Unit Three: Four Walls

Vocabulary

• Cable-stayed
• Consortium
• Converge
• Dangle
• Lousy
• Pact
• Setback
• Soar
• Strait
• Unleash
• jab

• 1.Why are good transportation links important in big cities ? Discuss
• 2. How do you rate the transportation links in your own city ? How could they be improved ?

Role play : a debate about local communications

• Imagine you live in a city built around the base of a hill. At the moment people have to drive around the hill to get from the north side , where most of the residential areas are , to the south side , where most of the commercial and industrial activity is .The local population want to connect the two sides more easily look at the options and think about the benefits and drawbacks of each
• A three –mile tunnel through the hill
• A new six –lane highway ring road running through the city and around the hill
• A new high-speed rail line around the hill
• Something else
• Debate which you think the best solution n