Unit 8. Country life and city life

I.WARM
UP
floods

lack of water
little
money

difficulties for a farmer’s life
hard
work

No
vacation

Lack of
electricity

Lack of
medical care


UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Period 48:

READ

UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Period 48:
READ
1. Vocabulary:
-rural (adj):
# urban (adj):
- typhoon (n):
- flood (n) :
- drought (n) :
- strain (n):

thuộc nông thôn
thuộc đô thị , thành phố
trận bão lớn
trận lụt
nạn hạn hán
sự quá tải (về dân số)


T/F statements prediction
1.Many people from rural areas are leaving
T
behind
their traditional way of life
notand moving to the F
city.
2. At home on the farm, life is
always struggle

T
with nature.
3. They believe
neverthat well-paying jobs are plentifulF
in the city.
sometimes have to live apart.
4. Families
T
5. Children may live at home with relatives, while
their parents go and live in an urban area.



Move to live in the
city


Country life:
- Droughts
- Bad weather
- hard work
- no vacation
- insects destroy

City life
- good job
- get more money
- Better facilities
- Kinds of goods

Complete the summary.
Use information from the
passage
.
People from the countryside are (1) ________their

leavin
(2)
________ to go and live in
the (3)_____.
home
gcit
Farming can sometimes be a difficult
life and
y
these people
feel the (5)
city
rura from (4) ______areas
___offers lmore opportunities. However, many
people coming proble
to the city create(6) _______.
There may
not
hospita _______or(8)
m be enough(7)
schoo
________, while
water and

l electricity supplies
l
may proble
not
be
adequate.
This
is
a(9)
________facing
governments around the(10)
world
m
_________


2. Find the word in the passage
that means:
rural
a. of the country side
=
plentiful
b. as many as needed
=
c. become greater or large increase
=
d. a great pressure
= strain
tragedy
e. a terrible event

=
f. of the city or city life = urban


* If you were a Minister, what would
you do for farmers?

Build streets, theaters, stadium in the
country
Build schools,
hospitals
Build
factories
Provide clean water, electricity,
facilities


Consolidation

Population increase

overcrowded

Strains on social services



Home work
• Write 5 things that the

government should do for the
rural areas
• Learn by heart vocabulary
• Do exercise 4 in workbook page
51
• Prepare lesson revision


Thank you for your
attendance and goodbye!