Create Walkable Cities - Reading Worksheet 2

1. Word work – Paragraph 3: waste heat.
a. Find the sentence: “85% of the fossil fuels escaping as ‘waste heat.’”

• Underline the word “escape”.
  
• Ask yourself: What is the subject of “escape”?
  
• If the fossil fuels escape, are they being used, or are they lost?

b. Now, underline the word "waste". What does it mean?
c. Put together, what do you think these three words (waste, escape and heat) mean. Write a short guess about what the whole sentence means.

2. Word work – Paragraph 4: stroll.
a. Read the sentence:
“Taking a stroll after meals, decompressing on the walk back from a friend’s house or browsing stores on the way to my destination…”
b. Underline the three activities: “after meals”, “back from a friend’s house”, “browsing stores.”
Ask yourself: What do all these activities have in common?
c. Now, underline the word stroll. Use the examples in the sentence to guess what kind of activity a stroll might be. Write one short note: A stroll is…

3. Read paragraph 5 again.
a. Underline both uses of although in the paragraph. For each sentence, draw a line between the two parts of the sentence.
b. Rewrite the sentence with a new connector.
c. Suggest a French translation for although.

4. Read the last paragraph again. It has four different functions.
Match each part of the paragraph with one of these labels:

• Reminder of reality
• Conclusion / call to action
• Clarification
• Example

5. Connect to the whole text.
Ask yourself: Why does the writer finish with these steps?