Lesson1_Unit 3_R&W_Academic English B2

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: (n) a part or side of something

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: (v) to cover a huge area

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: (n) money that a person earns

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: (adj) able to achieve a significant amount or result

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: (v) to usually do something or be a certain way

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aspect

spread out

income

productive

tend to

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(n) a huge amount or number of something in one place

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(n) areas outside of a large city that have homes and businesses

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: (adj) having a large amount of something close together

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: (adj) relating to a city

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: (n) the process of increasing

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growth

urban

dense

suburbs

concentration

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ANSWER IN LESS THAN 1 MINUTE

Would you rather live in a dense city center, a suburb, or a rural area? Why?

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ANSWER IN LESS THAN 2 MINUTES

What aspects of urban life appeal to you? Which aspects don’t you like?

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WRITE IN PARAGRAPH FORMAT, WITH TOPIC SENTENCE AND SUPPORTING IDEAS:

Do you think that city life is mainly beneficial? Why or why not?

You can start from: “Overall, I think urbanization has a positive/negative impact on human societies because….”

Reading passage:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ncr2pQXRPqOAjNVfv3P3rVXS_0MIhY0/view?usp=sharing 

Reading questions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ufy5AO6sKhSaHqptsPBN7Xr-wqWzrZs-ycSpuFT31BQ/edit?usp=sharing

Now you read

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try to answer these questions in your own words (less than 1 minute):

According to Edward Glaeser, what are two benefits of living in cities? (paragraph C)

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try to answer these questions in your own words (less than 1 minute):

According to Stewart Brand, what is one benefit of dense cities? What is one example he gives? (paragraph D)

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try to answer these questions in your own words (less than 1 minute):

According to David Satterthwaite, what is the main challenge related to urbanization? (paragraph E)

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try to answer these questions in your own words (less than 1 minute):

How is urban sprawl different from city density? Which one would be more environmentally friendly?

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Do you think that city life is mainly beneficial? Why or why not?

(write in paragraph format)

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1 new vocabulary that we have learned

(Speak out loud the term and the definition of that term)

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1 thing you would remember after reading the passage

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1 difficulty for you during the Reading and Writing lesson