Understanding mistakes (Lis+Read)

Our plan is to get you all working in September, after a week’s training starting on the 2nd, so we’ll be timetabling you for duties the following week from the 9th onward. Later in the week beginning September 23rd we have a chat with each of you to find out how you feel about being a volunteer and what extra support you need.   

New volunteers will start working in the week beginning?

ROSIE   Yeah, they’ve opened some massive new shopping centres outside my city.

COLIN   Yeah, the same with mine, but it means a lot of the shops in the city centre are closing down. But the outskirts are ideal for buildings that need a lot of space, like for conferences. They’ve opened a couple of big ones.

ROSIE   Yes, we’ve got some too. It’d be nicer to have more facilities for things like football too, but that’s not happening where I live.

What recent additions to the outskirts of their cities are both students happy about?

ROSIE   We could include something about developing disused industrial sites. It seems like a good idea because you’re not doing any harm to the natural environment.

COLIN   Yeah, but aren’t the buildings architecturally significant?

ROSIE   Not really. And what people forget is that they often used quite dangerous materials, chemicals

and things, which haven’t been properly cleared away, so the whole site has to be made safe.

COLIN   Hmm, that can’t be cheap. And I bet it’s often not budgeted for.

ROSIE   You’re right.   .

The students agree that developing disused industrial sites may

j4f will be added later

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