SO Unit 16 Future Accommodation - Online Class

SO Unit 16 Future Accommodation - Online Class

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What is a very tall building called?

Multiple Choice

Which one is a residential building?

Multiple Choice

What kind of house is this?

• attached house

• detached house

Multiple Choice

With overpopulation on the rise, which type of building would be more practical?

Horizontal or vertical building?

Multiple Select

What is the opposite of cosmopolitan?

• worldly

• local

• universal

• regional

• sophisticated

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Listen to the audio and type in what you hear

Vocabulary

• skyscraper / ˈskaɪˌskreɪ pər /

• detached house / dɪˈtætʃt  haʊs /

• vertical building  / ˈvɜr tɪ kəl /

• cosmopolitan / ˌkɒz məˈpɒl ɪ tn /

• stunning /ˈstʌn ɪŋ /

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In the city center, there are a lot of ...... instead of ...... .

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In a

city, people work and live in high buildings.

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Ho Chi Minh city is very

. You can meet people from all over the world

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The viewpoint by the side of the road gave us a

panorama of the whole valley.

Future Accommodation

Read the passage p109 and answer the following questions

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Fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text.

1. It is predicted that urban areas will be home to

of the world population.

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Fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text.

2. Since Burj Khalifa was built, the idea of

has drawn much interest of the public.

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Do the following statement agrees with the given information in the reading?

Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.

1. China possesses some of the highest buildings in the world.

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Do the following statement agrees with the given information in the reading?

Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.

2. Natural resources will be conserved because forest can be planted in skyscrapers.

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Do the following statement agrees with the given information in the reading?

Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.

3. It is believed that vertical cities can't help with the problem of food shortage.

Multiple Choice

4. Which is NOT the potential benefit of building vertical cities?

• A. Stop overpopulation

• B. Protect the environment

• C. Provide space for agriculture

• D. Control housing problem

Language to make prediction

• The United Nations predicts that by 2030,

  two thirds of the global population will live in cities.

• The United Nations predicts two thirds of the global population to live in cities by 2030.

• Two thirds of the global population are predicted to live in cities by 2030 by the United Nations.

• It is predicted (by the United Nations ) that two thirds of

  the global population will live in cities by 2030.

Language to make prediction

• Sb predict(s) that S will V.

• Sb predict(s) S to V.

• S is/are predicted to V.

• It is predicted that S will V.

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Rewrite this sentence:

Vertical cities are expected to hold the key to solving the complications of overpopulation.

Dicussion

What are the potential drawbacks if Hanoi is transformed into a vertical city?

What are the possible solution?