Unit8 - E10cb - listening

- It used to have only small houses, but now there are tall buildings - There weren’t any hotels, but now there is a big hotel in the town - The roads used to be narrow, but now they ar

Each group will look at the pictures and find out what the pictures talk

by collecting the first letters of each name from the pictures.

1

Vases

V 2 I

Ice-cream

3 L

Lanterns

4 L

Lotus

5 A

Apple

6

Glass

G E 7

Elephant

Congratulation !

Unit 8:

Lesson 3: listening

I Before you listen –

Look at the pictures and discuss the difference between them

- It used to have only small houses, but now there are tall buildings

- There weren’t any hotels, but now there is a big hotel in the town

- The roads used to be narrow, but now they are wide / large.

- There weren’t a car park, but now there is a car park in the town

- There were some cattles on the

grass land but now it doesn’t have grass land

1 Popffero is on the west coast

of England

2 Popffero used to be a tourist

resort

3 The town no longer has its old

atmosphere

4 There are more green trees in the

town now than there used to be

5 Everybody in the town likes

its change

Task 1: Decide if the whether statements are true ( T) or false (F) according to the talk.

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T F

=>south coast

=> used to be a quiet town

(they completely destroyed its old atmosphere)

=> A lot of trees have been cut down

Task 2: Listen to the talk

again, and write in the

missing words.

The small old (1) have been pulled down,

and tall buildings have been put there instead They’ve

also built a big (2) in the middle of the town

The narrow streets have been (3) and

resurfaced, so the big trees on the two sides of the

streets have been (4) down The large areas of grass land in thr surburbs of the town has been turned

into an ugly (5) _ park Even the old corner (6)

isn’t there any more It has been replaced by

a big (7) _store And there is an (8)

restaurant where there used to be an old tea shop

houses

hotel widened

cut

car shop

departement expensive

Complete the following chart

Changes in

a small quiet town 1

2……… tall buildings

3……… wide streets

a large area of grass land 4………

5……… a big department store

an old tea shop 6………

a busy tourist resort

narrow streets

an ugly car park

an old corner shop

an expensive restaurant small old houses

Tell about the changes in Eknop ( Eka)

Use the structures:

In the past, Eknop used to have

there used to be

there was / were ( not )

But now, it has

there is / are

- Write about the changes in your hometown (within 10 sentences)

- Prepare for the next lesson