Podcasts – Themes – City vs. country Introduction Download the LearnEnglish Themes podcast. You’ll find more information on this page: http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-podcasts-themes.htm This support pack contains the following materials: • the article that you can listen to in the podcast • an optional language activity based on the article • links to other activities on the LearnEnglish website on this theme (city vs. country). Read the article Town or country mouse? by John Russell
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Austin Raulerson 10-06-2013 Mr.Leach Comparison between City Life and Country Life Everyone has a different lifestyle. People sometimes have to decide where they want to live. Some people prefer to live in the city while other people choose to live in the countryside. Their choice depends upon their background. City lifestyle and country lifestyle are two different types of living. Although‚ these two types of living differ from each other by environment‚ job opportunities and cost of living;
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City vs. Countryside Looking for a good place to settle is not easy like you finish your homework or your job. I lived in countryside until 12‚ and then my family moved to a big city. Thus‚ I have experienced the conflicting living in countryside and a big city. By comparing and contrasting my own experience living in countryside and one in a big city‚ I would prefer someday to live in a big city because of the modern life‚ high education‚ and good health care. First of all‚ living in a big city
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Mega City Living (Ground Transportation Technologies) Content Page Introduction Do you know that Tokyo is the largest mega cities in year 2011? Mega cities usually have a population size of more than 10 million which is equivalent to a population density of at least 2‚000 persons per square kilometer. A mega city can also be two metropolitan area linked together. As of 2011‚ there are 21 megacities which includes Tokyo‚ New York City‚ Mexico City and many more. Mega City starts off from
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leading superpower in the world. With more wealth‚ resources‚ and manpower than many of the other modern countries combined‚ China dominates the free market and commerce. The Chinese Yuan has become worth almost as much as the American dollar. In the major cities of China‚ life is streamlined and fast paced. However‚ life has remained mostly unchanged for the Chinese farmer living out in the country. Though new technology is available‚ not much of it has reached in the farmer’s small village. Though
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Disjunction of Senses in Modern City life In his chapter “City Life and the Senses‚” John Urry discusses how the senses system operates in “open societies” of streams of crowds in open space. The five senses are comprised by the visual‚ auditory‚ touch‚ taste‚ and olfactory. Urry views visuality as an ambivalent force that is prioritized above the other sense through the developments of centuries and somewhat abused by as visual sense becomes increasingly accelerated in the city life dominated by technology
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Country vs. City In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather‚ Antonia Shimerda and Lena Lingard share a few similarities: they are both immigrants to America; they are both in their own way very beautiful women; and they are both very independent and accomplished women. However‚ they differ in personal appearance‚ lifestyle‚ and values. Antonia was very beautiful as a young girl‚ but as the years have passed‚ the struggles she has faced growing up in her life show in her outward appearance. She
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he is ill. The dweller in the city can have all the congenial company he wants‚ and at small expense all kinds of social amusements. Such as theatres‚ cinemas‚ concerts and clubs. Further‚ he can get the best education at first rate schools and colleges; and to feed and stimulate his mind‚ there are libraries‚ museums‚ art galleries‚ public lectures and literary societies. The keen competition‚ too‚ of town life sharpens his wits and makes him mantally alert. Life in a town has also important moral
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Gentrification Introduction Beginning in the 1960s‚ middle and upper class populations began moving out of the suburbs and back into urban areas. At first‚ this revitalization of urban areas was "treated as a back to the city’ movement of suburbanites‚ but recent research has shown it to be a much more complicated phenomenon" (Schwirian 96). This phenomenon was coined "gentrification" by researcher Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the residential movement of middle-class people into low-income
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between city life and village life? Also‚ you may think the city life is most comfortable. You know‚ there are so many differences between them. That is to say‚ people living in cities are different from people living in the city. There are five major differences between city and village (people) lifestyle. I’m going to write social activities or opportunities‚ people’s behaviour‚ most common events‚ safety and getting good education. First of all; there is big advantage of city life than the
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