Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
Visions of the countryside
Visions of the city
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
Which of the visions impress you
                                   (让你印象最深)?
Try to compare one vision of the city
and the countryside.
rubbish
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
crime
police
law
It’s difficult            to run a big city.
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
/ easy
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
Where do you live?
in a house
in a flat
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
the countryside
the center of a city
a suburb of a city
Where do
you live?
________ became                 of _________
Reading: Visions of the city
Parkville
Arnwick
Jo
a suburb
Skim 跳读
Scan (略读) to catch the main idea of the passage:
P91-1. The writer wants to _______
a. show the disadvantages of how cities
   have grown over the years
b. show that life in the city can be
   enjoyable
c. describe the dangers of city life
d. explain what cities need to give the
   people who live there
a
the changes in the past and now
Read Para 1-4 carefully and find
a quiet country
village
over 1,000,000 people
a new flat around
the edge of Arnwick
a small local
school
 blocks of flats
P91-2. Parkville became a suburb of Arnwick because ______.
 no one wanted to live in a village
 people wanted better place to live
 Arnwick grew larger
 people feel safer in large cities
C
Read Para 2 again and think
P91-3. “But it’s not her fault” means Jo____.

 doesn’t want to add to the traffic and pollution
 is unhappy about adding to the problems
 doesn’t choose to go to a school so far away
 feels bad about the traffic and pollution

Read Para 3&4 again and think
C
add to the traffic
and pollution
What are the problems of Arnwick?
Read Para 5 carefully and find
larger hospitals
doctors
public transport
shops and offices
clean water
private cars
rubbish
crime
It’s difficult to ___a big city.
laws
police
taxes
There need to be
           more/ less…
It also needs
           more/ less …
run
 more
The writer has written a story probably because ______.
 he’s not interested in facts
 it’s more interesting
 it’s too dangerous to talk about a real city
 it’s clearer than if he describes a real city
d
Read Para 6 and think
Discuss in four:
What problems does Haining City have?
What is the cause(起因)?
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.
farmers go …to find jobs … have better life
more people …
1.Write a passage named “Problems of my city”.

2. Read the passage perfectly after the tape.
Homework:
Module 11 Population
Unit 2 It was a quiet country village.