ih Nw Ee 1.1 BIG CITIES: CITY FACTS 1m a city person ~1g0.0n holiday and I'm bored.’ Danny Boyle, 1956-, British ilm directo VOCABULARY - CITIES, ADJECTIVES (1 rr Using existing knowledge Match the cities in the box Jakarta, Indonesia Pecos With the photos (A-D). (There are four extra cities.) 1. Iesinthe west of Indonesia Istanbul Jakarta Lagos London Mexico City ae New York Shanghai Tokyo Eons 2 sabgcty Match the adjectives (1-8) with their opposites 4 isnta quiet city. Infact fs very noisy {a-hy, then choose two or three words for each city 57 Weve capi of ndonesi in the photos. eae a he 6 Theweathers hota year. is wet rom old b dry mM 3 big quiet 1 mous fr food. 4 cold new 5 wet expensive 8 Terexmuen 6 noisy fugly 9 Theboats inthe 7 beautiful g. bad They're beautiful, 00 8 “cheap h small 10. The buses aren't expensive. Istanbul - big, READING Read the text and choose the correct answer. ‘Are these sentences about Jakarta true or false? Ws in Indonesia. rue It's in the west of the country The weather is dry in December. Itisn’t the capital of Indonesia. The restaurants are bad. The boats in the old port aren't beautiful. Jakarta is 1 big and noisy 2. small and quiet 3. cold and expensive eeeBIG CITIES: CITY FACTS 8a c Listen to two conversations and choose the correct endings for these sentences. 1 The conversations are between a two students. b two teachers. ¢ a teacher and a student, 2 The situation is 2 on the phone. b in a schooluniversty ¢ ina café we (+) negative (.) question (2) SERENE . 8b Listen again and complete these phrases. Raa arok: ae Mexico Cy ‘anbal Espa the ipo) se 1 big, noisy, old 4 big, noisy BE Gistartcieienod int} UA, ae Gis) it? __tisnon iste 3 ee 6 inner Bou ae) you arent ou are not) ae yout sre) wearent we are ot) are wet they they * (they are are they? 9a Look at Audio script 1.1 on page 148. Practise the ma conversations wits parer, 9b Work with a partner to make similar conversations between a teacher and a student. the correct word. on is / are the capital of the UK. He's an old city ul aren’t / isn’t the capital of Turkey. Eng and Shanghai am / are in China. York and Tokyo aren’t / isn’t hot in December. a te one or two sentences about your city or town. ce the short answers, don cold?” ‘Yes, itis.” at the questions and choose the best answer. your city beautiful? BE itis. /No, it isn't Bee you a student? Bes Jam. / No, I'm not. {Ree the restaurants in your city bad? WS they are. / No, they aren't & your teacher from the UK? Wes he/she is. / No, he/she isn’t Fe the words inthe right order to make questions. ee ask and answer the questions with a partner, {Good in your city / cof expensive in your city / the buses / Are /? BS in Europe / New York /? big / Tokyo / city /1s/? Be / you / in your city / happy /?VOCABULAI PLACES IN A CITY a Match the words in the box with the corresponding. photo(s) on pages 8 and 9. You will not need all the words, a beach a church an airport abridge a canal acinema aconcert hall fountain a harbour mountain amuseum apark a temple 1b Make a list of more buildings and places in a city. ‘Compare your list with a partner's. Rio de Janeiro, city of ! and city of * Rioisin the south-east of Brazil The populations over six million. In busy Rico, there are mountains and lovely beaches. Copacabana Beach is famous for beach football. There area lot of bars and concert halls with samba and bossa-nova music. There's a famous carnival every year. Rio isa fun city! Mumbai isin the west of India. e's a big city with over ten million people. I's a y with a lot of entertainment. There isn'ta carnival, but the city is famous for music and films. In Los Angeles, there's Hollywood: in Mumbai there's Bollywood. in Mumbai, there are alot of cinemas - over 200! I's an exciting ety READING 2 Understanding main points Read the article about famous cities from an in-flight magazine below. Put these words in the correct gaps. music beaches films water 3. Read the article again and choose the best answer (a, b or c). 1 Copacabana is a famous _heac a park b cinema beach 2 Rioisa good place for a films b music —¢ museums 3° Mumbai is a city a small B busy € quiet 4 Bollywood films are from a Los Angeles b Mumbai Venice 5. Venice isa city a big b noisy € small 6 Venice isn't a good place for a cars b people — € boats Venice, city of + Venice is in the north-east of Italy. It isn’t a big city - the population is under 500,000. In Venice, there aren't any buses or cars. There are 150 canals and a lot of boats. It'sa beautiful city.GRAMMAR THERE IS, THERE ARE 4 Complete the sentences from the article, 1 InRio, there is_a famous carnival. 2 InMumbai, a lot of cinemas, 3 In Mumbai, a carnival. 4 InVenice, buses or cars. 4b There is (There’s)/There are introduces a place or thing. It tells us what i ina city, building, room or place. Look at sentences 3 and 4 in Exercise 4a, When do we use any in a negative sentence? 5 Complete the table below with the correct words in the box. fs is are are any not isn't singular plural + There's a cinema, There? 200 cinemas. (There ' _is_a.cinema.) — There isn’t a theatre. There aren't * theatres. There is? theatre.) (There are not any theatres.) Bp there a park? Are there any canals? Yes, there is. Yes, there © No, there ” No, there aren't. % Language reference and extra practice, pages 102-103 6 Choose the correct form of to be. 1. In London, there is / are an opera house. 2. There is/are two international airports in New York, 3. In Brighton, there isn’t/ aren’t any canals. 4 There isn’t a/isn’t any harbour in Mexico City. 5 _15/ Are there any temples in Paris? 6 Ave there any museums in Nairobi? Yes, there are /is a lot of = large number of Si Atirbial, thease are 2 lot of chen PLACES IN A CITY SPEAKING 7 Work with a partner to find out about different cities. Student A: Look at the table on page 131 and ask questions. Student B: Look atthe table on page 132 and ask questions. LISTENING 8a MEM J Love My Cityis a TV programme. Listen to the programme and match the people with the cities. 1 Yokako a Cape Town 2 Pabloe Sb Lima 3 € Kyoto 7 d_ Chicago Bb Listen again. Tick (7) the correct sentences. 1 Kyoto a There are a lot of new buildings. There are a lot of old buildings. 2 Lima a There are a lot of cafés. b There are a lot of cars and buses. 3 Chicago a There are a lot of museums b There are a lot of temples, 4 Cape Town a There's a beautiful fountain, b There's a beautiful mountain PRONUNCIATION 9a MEM Contractions Listen and tick (V) the sentence you hear. 1a I'm from Chicago. / b lam from Chicago. a They are very quiet b They're very quiet. ‘a There's a beautiful mountain. b There is a beautiful mountain. 9b Listen again and repeat. WRITING 10 Write about your My city is in the north/south-east of The population of my city is .. . My city is famous for ... In my city, there are f] O MEET THE EXPE Watch an interview with Adam Gadsby, an international publisher, about megacities. Tum to page 126 for video activities. or town.