What are these people doing ?

They are selling newspapers.

What are these women doing ?

They are selling fruit along streets.

What are these women and men waiting for ?

They are waiting for jobs.

Nowadays, more and more people move to the city. Why? And what happens when so many people move to the city?

Unit 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE

Wednesday,December 5th 2012

Period:46 Lesson 4:Read

Unit 8Unit 8. . Country life and city lifeCountry life and city life

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- typhoon traän baõo lôùn- flood (n) : traän luït

- drought (n) : naïn haïn haùn

- struggle (n) : söï ñaáu tranh

- strain (n) : söï quaù taûi (daân soá)

- migrant

- (to) increase : gia taêng

daân di cö

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(n) : traän baõo lôùn

1/Vocabulary1/Vocabulary

- typhoon

- flood (n) : traän luït

- drought (n) : naïn haïn haùn

- struggle (n) : söï ñaáu tranh- strain (n) : söï quaù taûi (daân soá)

- a migrant

- (to) increase

: gia taêng

: daân di cö

UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFEPeriod :46 Lesson 4: READ

2/Choose T/F statements :1. The city offers plentiful good jobs.

2. In the country, farmers can get lots of money.

3. The increase in population puts a strain on .

schools, hospitals, water and electricity supplies.

4. When their parents live and work in the city,

children can live with them.

5. Governments are trying to provide facilities

for these migrants.

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People from the countryside are (1) ________ their (2) _______ to go and live in the (3)________. Farming can sometimes be a difficult life and these people from (4) __________ areas feel the (5) ________ offers more opportunities. However, many people coming to the city create (6)_________ . There may not be enough (7) ________ or (8) __________, while water and electricity supplies may not be adequate. This is a (9)__________ facing governments around the (10) ______ .

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3/Complete the summary. Use information from passage.

a) of the country side =

b) as many as needed =

c) become greater or large =

d) a great pressure =

e) a terrible event =

f) of the city or city life =

ruralplentiful

increasestrain

tragedyurban

4/ Find the word in passage that means:

-Learn by heart the new words.

-Do exercises again in notebook.

- Prepare for the write.