1. Unit 1 Lesson 4
City and Country
肥西三中：卫志丽

2. City
Country
and

3. First-hand information
traffic jams
modern museums
buildings
city
First-hand information
pollution
stressful
fresh air
isolation
peaceful
environment
country
relaxing
free
inconvenient
traffic

4. Country What is the country life like and what about the city life?
easy, free, peaceful, relaxing, boring

5. City
busy, dangerous, exciting, interesting, stressful

6. Pre-Reading
Answer these questions to prepare yourself. Use the Key Words below to help you.
Key Words
office, farm, underground, walk,
crowded, space, quiet, noisy.

7. busy, crowded, noisy, underground , office
1.How are city and country lifestyles different in China? 2.Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?
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busy, crowded, noisy, underground , office
farm, walk, space, quiet

8. In today’s class, we are going to
read two texts about different lifestyles (city lifestyle and country lifestyle ).
learn to use reading strategies.
learn to use some
useful words

9. Reading strategy: prediction
Before you read a text, look at the title, photographs and drawings.
Read the first two or three lines of the text.
Try to guess what the text is going to be about

10. Guessing
Look at the title and photographs.
And guess what the two articles
are about.

11. Reading
Read and fill in the table with information about Debbie and Paul’s lives. Add information about your own life and compare.

12. a farmer Debbie Paul lives in a big city a small village wake-up time
job
working hours
works in
evening activities
special activities
you
7 am
4 am
a farmer
an accountant
8 hours
all day
north of England
center of London
play with his children; study chinese
by distance learning
dance classes, go to the gym, French classes
go to the cinema drive to the country and go walking there
go to London for a weekend break

13. Post Reading
Listen to the two texts and decide if the following sentences are True or False.

14. 1.Debbie has to get up very early but Paul doesn’t have to.
2.Debbie goes to work by car every day.
3.Paul has to travel far away to work every day.
4.Debbie is rather tired of the underground. F F F T
5. Paul often goes to see the film.
6. The life of Paul is very convenient. F F

15. T T T T F 7.Paul lives in a small village in the north of England.
8. It is easy for Paul to go to work.
9. Paul’s life is very free.
10. Paul’s life is busy but without the stress of life. T T T T
11. Debbie and Paul are both movie fans and both see movies a lot. F

16. Useful vocabulary tube 1. having too many people accountant
2. someone who is good at
dealing with numbers
nearby
crowded not far
4.space between two points or
places
5. tell sth. in advance(提前)
6. what people call the
underground in London
forecast
fanastic错误
之前应有一个图片展示
distance

17. Vocabulary Use the words from the texts to complete the sentence below.
accountant, tube, underground, crowded, nearby, otherwise, cigar, lung, forecast, distance learning
1 In England,the __________is often called the _____.Many people travel on this to work.
2 Smoking ______can cause ____cancer!
underground
tube
cigars
lung

18. 3 The _______says that the weather this weekend is going to be sunny and warm.
4 If you like maths you could be an ________,_________you could be a maths teacher.
5 There is a restaurant_______and it is always ________because it is so popular.
6 I am studying business communication by______________.
forecast
accountant
otherwise
nearby
crowded
distance learning

19. Homework:
Suppose you can choose to live in a city or a country, write a short passage about the advantages and disadvantages of living in
a city or a country.
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20. Thank you
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