Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Reading Read the review of “City of Glass” by Douglas Coupland below, then decide whether the statements (1–7) are true (T) or false (F). Put a in the correct box. Justify your answer by quoting the first four words of the sentence in which you found the information. Write the words in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 26 T F Justification 0 People who don’t live in Vancouver have a negative image of the city. X The world sees Vancouver Q1 Vancouver is the origin of many modern trends. Q2 Coupland’s book aims to present the real Vancouver. Q3 The book also features Coupland’s photography. Q4 Coupland produced the book on his own. Q5 “City of Glass” shares a lot with other books of this kind. Q6 The style of the book is influenced by Japanese magazines. Q7 Coupland’s fans come from many countries. A stylish little book of text and image in which Douglas Coupland captures the essence of his home town, Vancouver. The world sees Vancouver as a beautiful city with a special secret – a snowboarding Pacific sphinx, brash and free of historical luggage. The city is also the birthplace of cultural phenom- ena such as Greenpeace, cyberpunk, the schism of Generation X and The X-Files. So – what is Vancouver really like? What does Vancouver feel like from the inside? Electric, provocative, witty and, above all, eerily perceptive, here is Vancouver inside out, from the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Cantonese. Here’s life in the social laboratory of extreme politics and extreme sports, where Europe meets Asia meets indigenous, and where the notion of Paradise at the end of a Canadian rainbow is rewritten every day. Coupland’s 25,000-word text, broken up into 49 personal categories, is matched with a like number of images reflecting the unexpected city: archival photographs, “beauty” shots, images from internationally known photo-artists, and icons such as Campbell’s soup cans with Cantonese/English/French labels (the only such cans in the world). Full of inimitable insights, this unique little book is designed by Coupland and Vancouver’s Judith Steedman in the manner of underground Japanese magazines. Unlike any take on Vancouver that anyone has seen before, Coupland’s exploration of his home city will fascinate his broad and growing international audience. 65 3 Extensive unit 3: Canada Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv