1、Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.ListeningReadingLanguage pointsHomework1.Why do people move to cities?Because they want to look for work and have a better life.2.What do cities need for the people who live there?Cities need hospitals,schools,houses,flats,shops,police,public transport,clean wat
2、erListen to the passage and answer the Questions.3.What changes have there been to your town or city over the last 50 years?The streets became better;there are more shops;a lot of young people went to bigger cities to look for work,so there are less people in my town.4.What are the problems of citie
3、s?Pollution,crime,loneliness,rubbish collection are the problems of cities.返回目录Scan the passage and divide the passage into groups of paragraphs and find the main idea of each paragraph.Paragraph 1:Parkvill was a quiet country village 50 years ago.Paragraphs 2-4:The changes to Parkvill over the last
4、 50 years.Paragraph 5:What the cities need for the people who live there.Paragraph 6:Your town has the same problems as Arnwick.Read the passage again and choose the best answer.1.The writer wants to _.a)show the disadvantages of how citieshave grown over the years.b)show that life in the city can b
5、e enjoyable c)describe the dangers of city lifed)explain what cities need to give thepeople who live there2.Parkville became a suburb of Arnwick because _.a)no one wanted to live in a villageb)people wanted better places to livec)Arnwick are largerd)people feel safer in large cities3.“But its not he
6、r fault”means Jo _.a)doesnt want to add to the traffic andpollutionb)is unhappy about adding to the problemsc)doesnt choose to go to a school so far awayd)feels bad about the traffic and pollution4.The writer has written a story probably because _.a)hes not interested in factsb)its more interetingc)
7、its too dangerous to talk about a real cityd)its clearer than if he describes a real city Read the problems and put them in order from most important(1)to least important(6).Problem Importance1.People want to leave the countryside because they want to go to the city to find jobs.62.There are not eno
8、ugh schools and hospitals in big cities.3.Traffic problems create air pollution4.There is too much rubbish in the streets.5.There arent enough police in the city.6.Its difficult to provide clean water.51243Work in groups.Discuss the suggestions of ways to improve the situation.Better public transpor
9、t and fewer private cars.People shouldnt have too many babies.Save water.People shouldnt litter anywhere.返回目录1.Jos family live in one of those new flats theres no room for small houses any more.周和家人住在那些新楼房里,那里再也没有地方盖小平房了。room此处为不可数名词,意思是“空间,地方”。如:That sofa would take up too much roomin the flat.Is t
10、here any room for me in the car?2.This adds to the traffic and pollution.add to:increase 增加如：The rise in electricity costs has added to our difficulties.3.Its difficult to run a big city,and to protect people from crime.管理一个大城市,保护人民不受侵害是很难的。protect from表示”保护/防护不受如：She wore a pair of sunglasses to pr
11、otect her eyes from the sun.Exercises请根据所给汉语提示完成英语句子,每空词数不限。1.Wearing sunglasses can _(保护你的眼睛免受阳光刺激).protect your eyes from sunshine2.There _(需要有)a big swimming pool in the villa.3.The soldiers put up their tents _(在森林边缘).4.He is used to hearing noise because he lives right _ (市中心).need to beon the
12、edge of the forestin the centre of the city5.We need _(更多的公共交通工具)and _ (更少的私家车).6.I can hear thunder _(在远处).7.The shop has _(关门)already.8.The woman is wearing _ _(和我一样的衣服).in the distancemore public transportfewer private carsclothes as mineclosed downthe same返回目录1.Write the short passage.2.Collect the solutions.返回目录
