Dear students,

this week I'd like you to focus on writing a short abstract (summary) of your posters. In your teams, put your heads together and write an academic piece of writing of about 100 words summarising the topic, main questions and possible solutions (and their pros and cons). Basically, what you've been doing throughout the semester in form of your regular reports.

Post the first draft of your summaries in the Google doc below. There's a separate document for each course.

Submit your summaries by Monday, 27 April (midnight).

If you don't know how to write a summary, take your inspiration from the video below. Please bear in mind that these are just general tips. You don't have to follow them strictly. 

Go to the ROPOT below. Read the text on Japanese agriculture adapted from Geographical (Feb 2020) and complete it with the right sentence endings.

Go to the ROPOT below and read the text on vertical farming. Based on context, complete each gap with a suitable expression.

Source: Impact 4, National Geographic, Student's book, Unit 3, pp 50 - 51

If you're interested in this topic, watch Caleb Harper, the agriculturalist, whose work is described in the ROPOT, give a talk on vertical farming.
Discuss his work in the discussion forum below. 
Do you think that vertical farming is the panacea for world hunger? Do you believe there are only advantages or could there also be disadvantages of vertical farming? If so, what are they? Give reasons for you answers.

Do you think that eating insects could be one of the ways of feeding the world's population?

Comment in the forum below. 

Now watch the video from IMPACT. Say which statements are true and which are false. Check in the key below. 

Source: Impact 4, Student's book, Unit 3, p. 53

Go to the ROPOT and read the text on eating insects.
For each gap, choose the best option in the drop-down menu.