Стр.140-141 Across the curriculum ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 6 класс
Across the curriculum Where we live 1 Copy the diagram and label it with these words. village town city rural urban 2 Complete the text with these words.
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Across the curriculum
Where we live
1 Copy the diagram and label it with these words.
village
town
city
rural
urban
2 Complete the text with these words.
Commute
farm
services
shop
One in four people in the United Kingdom live in rural areas. Some people live in single houses, for example a (1) farm, and others live in villages where there are a few houses and small number of (2) services, for example a (3) shop and post office. Many villages near towns are growing because people can (4) commute to work. This means that they regularly travel a long way from their homes to get to work.
Urbanisation
3 Read the text and answer the questions.
Peopie all over the world are moving from rural homes to cities. Urbanisation is when the percentage of people living in cities goes up. This is happening very rapidly in the world today because many people are moving from rural areas to the cities. In 1800, only about 3% of the total world population lived in cities, but now almost half of the people in the world live in cities.
In 1900 only two cities had more than 1 million inhabitants (millionaire cities).Today there are more than 300 millionaire cities in the world.
Megacities have more than 10 million people living there. In 2015 experts think that the world will have 27 megacities.
1 What percentage of the world’s population today live in cities?
2 What is a millionaire city?
3 How many millionaire cities were there in 1900?
4 How many millionaire cities are there today?
5 What is a megacity?
4 Look at the information about the world’s urban population. 1 is the biggest. Say if the statements are true or false.
World’s ten biggest cities
1970 1990
World’s urban population
1950
730 million
1970
1,350 million
1990
2,380 million
North-South divide
1 In 1950 the world’s urban population was about 730 million people.
2 The world’s urban population is getting smaller.
3 In 1990 most of the world’s ten biggest cities were south of the North-South divide.
4 In 1970 the world’s biggest city was New York.
5 In 1990 the world’s biggest city was Mumbai in India.
6 In 1990 the world’s urban population was 1,350 million people.
Prefect
Find some facts about the population in your country and describe where you live.
Plan
Think about the place where you live. Do you live in a rural or urban home? Are there many services where you live? Choose the four biggest cities in your country. Prepare to make a graph to show the changes in population of the cities (use an appropriate scale).
Research
Find out about the population of the biggest cities in your country in 1950 and 2000.
Prepare
Put the information about the cities on the graph and write a short text to describe the place where you live and the biggest cities in your country.
Present your material
Put the information on a poster and compare with your classmates.