Module 5

Homelessness

Shanty towns Neighbourhood

Have you ever seen someone sleeping in a shop doorway, in a train
station or on a park bench? Why do you think these people don’t have a
home?

To have money To lose homes To run away from home

To pay the rent A natural disaster

Read the title of the text and the introduction. What do you think
Jasmine’s life is like? Discuss in pairs. Listen and check.

Life on the streets

It must be
awful to live like
that.
She must feel cold and
uncomfortable. It also
embarrassing to have to
ask passers-by for money.

She must be
feeling really
depressed.
Before reading learn new words.

abandoned
заброшенный to beg
умолять to toss
бросать
рассказывать о
addict
приверженец to date
берущий from от
начало to open up
своих чувтвах
to choke нанимать на
задыхаться to take sb on cosmopolitan
всемирный
работу
номер с завтраком беспл. столовая
B&B barely
едва soup kitchen
(bed&breakfast) д/бедных
сводить концы с вышедший из
to make ends meet scarce
скудный disused
концами употребления
придерживаться
posh
роскошный to stick to warehouse
склад
чего-либо
быстрорастущий
boom town squat
приют odd
случайный
город
хорошоwell-lit
освещенный toвырываться
break out of vicious circle
порочный круг
reluctant
вынужденный run-down
обветшалый cramped
тесный
Read the title of the text and the introduction. What do you think
Jasmine’s life is like? Discuss in pairs. Listen and check.

Life on the streets Text 1

Text 2
Text 3
Read the text and choose the correct answer to answer the questions.

Text 1 Text 2 Text 3

 Match the words to their definitions.
foster cramped drug addict

shivering with cold choke filthy

toss
make ends meet
couches
vicious circle
posh A problem or difficult situation
odd night that
Feeling
Long
A creates
Official
soft
so
person’s
HavingTo
People seats
cold
barely
not
who new
care
sense
enough
are problems
that
for
arranged
of
cover two
space
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or by
three
your
for the
onthe
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you Very
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feel about
ability night
to yourself
breathe
cause the
government
essential original
person people
andor
livingto problem
another
shake family
value
expenses
occupants
drug again
only
dignity
self-esteem
Industrial, capital, boom, cosmopolitan, overcrowded, historic, market,
shanty, new.
industrial
historic
boom

new

capital

cosmopolitan
overcrowded
market

shanty
Make similar sentences for towns/cities in your country.

St. Petersburg is a historic city with

Industrial, capital,
lots of interesting monuments.
cosmopolitan, overcrowded,
Moscow is the capital city historic, market, boom,
of Russia. shanty, new.

Vladivostok is an industrial
city with a large port.

Moscow has become very cosmopolitan with

lots of new immigrants.
Check these phrases in the Word List. Use the phrases to complete
well-bit
the sentences. residential
run-down
приют,squat
ночлежка
pedestrianised
office
офис
fully-furnished
вышедший disused
из употребления
posh полностью обставленный
rough fully-furnished
мебелью
abandoned
пришедшийrun-down
в негодность
хорошоwell-lit
освещенный
disused роскошный
posh
опасный
rough
squat
residential
жилой
закрытый для автомобильного
pedestrianised
office движения
заброшенный
abandoned
Which adjectives best describe Jasmine’s feelings? Give reasons.
Life on the streets is
IShe
think Jasmine
I probably feels lonely
think
difficult andfeels
she also anxious
feels
dangerous.
because she
as abandoned
well, has
notshe no family
knowing
because no or
what’s
Maybe also feels
friends
going one to help
to happen
helps her.
to
her. her.
confused too.

proud lonely abandoned confused

excited anxious delighted

Work in pairs.
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people I
the
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wish it
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had
of the journalist and Jasmine. Conduct
to
stayed
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hope and pray
coldRecord
and that one
lonely. day
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there’s
your interview.
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at school why
and I it.
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stayed a home
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also a council
years
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since
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eighteen. own but
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sixteen. to
of call home.
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then I would be independent. Little did
have ame!job or would
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knowgone
hardtoitcollege.
would be.
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is the
regretyou
worst been
your
thing
Why
Is there
do you
anylive
wayhere?
out?
living being
about on thehomeless?
street?
actions?
Do you agree with the statement below? Why?/Why not?
Match the words. Then, use the phrases to complete the sentences
below.

c
f
a
b
d
e

Workbook
Do you agree with the statement below? Why?/Why not?
Fill in: make ends meet, boom, squat, office, pedestrianized, self-
esteem, cramped, market.
Complete the sentences with the adjectives from the list.