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Module 9
Unit2 Arnwick was a city with 200，000 people.
Learning objectives
1. To read and understand the main idea.
2. To understand and explain the information provide by a population graph.
What are the problems of your city
Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
Use the words in the box to help you.
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countryside field flat hospital
job office rubbish village
1 Why do people move to cities
2 What are the problems of big cities
Read the passage and check your answers to
Activity 1.
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1 Why do people move to cities
Because they want to find jobs and they needed places to live.
2 What are the problems of big cities
There is a lot of traffic and pollution. It needs more schools, buses and hospitals. It needs fresh air, clean water and better public services. It also needs more police to protect its people.
Check(√)the true sentences.
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1 Parkville was a quiet village.
2 Arnwick was a city with 20, 000 people.
3 Arnwick now has a population of more than one million.
4 The local school in Parkville has 2, 000 pupils.
5 Big cities need more money for public services.
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√
√
Work in pairs.
How do you think the problems can be solved
traffic jam
too much rubbish
air pollution
[观察1] The small local school in Parkville closed down five years ago, so Jo now has to go to a school in Arnwick with 2，000 pupils.
帕克维尔当地的小学校在五年前关闭了，所以乔现在得去阿恩威克的一个有2000名学生的学校上学。
[探究] close down 意为“(永久) 关闭，关停；倒闭；破产”等。
The factory can't make money and will soon close down.
这家工厂赚不到钱了，很快就要倒闭。
[拓展] close down 还表示“停止播音”。
It is midnight and we are now closing down.
时间已到午夜，本台现在停止广播。
活学活用
[2019·武汉改编]I've had to ________ my business now and I don't know what I'm going to do for money.
A．close down B．pick up
C．turn down D．set up
A
[观察2] There is a lot of traffic and pollution in the city.
城市里有许多车辆和污染。
[探究] pollution是_____________(可数名词/不可数名词)。
Pollution is one of the most important problems in China.
污染是中国最重要的问题之一。
不可数名词
[拓展] pollution的动词形式为________；其形容词形式为polluted。
pollute
活学活用
[2019·扬州]In the past, many rivers were ________(污染) seriously, but now they are cleaned up.
polluted
[观察3] It is clear that Arnwick needs more schools, buses and hospitals. 很明显，阿恩威克需要更多的学校、公交车和医院。
[探究] “It is clear that…”意为“很明显/显然……”。在“It＋be＋形容词＋that从句”这一结构中，it是形式主语，真正的主语是that引导的从句。
It is clear that he made many mistakes in the exam.
显然这次考试他犯了很多错误。
活学活用
很明显，COVID 19是人传人的。
________ ________ ________ COVID 19 can spread from human to human.
It's clear that
Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.
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flat local pollution rubbish service thousand
Many towns and cities have the same problems as Arnwick. People need places to live, so the (1)_____government has to build more (2)____. People need better bus and train (3)_______. They also produce more (4)________, so the government has to make more efforts to protect the city against (5)________. As we say, a hundred people make a (6)________ problems!
flats
services
local
rubbish
pollution
thousand
Summary
Our
town
Parkville in the past
Arnwick in the past
A city with 3. people. Then people needed more places to live. The government built flats 4. the city centre.
A 1. village.
People moved to Arnwick to 2. .
A city with over one million people. Problems: Rubbish, 5. and traffic. Needs more schools, buses, hospitals, fresh air, clean water and better 6. .
Arnwick now
quiet
find jobs
200, 000
outside
pollution
public services
GOOD JOB
