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UNIT 1
Maybe it’s a family out running a lemonade stand.
Hula hooping, jump roping.
Cha cha.
Free haircuts.
There’s dodgeball.
A teenager practicing their latest song.
Aerobics.
Yoga.
Advice on nutrition.
Bike.
Dancing.
Or walking.
Kids playing soccer in the middle of the street.
Mike: Open streets are when you temporarily close a street to people driving and then open it up
for people biking, walking, skating, running, pretty much do anything but drive a car. And it’s a really
amazing way to activate a street and to get a whole wide variety of people together as a community to
be, yes, physically active but also social.
Gil: It’s like an exercise in social integration. You get young and old, rich and poor, fat and skinny, you
get everybody. You enjoy the [inaudible] of the street all you need is two feet and a heartbeat.
Joe: All races, all ages, looking each other in the face, smiling, there’s sort of like this civic pride of
people being together in public space.
Janette: Well, the notion that streets are for people is a very powerful concept. And I think summer
streets underscores that concept. Celebrates the concept that streets are for people.
Enrique: It’s a wonderful experience for anyone who really live in the city, dominated by cars, just
being to enjoy places where never you imagine to be walking. Because cars really take all of our
streets.
Gil: When you take a look at any city from the air, the biggest public space are the streets. So the
[inaudible] of a street, it’s showing people that the streets can have different uses according to the
time of the day, the day of the week, the week of the year.
Mike: It’s a great way to bring in new folks who are maybe interested in biking more and walking more
and adding more physical activity to their lifestyle but aren’t sure how.

UNIT 2
Artie: What I like best about living in the quiet zone and it kind of tells the whole story, the quietness.
Some people that come here, they’ll say, “What do you do?” Well, I just say, “I’m doing it right now,
you know.” And I say, “Just listen to nature all around you.”
Michael: Green Bank, West Virginia is a very unique place. I find it ironic sometimes that, you know,
we are working with technology here that’s world class, it’s world leading. But, yet, no one here has a
cell phone.
Karen: So, a radio telescope works just like an optical telescope in that if you build it or have it in an
area where there’s a lot of radio noise, the signals you’re trying to look for would be obliterated by that
radio noise in the same way you can’t see the Milky Way in downtown New York City.
Michael: The cell phone on Mars would be the brightest radio object to us in the sky. In order to
protect the radio atmosphere in this area, Congress created the National Radio Quiet Zone. And
that’s an area that’s 13,000 square miles. There’s actually a long list of modern conveniences that we
can’t utilize here and that generally shouldn’t be utilized in the community. Gasoline engines cause

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a problem. We only use diesels on site. Wi-Fi modems, cordless telephones, no cellular phones, the
automatic door opener at the local store, no digital cameras.
Makeia: Piggy, come here. Piggy, come up here. Piggy. Hey! When you go and you tell people stuff
like that, they can’t believe it. And they’re just like, what? Like I called my college roommate and
she’s like “Well, just give me your number and I’ll text you.” And if she doesn’t have an iPhone and
we can’t do iMessage. I was like, “Well, we can’t text because I don’t have service.” And they don’t
understand. They’re just like, “How do you live without your phone? Like what do you do?” I mean,
it’s different like if you don’t go from one house to another house with WiFi, you don’t have any way to
contact other people, which is odd.
Joyce: I really enjoy it because it’s quiet, it’s peaceful, it’s beautiful. All these electronic technician
things that these kids are sitting and pushing buttons on, don’t happen here. Only way you can do
that is at home.
Karen: It would be very difficult to create a radio quiet zone these days. Because in order to create it
you would have to walk into an area and take things away from people. But living here, people have
grown up without it and they’ve built their homes, and they’ve built everything around the idea that
they will be where they don’t have wireless systems. So it’s much easier to maintain a setup like this
than it would be to create a new setup.

UNIT 3
Interviewer: How old are you?
Woman: 97. I’ll be 98 in October. I live in a retirement community. And we used to have a bus here to
take people to the grocery store twice a week, and they gave that bus up. I don’t know why. So a lot of
people were stuck around here. Like my neighbor Joyce who was a very shy person. She said to me,
“Well, if they don’t get another bus, they’ll find another place for me to live.” And she says, “I just don’t
want to go anywhere else.” I said, “Joyce, I’ll get you to the grocery store every week.” But I lost my
driver’s license because somebody thought I was too old. But I didn’t have a mark against me at all. I
was heartbroken at that, I really was. It made me feel old, it made me feel useless. I am a good driver,
I really am. I’m not fearful when I drive, but I’m very careful.
Interviewer: Are you a hot-rodder?
Woman: No.
Interviewer: Drag race a lot?
Woman: Well, I drive 65. But I obey the rules, so I went to get it back. You make a promise, it’s
important for me to keep that promise if it’s possible. And I passed it. I’m on the Earth, I’m here. If I
can contribute, I should. Shouldn’t we all? And not just think of ourselves?
(to Joyce) It’s supposed to get real cold.
Like I say, I don’t have money to give, but I can give myself, and my time. A lot of people in the world
who don’t have anybody who cares about them. So that’s the way I felt. We’re asked to love our
neighbor, be a friend. That will give you joy. I mean, I don’t do this so you think I’m great. I don’t even
think of that. My daughter says, “Mother, you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.” I’ll say, “Well,
okay.” And like I say, I do what I please. I wouldn’t do anything dangerous but, you know. How about a
cup of tea? Would you like a cup of tea and a muffin?
Interviewer: Oh, I’m good. No, I’m good, thank you. Sounds like a big wasp coming.
Woman: Oh, she’s trimming. They do the—
Interviewer: She is trimming.
Woman: Yeah, they do the yard on Mondays.

UNIT 4
Narrator: If you’re having trouble finding Mr. or Mrs. Swipe Right, it might be time to turn to
matchmaking’s ancient roots, literally. Because deep in a forest in Germany stands a 600-year-old oak
tree that has introduced hundreds of single people.

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It all began around 1890, when the forest ranger’s daughter met a chocolate maker from Leipzig. The
father did not approve of the relationship. They had to find a way to exchange messages, so they
used a tree about 300 feet away from the forest ranger’s office. A branch had broken off, forming a
hole, and it was there they put their letters.
Narrator: Once her father learned how they were secretly communicating, he finally approved of their
relationship. They married under the tree on June 2nd, 1891, after which the tree became known as
Bridegroom’s Oak.
Karl (On-screen subtitles): It functions as a modern-day marriage matchmaker. Since 1927, the tree
has had its own postal address. It’s Bridegroom’s Oak, Dodauer Forst, 23701 Eutin.
Narrator: And people still send letters to the tree to this day. But can you truly find a life partner for the
price of postage? No one knows better than Karl-Heinz.
Karl (On-screen subtitles): My name is Karl-Heinz Martens. I live in Eutin. I was the mailman for the
Bridegroom’s Oak in Eutin for at least 30 years. On average, there were five to six letters per day.
That’s roughly 1,000 letters a year that I delivered there. Letters came from around the world: From the
US, China, Japan, the Nordic countries––from South America. People go to the Oak to read the letters
and take home those they find interesting. This has created beautiful pen pals and, at times, even
marriages. There were several letters sent to the Oak that were addressed to me. I still have some of
the letters, actually.
Narrator: But there was one letter that caught his eye.
Karl (On-screen subtitles): “I’d like to get to know you. You’re my type. I, too, am alone at the
moment. I really enjoyed your interview on TV.”—Renate Heinz. Some time after that, we met. We
are married to this day. My wife, my humble self on the day that we got married. See, it says real
big: “Marriage of the Year.” I do believe there’s something magical about the tree. This aura. This
tranquility that you have there . . . This serenity cannot be matched by the internet. I’m getting
goosebumps just talking about it. It’s unparalleled. It doesn’t exist anywhere else.

