1、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 CitiesCountrysideDistantRemote The vast countrysideThe big cityTall buildingsEndlessfields Crowded
2、 streetRemote villageExcitingNoisyConveniententertainmentShoppingSupermarket and shopping mallShopping is easily done.LonelyCrowdedDistantClose to each otherPolluted airFresh airDirty and dustyClean and freshPolluted waterClearwaterStressed and nervousFree and relaxed Read the passage and find detai
3、ls for each of the main ideas.Main idea DetailsI hate the tube.Tiring dayBusy eveningRelaxing weekendTask 1Task 1 Read the passage and find details for each of the main ideas.Main idea DetailsIts 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.Compa
4、re the lifestyle of Debbie with that of Paul and say which you prefer.NameActivityDebbiePaulYour opinionIn the morningIn the daytimeIn the eveningAt weedendTask 2Country life,is walking through a field of hay,as dusk paints orange and purple hues on the sky above.Country life In the eye of common pe
5、ople The birds twitter and brood,streams babble and flow,horses graze and gallop,cropsare sown and harvested without cease.Life in the country is much more excitingthan many city-dwellers would like to believe.In particular:it does you good.No wise man will go to live in the country,unless hehas som
6、ething to do which can be better done in the country.For instance,if heis to shut himself up for a year to study science,it is better to look out to.Others thinks,CityLifeisGreaterManchestersweeklylistingsandlifestylemagazine,coveringareassuchasclubbing,cinema,comedy,gay,food&drink,shopping,music,th
7、eatre,art,books,sportandtravelCitylife:agrowingproblem.WhatwaslifelikeinsidetheCitywalls?InsidethecrowdedCitywalls,finehousesbelongingtomerchantsoftenstoodnexttosqualidhousesbelonging.Cities are the great havens for knowledge,culture,and social life.cultures are found in cities because it takes a la
8、rge population to support museums,concert halls,sports teams,and night-life districts.Group work Compare cities with countryside,and fill the information into the form.LifestylePlace 1 2 3 4 5CityCountryTask 2PlaceAdvantagesDisadvantagesFactsCausesFactscausesCityCountryClassroom discussion;Compare t
9、he city and country by reasoning and say where would you like to live.Task 3WritingCities and CountrysideSome 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 cou
10、ntry,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 gameTask 4But others prefer to live in the countryside.They say cities are
11、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?
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