilla Gardening RAW DOC

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• Studiejaar 2

GUERILLA GARDENING

A project for the rebels

• learn useful vocabulary
  around gardening.
    
• learn all about guerilla gardening.
   
• read a text and answer questions.
• watch a TED-talk by a well-known guerilla gardener and answer questions.
• research and present Dutch initiatives for guerilla gardening.
• propose an idea for your own guerilla garden initiative.

use the worksheet

During this project you will:

GUERILLA GARDENING

A2

B1

B2

C1

C2

text A2-B1

text B2-C1

• First, make the preparation assignment (= vocabulary)
• Read the text
• Finish task 1 and 2
• Class discussion

• a truck                           = a large road vehicle; a lorry.
• guerilla gardening         = growing plants without permission on someone else’s land or in a                                                  public space.
• a mayor                         = a person who is elected to be the leader of a town or city.

• soil                                 = the brown material that plants grow in.
• the council                     = a group of people who form the government of a town.

• a seed                           = a small object that a plant produces that grows into a new plant.

• bamboo                         = a tall tropical grass that grows very fast.
• community service        = work that someone has to do because they committed a crime.

text A2-B1

• a spade                         = a tool used for digging, especially soil.
• guerilla gardening         = growing plants without permission on someone else’s land or in a                                                  public space.
• an allotment                  = a small piece of ground that a person can rent to grow fruit,
  

                                                vegetables and flowers.

• vandalisme                   = the crime of damaging property that belongs to other people.
• manure                         = solid waste from animals that is put round plants to help them grow.

• deprived                       = not having the things that are necessary for a comfortable or
  

                                                happy life.

• bamboo                        = a tall tropical grass with hard, hollow stems.
• community service       = work that someone has to do as punishment for committing a
  

                                                crime.

text B2-C1

a spade

a mayor

vandalism

a lorry

deprived

bamboo

soil

a seed

an allotment

the council

community service

manure

• Plan 1: Guerrilla gardening
• Plan 2: The bamboo forest
• Plan 3: The vertical farm
• Plan 4: Guerilla gardening 2.0
• Plan 5: The right place to fight 

What happens during each plan?

TASK 1

use the worksheet

True or False?

TASK 2

use the worksheet

CLASS DISCUSSION

Did you like the story?     Do you think Plan 5 will work?

Find the texts and worksheets:

A2-B1
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/story-zone/a2-b1-stories/the-green-wars-a2-b1
B2-C1:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/story-zone/b2-c1-stories/the-green-wars-b2-c1

RON FINLEY

scan with your phone

Watch the video and 

answer the questions.

the garden Gangsta

SOURCE:
https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/a-guerilla-gardener

(VERTICAL) 

URBAN FARMS

COMMUNITY GARDENS

SEED BOMBS

FOOD DESERTS

WORKSTATIONS

1

4

3

2

WORKSTATIONS

SEED BOMBS

FOOD DESERTS

COMMUNITY GARDENS

(VERTICAL) 

URBAN FARMS

https://www.esl-lab.com/academic-english/garden-secrets-script/

text + worksheet

HOW TO seed bombs, unkept garden patch, 

"South Central Los Angeles: home of the drive-thru 

and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

FOOD DESERTS

Quote by Ron Finley, guerrilla gardener (US)

SOURCE:

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/a-guerilla-gardener

SEED BOMBS

"Secret seeds
do great deeds"

COMMUNITY GARDENS

"Teach one how to garden and the whole neighborhood gets tomatoes.''

"To most people, this

 is just dirt. To a farmer, it's potential."

