Unit 8. Country life and city life

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Where do you live?
Is Van Phuong a country?
Do you like to live in the country?
Is it peaceful?
Is it beautiful?
Is the air fresh?
I don’t know why do many people want to move to the city?
Unit 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Period 46- Lesson 3: READ
Rural area(adj):
What is this?
What is this?
Urban(adj):
What is this?
Drought(n):
What is this?
Typhoon (n):

Many people from rural areas are leaving behind their traditional way of life and moving to the city .They believe that well–paying jobs are plentiful in the city .
At home on the farm, life is always a struggle with nature Typhoons, floods or droughts can easily destroy a harvest and leave the farmer with little or no money until the following year. Often farmers look for other work when they need more money for their family .
The increase in population ,however,has led to overcrowding in many cities .This puts a strain on schools and hospitals, as well as water and electricity supplies .Increased pollution is another unpleasant result
There is also a human side to this tragedy.Families sometimes have to live apart . In these cases,children may live at home with relatives, while their parents go and live in an urban area.
Governments all over the world are trying to provide facilities for these migrants, but it can be quite a problem.
well–paying jobs
strain
schools
hospitals
and
on
live
apart
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)………..
1. leaving
2. home
3. city
4. rural
5. city
6. problems
7. schools
8. hospitals
9. problem
10. world
Keys:
Exercise: True(T) or False(F)? Check the boxes.
1. Nowadays farmers are moving to the cities to earn their living.
2. Farmers want to move to the cities because they are afaid of farming.
3. Farmers want to move to the cities they don’t have any difficulty.
4. It’s unpleasant for farmers to live apart from their family.
True
False

a). of the countryside ………………….....

b). as many as needed ……………………..

c). become greater or larger …………………….

d). a great pressure ……………………..

e). a terrible event ……………………...

f). of the city or city life ………………………

The answer:
 rural
 plentiful
 increase
 strain
 tragedy
 urban
2. Find the word in the passage that means:
1. Why do the farmer want to move to the city?
Read the passage again then answer the questions:
2. What can easily destroy their harvest?
3. What problem may arise when so many people move to the city?
Get little money
Vocation hard
No drought work
Typhoon
Difficulties of farmers life
Cities’ problem when they move to the cities
Lack of water
Strain on schools/ Hospital
Lack of electricity
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