Unit One City and Country What is the city life like? And what about the country life? Which do you prefer? Different people have different choice. Speak out your opinion so that we can share it.

Big Modern Cities

Countryside Distant Remote

The big city                                                                                                                          The vast countryside

Tall buildings Endless fields

Crowded street                                                       Remote village

Exciting Noisy

entertainment Shopping Convenient

Supermarket and shopping mall Shopping is easily done.

Lonely Distant Crowded Close to each other

Polluted air Fresh air

Dirty and dusty Clean and fresh

Polluted water Clear water

Stressed and nervous Free and relaxed

Task 1 Read the passage and find details for each of the main ideas. I hate the tube. Tiring day Busy evening Relaxing weekend

Read the passage and find details for each of the main ideas. It’s easy for my to get to work. I am free to do my work. I enjoy the evening . I dream of life in the city.

Task 2 Compare the lifestyle of Debbie with that of Paul and say which you prefer. Name Activity Debbie Paul Your opinion In the morning In the daytime In the evening At weedend

Country life In the eye of common people Country life, is walking through a field of hay, as dusk paints orange and purple hues on the sky above.

The birds twitter and brood, streams babble and flow, horses graze and gallop, crops are sown and harvested without cease. Life in the country is much more exciting than many city-dwellers would like to believe. In particular: it does you good ...

Others thinks, "No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to ...

City Life is Greater Manchester's weekly listings and lifestyle magazine, covering areas such as clubbing, cinema, comedy, gay, food & drink, shopping, music, theatre, art, books, sport and travel

City life: a growing problem. What was life like inside the City walls? Inside the crowded City walls, fine houses belonging to merchants often stood next to squalid houses belonging ...

Cities are the great havens for knowledge, culture, and social life. cultures are found in cities because it takes a large population to support museums, concert halls, sports teams, and night-life districts.

Task 2 Group work Compare cities with countryside, and fill the information into the form. Lifestyle Place 1 2 3 4 5 City Country

Task 3 Classroom discussion; Compare the city and country by reasoning and say where would you like to live. Place Advantages Disadvantages Facts Causes causes City Country

Cities and Countryside Task 4 Writing Cities and Countryside Some people like to live in big cities. They say city life is colorful , convenient and exciting. There are shopping malls or supermarkets everywhere, so you can buy anything you like, while in the country, shops are very far away from your house. It is difficult to do shopping. In cities, people enjoy themselves in many ways in their spare time, going to the cinemas or theatres, taking a walk in the park, or watching a footfall game…

But others prefer to live in the countryside But others prefer to live in the countryside. They say cities are crowded with people and cars. It is noisy.While people are suffering from all kinds of noise, you can enjoy yourself by sitting on the hillside watching the cattle around you. And now cities are becoming dirtier and dirtier. Factories and cars send out poisonous gases, which pollute the air and sky over cities is often gray. Water pollution and white pollution are also big problems in cities. On the contrary, the sky is blue and water is clear in the country. Different people have different choice. Where would you like to live, in cities or in the country?