(VERTICAL) 

URBAN FARMS

B2-C1 Listening Practise:

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/a-guerilla-gardener

Worksheet:
https://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary_worksheets/hobbies/the_garden/TED_Guerilla_Gardening_Workshe_959460/

Source:  

https://edepot.wur.nl/528117

TEST Wat voor Guerrilla Gardener ben jij?
https://guerrillagardeners.nl/tips/aandeslag/

Seed Bombs
Home-Grown Vegetable Gardens
Food Desserts
Tuinboon-Je-Mee
Boomspiegels / Geveltuinen
NK Tegelwippen

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-gardening-and-plants-community-gardens/id1598253687?i=1000578509807

https://esl.culips.com/2015/07/simplifed-speech-02-gardening/

https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/gardening-show/

https://www.esl-lab.com/academic-english/garden-secrets/

A2 PODCAST gardens

A2 Gardening audio convo

B1 gardening radio show

Source podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-gardening-and-plants-community-gardens/id1598253687?i=1000578509807

Source audio convo:
https://esl.culips.com/2015/07/simplifed-speech-02-gardening/

Source radio show:
https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/gardening-show/

quiz podcast a2 gardens

Colloquial expressions:

To ‘spring into action’ – means to become suddenly very active and energetic.

To ‘beat around the bush’ – This means to discuss a matter without coming to the point. So, if you say to someone, “Please, don’t beat around the bush,” it means you are asking them to be direct and stop talking about many unimportant things.

Green thumb – A person who is good at growing plants. Eg: “She has a green thumb, she can grow anything!”
 

Vocabulary:

Seedlings - a young plant, especially one raised from seed and not from a cutting.

Pull out the weeds – removing the weeds from the garden bed by loosening the soil around the weed and pulling the entire weed up from the root.

Dig a hole – making a hole in the ground.

Mowing the lawn – to cut the grass on a lawn with a lawn mower.

Watering the plants – to pour water on to plants or the soil that they are growing in.

Growing a seed - to grow by planting seeds rather than by some other method.

Planting a tree – the process of transplanting tree seedlings.

Transcript:

(Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript)

Hi! Welcome to the SBS Learn English podcast, where we help Australians to speak, understand and connect.  

We acknowledge the Cammerygal people as the Traditional Owners of the land we’re recording on – and pay respect to their elders past and present.

My name is Josipa, and like you, I need to practise new words and phrases constantly.

But before I get into the lesson, let me shout out to Marie, who left us a review on Apple podcasts. She said, "That's fantastic, exactly what I was looking for. "

Well, thank you, Marie. If you are looking for lessons on particular topics or just have general feedback, we’d love it if you also left a review. You might be the next shout out we do!

So, let's spring into action, become active and start working on our phrases for my favourite season of the year. Spring! Yes. Spring is finally here; plants are growing, and everyone wants to talk about gardening . Just like Susie and Allan; let's hear them,

Allan

You have some lovely natives, Susie. Where’ll you put them?

Susie

They need partial sun, and they’ll make a lovely ornamental garden, so I was thinking… in this corner here.

Allan

I love natives because they are low maintenance and not too thirsty. That’s good for me because I don’t have a green thumb!

Josipa

Allan asked Susie about her native plants. Native animals or plants, like the golden wattle, Australia's national flower, are indigenous to a place.

Or plants can be introduced, which is when a species is accidentally or deliberately brought into an area. So, you could ask someone,

In your area, is it natives or mainly introduced trees and plants?

Susie has a special corner in mind for her native plans.

Susie

They need partial sun, and they’ll make a lovely ornamental garden.

Do your plants need full sun or part shade? Is your garden bed in a partially or fully shaded spot? If you don’t have a garden, what kind would like to have, flower, vegie or ornamental?

An ornamental garden is designed because of how it looks than the production of crops like vegetables or herbs.

They will often include plants with flowers or colourful foliage (that means leaves).

You could also describe your garden as low maintenance if it doesn’t need a lot of work like weeding, pruning.

Your garden may be drought tolerant if it doesn’t require a lot of water or thirsty if it’s the opposite.

Native Australian plants are often low maintenance and drought tolerant.

You can use the word ‘tolerant’ to describe other things related to plants as well. Next time you are buying plants, look out for the phrases ‘sun tolerant’, ‘pest tolerant’ or ‘wind tolerant’.

And how are you as a gardener?

Do you have a green thumb?

I don’t have a green thumb unfortunately.

To have a green thumb means to have an unusual ability to make plants grow well.

I hope Susie does! She gave Allan a big list and sent him shopping for some garden tools. Let’s check on him,

Allan

Ah, there it is. Susie’s list. …What does it say?... A trowel, secateurs, an angled shovel… l wonder if I can get her an angled shovel at a good price. What else? Pruners, watering can, and shears. Wait a second, she added a hose here at the bottom of the page as well.

Allan is buying some gardening tools. First, he mentioned,

A trowel, secateurs, a shovel.

A trowel is a small, handheld tool with a curved scoop for lifting plants or earth.

Secateurs are a pair of pruning clippers for use with one hand.

Allan had a specific shovel in mind.

I wonder if I can get an angled shovel at a good price.

An angled shovel is a shovel with a blade that makes it makes it good for digging. 

Then we heard Allan mention,

Pruners, a watering can, shears and a hose.

Pruners, watering can, shears, a hose and let’s add lawnmower and fork. These are the names of some of the gardening tools.

Now Allan is talking with Susie, who, for the purpose of this dialogue. is a horticulturalist, an expert in gardens.

Allan

I’m looking for some easy- to- care perennials.

Susie

Do you prefer seedlings or seeds?

Allan

I’m not sure, what would you suggest?

Susie

Well… seedlings are quicker and easier. If you want to sow seeds, this will save you money but it will take longer.

Ok, let's not beat around the bush. We have a lot to explain. 

By the way, to “beat around the bush” means to discuss a matter without getting to the point. 

So, if I say to someone, "Please, don't beat around the bush," I'm asking them to get to the point and stop talking about many unimportant things. 

So, Allan is buying some flowers. He said, 

I’m looking for some easy-to-care perennials.

A perennial plant, or simply perennial, is a plant that can keep growing over many seasons. This is different to annual plants that only last for one season.

Susie then asked,

Do you prefer seedlings or seeds?

Seedlings are young plants developing from seeds. Basically, seedlings are seeds that have already sprouted.

They will save you some time, which comes at a price. Just like Susie said,

Susie

Well… seedlings are quicker and easier. If you want to sow seeds, this will save you money but it will take longer.

Sowing is another way to say planting, but only if you are talking about seeds. You can sow seeds but you can’t sow plants. You have to plant plants! Confusing, right!

Susan: Hi. Welcome back to Susan’s Gardening Show. I’m Susan, and we’re ready to take our next caller. We have Mark from Seattle. Are you still there, Mark?

Mark: Uh. Yeah, but maybe not for long.

Susan: So, how can we help you today?

Mark: Okay. Uh, my wife is really into gardening, and about five years ago, she received a beautiful climbing rose bush . . . I think an Agatha Christie [That’s a nice one.] from her mother who has passed away. Anyway, the rose plant seems to be on its last leg.

Susan: Really? Normally, that rose is really quite hardy [I know.], and it’s very disease-resistant, too. [I know.]

Mark: Yeah. Well, this situation ISN’T normal. You see, about a week ago, I was doing some yard work, and I was using some weed killer [UH-oh.], yeah, to try to get rid of some terrible weeds and . . .

Susan: Did you spray the roses?

Mark: Uh, well, not exactly. I set the spray container down near the roses while I was trimming a bush, and the container must have gotten knocked over, and the weed killer soaked into the ground near the roses.

Susan: How much weed killer are you talking about?

Mark: Uh, about six or seven quarts (about six liters or 1.6 gallons), I think. [Oh, that’s a lot.] You know, I mean when you put . . .

Susan: And the roses? What do they look like now?

Mark: Oh, Dead, real dead. Dead as a doornail dead, but my wife hasn’t seen them yet.

