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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?

busy, dangerous,

exciting, interesting,

stressful

City

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: