Cities and countryside

1. In your city, what do you usually do at the weekend?

2. When you were last in the countryside, who did you go with? Why?

3. In the town or city you live in now, what are your favourite pastimes?

Describe a city where you have lived in the past.

You should say:

• where the city was

• why you were living there

• how long you lived there for

and explain what you liked and disliked about living there.

1. Do you think that within the next 100 years we will be trying to build new cities on other planets?

2. What would happen if the government put limits on how many people were allowed to live in big
cities?

3. Today, many young people move away from smaller towns to big cities. What effect does this have on
these small towns?