Susan: Really? What have you done? Blindfolded her?

Mark: Well, I’ve kept her away from that side of the house where the roses are, but she is bound to see them at some point.

Susan: Yeah, yeah. You’ve got a problem.

Mark: I mean, is there anything I can do to revive them?

Susan: Not unless you’re a magician.

Mark: Well, can you recommend a quick-growing variety that can take its place?

Susan: Marc. I’m sorry. You’ve made a mistake . . . A big mistake.

Mark: . . . except that my wife warned me this could happen . . . Oh, man.

Susan: Oh, shoot. Listen. You made a blunder. A big mistake. A really big mistake. But unless your wife goes on vacation for a couple of years, you’re not going to be able to replace the roses that fast.

Mark: So, any recommendation? I mean, what do I do?

Susan: You need to talk to her.

Mark: Are you kidding? You don’t know my wife.

Susan: I’m sorry. Look. You’ve waited long enough. Don’t let the grass grow around your feet. Say something, but be sure to hide the garden shears before you do. Kneel down; ask for forgiveness now.

Mark: But that’s what I did when I killed her prized apple tree last year.

Susan: No way. Really?

Mark: Oh, man. Oh! She’s coming in from outside [Oh, no, oh no.].

Susan: One final word: Hide the weed killer. [But . . .] Thanks, Mark. That’s all the time we have for now. Let’s move on to the next caller.

Vocabulary and Sample Sentences

be into something (idiom): be interested in something

– I was really into running for awhile until I injured my knee.

be on one’s last leg (idiom): be ready to die or give out because of lack of energy

– My truck is on its last leg, so I need to start looking for a new one.

hardy (adjective): strong or sturdy

– You need to plant hardy varieties of bushes in this area because of the harsh winter weather.

get rid of (idiom): throw away or discard

– You should get rid of these plants; they are growing out of control.

be/looks dead as a doornail (idiom): undoubtedly dead

– Unfortunately, our pet chicken in the garden looks as dead as a doornail. It must have died during the snowstorm last night.

be bound to (verb): be likely to happen

– Seeing that you have taken so good care of your garden, you are bound to have a great harvest this summer and fall.

revive (verb): bring back to life or make something more alive

– I think it is too late. No matter how much you water that plant, you won’t be able to revive it.

blunder (noun; also a verb): a careless or embarrassing mistake

– It was a real blunder not to have watered the garden more frequently. Now, none of the plants will survive.

let the grass grow around your feet (idiom): wait, waste time, or delay doing something

– When it comes to doing well in school, you should never let the grass grow around your feet. Get busy and study every day.

shears (noun): a gardening tool that looks like a large pair of scissors for cutting and trimming bushes and plants

– Does anyone know where the shears are? I need them to trim the bushes in the front yard.

Source: https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/gardening-show/

Pre-Listening Exercise

What types of gardens do people grow in your area? Do people raise flowers and/or vegetables?

Idioms

“let the grass grow around your feet” = wait, waste time, or delay in doing something

“Don’t let the grass grow around your feet. Stop sitting at home and get out and apply for a job.”

“turn a new leaf” = change one’s behavior

“I don’t think he’ll turn over a new leaf just because he is getting married.”Post-Listening Exercise

What are the benefits or challenges of trying to raise your own fruits, vegetables, and even herbs?

Online Investigation

Imagine that are moving to Denver, Colorado, in the United States for a couple of years, and you are into gardening. Because you are concerned about maintaining a healthy diet, you want to look into what edible plants you can grow in the area. Use the Internet to identify two vegetables and two fruits/berries that can be raised in that area. Then, answer the following questions:

What are the names of the plants you found?

When is the best time to plant them?

What is the growing season for each?

When are the vegetables ready for harvest?

In what kinds of recipes can the food items be used?

Source: https://www.esl-lab.com/difficult/gardening-show/