UNIT 5
“The Dialogue” follows four American and four Chinese university students as they travel together
through Hong Kong and Southwest China. On their journey together, the students deepen their
understanding of one another and their abilities to bridge cultural differences.
I think the American way of communication is very straightforward. I love you, I hate you, we just tell
you. But I think the Chinese way I think is very different. We tend to use very mild words.
It’s through the mirror of others that we learn to understand ourselves.
I think it’s important to distinguish communication from language. Because they are very different
things. Language is a societal code that we decide and communication can be hand motions or,
communication is all us, it’s not just a human thing, you know, animals communicate.
I have conversations with people that are only like through facial expressions. And maybe we’re not
communicating a lot of information, but we’re connecting.
Nonverbal communication can backfire a lot, too, especially in intercultural contexts. Like Huan Yu
and I actually had a lot of misunderstandings at the beginning, because my sound for listening is Hm.
And for him, Hm is like scorn, it’s like really dismissive. And so like I would be just be doing that and
he would be getting really irritated. And I had no idea why he was getting so upset. And so little things
like that are communicating so much.
More that 90% of communication is nonverbal. In your postures, you can totally define someone else,
the way that you talk to them, the way that you don’t talk to them, the way that you cut them off, the
way that you give them space. You’re telling them way more than a mouthful.
In a language system, where there’s an extra space after a statement is made, it can come across as
arrogant if an American is filling that space with small talk. In the Chinese perspective, it might be like,
he’s not giving me time to respond, he’s trying to dominate. Where Americans might be like Chinese
people are very quiet, very shy generally as people and that’s part of their culture. But that might not
be the case.

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A lot of things are actually not said verbally. Even if it is said verbally, it does not necessarily mean it.
There is an implicit meaning behind those words. To understand a dialogue, you have to understand the
context behind it. It’s not just saying the words, you’re interpreting what the words really mean.

UNIT 6
Narrator: Tea is the most popular drink in the world. And there are countless ways we make and
consume it. But if you want to drink tea in the oldest way we still know of, you’ll first need to hike deep
into the remote Tea Mountains of southwest China and hand-pick leaves and buds from tea trees that
are hundreds of years old. It’s a long way to go for authentic Chinese tea, but one person is doing it.
Shunan: My name’s Shunan Teng. I’m the owner of Tea Drunk, which is a teahouse in New York City. We
specialize in historic Chinese tea. Historic teas really represent the pinnacle of tea culture. And these
teas are usually not mass produced and they try to be as authentic to the tea as possible. It’s almost like
a masterpiece of music played versus a practice or an original piece of artwork versus the copies.
Narrator: The masterpiece tea, so to speak, comes from ancient tea trees that grow in the wild.
They only bud for 15 days out of the year. So Shunan must race each Spring to find the trees and
harvest them in time with the help of local farmers.
Shunan: The best tea trees are always on some of the hardest to get to places. Because they need
to be on very steep slopes. We usually motorcycle a little bit. Sometimes we tread water. Sometimes
we climb. In this region, it’s not uncommon for tea trees to grow for several hundred years. These tea
trees right now, is at its prime and this is what tea is meant to taste like. Mm, tasty. Once we pick the
tea, we need to spread it out in a whole area where the water can travel out before we can wok fry the
tea. This step is to kill the enzymes, so the tea’s fermentation can be stopped. Then we take the tea
leaves out and then we roll the tea.
Once the sun dries the tea, you need to pick out any discoloration. This sorting process usually takes
months to finish because we do have to do them one by one with every single tea.
Narrator: Months will go by before this tea is ready to be poured out. But the journey is well worth it to
Shunan.
Shunan: Those extreme fine points in taste that tea offers us, I think it provides us a level of joy that’s
beyond anything else. And my job here is to preserve this art. And hopefully even push it to a new height.

UNIT 7
Narrator: To shake or bump? That, my friends, is the question. Ah, the handshake. For ages, a
person’s handshake has represented an offering of peace, a sign of congratulations, and a symbol
of mutual agreement. But is handshaking the safest or cleanest way of saying hello? Could there be
another method? What about the fist bump? Dr. Tom McClellan knows about the importance of clean
hands, he’s a surgeon. So he conducted a study that’s in the Journal of Hospital Infection and asked
the question, is it better to shake or bump?
Dr. McClellan: In the hospital environment, we’re confronted by handshakes all day. And we know
that a handshake is enough to transmit infectious diseases. But what we wanted to learn is whether a
fist bump, which has grown from pop culture obscurity to mainstream popularity, was cleaner than a
handshake. Were there actual medical benefits to a fist bump rather than a handshake?
Narrator: So, Dr. Tom and his team of researchers set up the following test. They traveled throughout
the hospital shaking hands with 20 other health care workers. Along the way, they pushed elevator
buttons, used door handles, typical stuff. When they were finished, they planted their hands in a Petri
dish to see how many germs they had collected. Then they repeated the entire process but this time
instead of handshakes, they fist bumped.
Dr. McClellan: We found that the growth after 72 hours of incubation of bacteria on the hand shakers
was four times greater than that on fist bumpers.
Narrator: Think about that. Four times more. You’ll have four times less yuck on your hands if you
bump instead of shake. Four times less means your chance of spreading, catching, and becoming a
walking germ bag is reduced big time.

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Dr. McClellan: We think if you’re able to reduce the amount of germs on your hands by 400 percent,
now that’s significant.
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UNIT 8
Mark: I started thinking about where I hadn’t been before. I found a reference and it said something to
the effect of the fascinating and mysterious Musandam Peninsula. And that was about all it said.
Jimmy: Mark Synnott is probably one of the most prolific exploratory rock climbers of his generation.
Mark: What a climb. Succeeded.
Jimmy: He always has a plan to go somewhere that you didn’t even know had rock climbing or you
didn’t even know existed.
Alex: Some of the most interesting stuff I’ve ever seen in the world. Sort of jagged limestone peaks
that just fall straight into the water. Where rock and water and that’s it.
Hazel: We should be able to find something good. I mean it’s just miles and miles of coastline of rock.
Mark: We’re hoping that the rock is going to be good.
Jimmy: Soloing is defined by climbing without a rope. And so deep-water soloing is soloing rock
climbs above deep water.
Mark: It’s a relatively new branch of rock climbing.
Hazel: Deep water soloing can be dangerous. The water turns into rock when you go high enough.
You will really hurt yourself.
Mark: This is the first time that I’ve ever deep water soloed.
Mark’s friend: Oh, come on, dude. Oh. Come on, dude. Oh, my god! Oh. You gave up.
Mark: Climbing with two young guns, as we like to call them, and they’re telling me about stories of
people who have died, who landed wrong.
Jimmy: It’s kind of an interesting juxtaposition to have Mark, who’s this veteran climber, who’s climbed
all over the world. And so, he’s kind of at that point in his career where he’s brought things down
a notch. But then, you have Alex and Hazel who are at the point in their career where they’re only
bringing it up notches constantly.
Alex: We tried it in the evening at sort of lowish tide and you could actually hit the bottom.
Mark: They’re pushing me. I’ve had to expand the boundaries of what I thought was reasonable
to climb without a rope on this trip. It’s been really cool to experience all these kind of different
perspectives on, you know, a landscape that’s really different. The climb that we did of this huge
buttress above the village of Sibi—we’re in for it. I mean, this thing is gigantic—was just an amazing
day in the mountains. One of my best experiences because it got us up high. Could see all these
limestone fingers extending out into the Persian Gulf. I know that that will be, you know, one of those
days that I kind of always look back on as one of the highlights of my climbing career.
To see the world really is kind of the essence of it for me. The cultural experience and to meet new
people. I’m doing this for the adventure.

UNIT 9
Nicole: Detroit is a place of innovators, creatives. It’s a great place to come and start over again. I
think it’s definitely important for people who belong to that community to kind of help rebuild it.
Tim: During the crisis and during the foreclosure and the bankruptcy pf Detroit a lot of people lost
their homes and moved out. Unfortunately, within the area, the city is not building any new homes. By
activating these vacant spaces and transforming them into urban farms or bee farms we’re able to
have vast amounts fresh vegetables that our bees and our pollinators can cross-pollinate so they can
for the community.

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Nicole: What we do is transform Detroit vacant lots into urban bee farms.
Tim: All my life I’ve been born and raised here in the Motor City. My grandmother would always create
home remedies whenever me and my brother would get sick. So when I got sick in December, I went
back to those methods. I came across the power of local raw honey from a local store in Ferndale,
Michigan.
Nicole: When it worked, like, it clicked. Like okay, let’s study more about this honey and its medicinal
properties. Since we started it has been the year of the yes. When opportunities come, we say yes.
And it has helped us get to this.
Tim: We’re definitely changing the typical stereotypes of beekeeping, particularly here in America.
You typically don’t see too many beekeepers of color. By my interest, I want to help inspire others so
that they can do the same thing. It’s important to expose our children to something that I know they’re
not familiar with. For one, we never know where it might take them. A lot of these children never even
seen a honeycomb before and they have very little knowledge of bees, so it feels great to educate
them on the importance of honeybee conservation.
Tim: When I was a kid, it wasn’t cool to be into science or to keep bees or to be outside in nature.
So we really didn’t see a lot of those positive figures of people out there. So, I think it’s important for
someone like me to be in a position of leadership to inspire other people, that it’s cool to learn about
science. It’s cool to give back to your environment and your community.
Nicole: When people find out about our organization, they’re like wait, you’re in Detroit? The shock
value when we get people and we tell that we’re beekeepers and they look at us twice. You don’t have
to have a million dollars in your bank account to start an idea. Go for it.
Tim: Starting a nonprofit organization within the community, it helps inspire others to feel like they can
do the same thing. It’s important to pass on this education to our generation so that they can create a
better future for themselves.
Nicole: There was a problem that we seen with our city, there was a problem that we seen with our
honeybees. What we’re doing here is solving both of those problems.

