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Unit 1 Lesson 4 Unit 1 Lesson 4
City and CountryCity and Country
肥西三中：卫志丽
CityCity CountryCountryCityCity CountryCountry
city
traffic jams
stressfulpollution
fresh air
buildingsmodern museums
First-hand information
isolation
country
inconvenient traffic
peaceful environment
relaxing free
easy, free, peaceful, relaxing, boring
Country
What is the country life like and what about the city life?
Pre-ReadingPre-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.
1.How are city and country lifestyles different in China?2.Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?
busy, crowded, noisy, underground , office
farm, walk, space, quiet
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
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
Guessing Guessing
Look at the title and photographs. And guess what the two articles are about.
Reading
Read and fill in the table with
information about Debbie and
Paul’s lives. Add information about
your own life and compare.
Debbie Paul
lives in a big city a small village
wake-up time
job
working hours
works in
evening activities
special activities
4 am
go to the cinema drive to the country and go walking there
dance classes, go to the gym, French classes
center of London
go to London for a weekend break
all day8 hours
an accountant
north of England
a farmer
play with his children; study chinese by distance learning
youyou
7 am
•Listen to the two texts and decide if the following sentences are True or False.
Post Reading
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.5. Paul often goes to see the film.
6. The life of Paul is very convenient.
FF
F
TF
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.11. Debbie and Paul are both movie fans and both see movies a lot.
TT
T
T
F
Useful vocabularytube 1. having too many people
accountant 2. someone who is good at dealing with numbersnearby
crowded 3. 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
distance
VocabularyUse the words from the texts to complete the sentence below.
• 1 In England,the __________is often called the _____.Many people travel on this to work.
• 2 Smoking ______can cause ____cancer!
undergroundtub
e
lung
cigars
accountant, tube, underground, crowded, nearby, otherwise, cigar, lung, forecast, distance learning
• 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
nearbycrowde
d
distance learning
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.
Homework:Homework:
