ACADEMIC ENGLISH | WEEK'7 : CAUSES AND EFFECTS TASK I/ Match the causes on the left with their corresponding effects on the right. All the sentences are about different aspects of city life. CAUSES: EFFECTS 1. The huge number of people, population density and great social diversity of cities 2. People live physically close to one another but are socially distant 3. Cities offer diverse opportunities, create and strengthen various subcultures ~ college students, artists etc 4. Big city problems such as crime, homelessness, racial tension, heavy taxes, and high rents 5. The attractions of the city are many: the cosmopolitan atmosphere (foreign restaurants, different languages, international companies), the stimulation of cultural events or the simple hope of finding work 6. The absence of space between people, which reduces the cost of transporting goods, people, and ideas 7. City dwellers can walk to many destinations and it is often convenient for them to use public transportation 8._ Rising incomes and cheaper transportation e h. Cities are more productive. New Yorkers consider their city an urban hellhole. Urban sprawl Alienation, impersonal stress relations and Dense cities have the tendency to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions per person than do scattered, sprawling suburbs. Urban inhabitants are involved in a small circle of friends and relatives no matter | how big a city is. Urban environment people's lives. People flock to cities. actually enrich Task Il/ Use different Cause-Effect structures to write sentences about city life based on the Cause- Effects pairs found in Task 1. 1. Sentence Connectors (as a result, consequently, therefore, hence, because of this) 2. Conjunctions (so, for) 3. Clause Striictures (so... that, such ... that)ACADEMIC ENGLISH | WEEK 7 4. Phrase Structures (Because of Due to .., Asa result of.., In view of ..) 5. Predicate Structures ( .. cause, result in, « is the reason for, «. is responsible for , .. contribute to, Tead to) or (.» result from, ... is a result of, is due to, ... follow from) 6. Participial Phrases (..., causing/ ... leading to/... contributing to/ .., resulting in) ‘Task I/Brainstorm the Causes and Effects of the increasing number of skyscrapers in big cites, then write up sentences using Cause-Effect Structures in Task Il The Increasing number of Skyscrapers in Big Cities CAUSES EFFECTS