Unit 8. Country life and city life

Created by: PHẠM LÊ MINH NHỰT
November/2008.
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UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
LESSON 3: READ
True or False prediction.
Nowadays farmers are moving to the cities to earn their living.

2.Farmers move to the cities because they hope to earn more money.
3. Farmers want to move to the cities because they are afraid of farming.

UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
LESSON 3: READ
4. When farmers move to the cities, they don’t have any difficulty.
5. It’s unpleasant for farmers to live apart from their family.

TRUE
TRUE
TRUE
FALSE
FALSE
Vocabulary
rural
urban
strain
typhoon
drought
struggle
migrant
increase

Dân di cư
Đấu tranh
Thuộc đô thị
Thuộc nông thôn
Nạn hạn hán
Trận b�o lớn
Sự quá tải
tăng
d 2. c 3. g 4. f
5. e 6. f 7. a 8. h
UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
LESSON 3: READ
1. Complete the summary. Use information from the passage.
People from the countryside are (1) ________their (2) ________ to go and live in the (3)_____. Farming can sometimes be a difficult life and these people from (4) ______areas feel the (5) ___offers more opportunities. However, many people coming to the city create(6) _______. There may not be enough(7) _______or(8) ________, while water and electricity supplies may not be adequate. This is a (9) ________facing governments around the(10) _________

leaving
home
city
rural
city
problem
school
hospital
problem
world
LESSON 3: READ
UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
2. Find the word in the passage that means:
of the countryside =
as many as needed =
become greater or larger =
a great pressure =
a terrible event =
of the city or city life =
rural
plentiful
increase
strain
tragedy
urban
UNIT 8:
LESSON 3: READ
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS .
Why do many people from the rural areas move
to the city?
2. Is life in the country so hard? Why?
3. Do the farmers often look for other work when
they need more money?

UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
LESSON 3: READ
4. What happens when too many people move to the city?
5. What happens to the migrants’ families?

Because they believe that well-paying jobs are plentiful in the city.
6.What are the governments trying to do?
Yes, it is. Because life is always a struggle with nature.
Yes, they do.
Increase in population put a strain on schools and hospitals, water and electricity supplies and increase in pollution.
They sometimes have to live apart .
They are trying to provide facilities for these migrants.
LESSON 3: READ
UNIT 8:
COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Write 5 things that the government should do for the rural areas.
Learn vocabulary.
Prepare lesson 5 : Write
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