UNIT 10
China has so much diversity in its languages and people, but there are traditions that bring the
population together as one distinct Chinese culture. Chinese New Year, also Lunar New Year, is one
such event, as is one of the favorite parts of this holiday: the red envelopes.
Red envelopes containing money are gifts exchanged at Chinese New Year, as well as other events
like birthdays and weddings. Let’s take a look at some of the do’s and don’ts for this longstanding
tradition.
For starters, red envelopes have a lot of personality these days—you can get more traditional ones, or
fancier or even playful ones.
Not everyone gets red envelopes, and not everyone gives them. Usually family members and relatives
give red envelopes to children at Chinese New Year. It’s also common for working adults to get one
from their boss.
You don’t have to be rich to hand out red envelopes—it can be pretty reasonable to afford. A gift
equivalent to $7 would be fine for a person to give their niece or nephew.
However, if you do give money, it’s not just the amount that matters. You shouldn’t give old or dirty
bills. All of the bills should be new and clean.
There are some lucky numbers in Chinese culture people often choose as the gift amount. But
whatever you do, you’d better not give an amount with 4’s. The color red is lucky in Chinese culture,
but the number four is not.
No cash? No problem. The red envelope has also gone mobile. You can easily gift them by phone on
the popular WeChat app.
But there’s one thing that doesn’t have a tradition or custom around it: what to do with the money!
Spend it, save it . . . just don’t waste it!

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UNIT 11
Dr. Wiseman: Extend the first finger of your dominant hand and now you’ve got five seconds to trace
a capital Q on your forehead. Some people draw the Q in a way that can be read by somebody facing
them with the tail on the left side of their forehead. If you did that, then you tend to be aware of how
other people see you. You’re happy being the center of attention, and you’re a good liar. Other people
draw the Q so they themselves can read it with the tail on the right hand side of their forehead. If you
did that, then you tend to be more of an introvert and not very good at lying. So if you want to gain a
quick and fun insight into somebody, just ask them to draw a Q on their forehead.

UNIT 12
When I look out over the forest, my home, I fear for its future. I was a young man when I moved here.
Many people arrived at the same time. We set up farms, built our homes, and started families. At
first, we cut the forest to plant our crops, moving to new land when the soil wore out. Our life was not
sustainable. We were destroying the forest. It was clear that we needed to change our way of life. To
think more about our future.
20 years ago, I discovered a new way to farm planting trees with my crops. The system worked in
balance with nature. Now, my garden provides everything we need to live, and I am able to feed my
family without cutting down the forest. I grow each tree myself from seed until they are ready to plant.
Since I began, I have planted more than 30,000 trees.
I always try to share what I have learned with others. Now I travel around the region to help local
people to live more sustainably. Without trees the earth becomes barren and our crops will not grow.
Agroforestry helps the land to recover and lets farmers survive without clearing new forests. The
trees we plant provide shade, absorb carbon from the air, and put nutrients into the soil. Each tree is
protected and cared for into the future.
I work with families to grow fruit and vegetables, helping them to start garden of their own and
providing the first steps they need to begin. It is important for people to have fresh food and learn
to live in harmony with the forest. Everything in life begins with a seed. It is the same for a plant, a
tree, or an idea. Each new tree makes a difference. It is a very special feeling to plant something
and watch it grow and flourish. To see something so delicate become so strong. I hope that my
grandchildren will be able to stand beneath the shade of the trees I plant today. It seems the forest is
always asking us to pay attention. Asking us to open our eyes and ears to the world. it has given us
so much. Now, it is time for us to give something back.

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