Living in a town

Learning objectives:
Words related to town problems
Past simple (questions)

Describe the pictures.

Describe the pictures

Describe the pictures

Describe the pictures

Label the pictures with the expressions

from the box.

Overcrowding

Dirty streets

Label the pictures with the expressions

from the box.

Too many cars

Bad housing

Label the pictures with the expressions

from the box.

Lack of public
transportation

Spitting in the
street

Label the pictures with the expressions

from the box.

Water scarcity

Match the problems to the effects.

1. Dirty streets
2. Water scarcity
3. Spitting in the streets
4. Too many cars
5. Overcrowding
6. Bad housing
7. Lack of public
transportation

a. Pollution of the soil and

sidewalks
b. Constant hunger and thirst.
c. Transmission of diseases
d. Traffic jam
e. Limited public spaces and
buildings
f. Impact on childrens ability to
study at home
g. Travel with discomfort

Study the sentences.

What did you do during the last six
months?
Did you arrange public meetings?

Put the words in the correct order to

make questions.
1.People/in the project/did/How many/they/
involve?
2.Did / in gardens / trees / all people / plant?
3.citizens / Where / waste bins / place / did?
4.call/people / a waste collecting truck / Did?
5.How often / you / arrange/ mass cleanups/
last year/did?

1.How many people did they involve for

the project?
2.Did all people plant trees in gardens?
3.Where did citizens place waste bins?
4.Did people call a waste collecting
truck?
5.Did the government solve the problems
of smoking in public places?

In pairs, make up a short conversation

about the pictures.
Too many cars

City maintenance
companies

In pairs, make up a short conversation

about the pictures.

Soil pollution

Waste collecting
trucks

Example:

A: How many cars are there in UB?

B: There are too many cars.
A: What effect does it have?
B: If there are too many cars, there will
be a lot of traffic jams.

In pairs, do the survey and write sentences.

Problems

Dark streets
Traffic jams
Uncomfortable
public
transportation
Air pollution

Solutions
Member 1

Member 2

Installing lights Taking flashlight

with yourself
Broadening
Building roads for
roads
bike
Modernizing
Raising a number
buses
of bus
Building a lot of Using masks
apartment

Example:
Tuya offered to install lights in the
streets to solve a dark street
problem.

Homework:

To write about environmental

problems and solutions in your
city.