1. Topic 4 Hometown and Weather Pre-Speaking Exercise Surrounding landscape 周围的风景 Coastal city 沿海城市；海滨城市 Major industries 主要工业 Finance area 金融地区 Job opportunities 就业机会；工作机会 Sea inlet 入海口 Mild climate 温和的气候

2. Hospitable a. 好客的 Traffic jams 交通堵塞 Heavy pollution 污染严重 High salary 高薪水 Facilities 公用设备（例如公共电话、座椅等） Living conditions 生活条件 Quality of life 生活质量；生活品质

3. Listening: My hometown is quite large.mp3My hometown is quite large.mp3 Listening: My hometown is beautiful.mp3My hometown is beautiful.mp3 Listening: What makes a good place.mp3What makes a good place.mp3 Say something about your hometown: - What kind of place is your hometown? - Are there interesting places to see and go? - What kind of surrounding landscape does it have? - What are major industries? - How is the weather like?

4. Listening: 08 Your Hometown.mp308 Your Hometown.mp3 Listening: 40 Your Hometown.mp340 Your Hometown.mp3 Listening: 06 The Weather.mp306 The Weather.mp3 Listening: 36 Weather and Climate.mp336 Weather and Climate.mp3 Which cities do you think are good? Or is one better than the other? In what terms? Beijing Shanghai Shenyang Xi ’ anShenzhen Chongqing Changsha Qingdao Wuhan HarbinNingbo Dalian (you name it … )

5. Examination Papers from University of Cambridge  PART 1 The examiner asks the candidate about him/herself, his/her home, work or studies and other familiar topics. EXAMPLE Your country - which part of your country do most people live in? - How easy is it to travel around your country? - Has your country changed since you were a child?

6.  PART 2 You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish. Describe an interesting historic place. You should say: - what it is - where it is located - What you can there now and explain why this place is interesting.

7. PART 3 Discussion topics: - How do people in your country feel about protecting historic buildings? - Do you think an area can benefit from having an interesting historic place locally? In what way? - What do you think will happen to historic places or buildings in the future? Why? Go through the article below, it may help you better answer the questions: Cities' New Efforts to Protect Historic Sites