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Focus 4 (b2+) living spaces. Vocabulary

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FOCUS 4 (B2+)
LIVING SPACES
3.1 VOCABULARY

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GOALS
Learn 7 cool adjectives to describe you
dream city
Talk about big city problems and
ways of solving them

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What countries/cities would you like to live in in the future?

Which townscape and landscape features should be present there?
Shouldn’t?
a breathtaking view
a bridge
a canal
a fast- owing river
a historic monument
a housing estate
a shabby house
a market square/an open-air market
a shopping centre
a waterfront restaurant
an underground car park
slums

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SHABBY
/ˈʃæbi/
adjective
shabby clothes, places, or objects are untidy and in bad condition
because they have been used for a long time
She wore shabby black clothes, with holes in the elbows of her
jacket.
SHABBILY ADV
SHABBINESS NOUN[UNC]

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SHABBY

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Splendid
Mistakes
Progress

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What adjs can be used to describe the centre of your
city?

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PICTURESQUE
/ˌpɪktʃəˈresk/
Adjective
Pretty and interesting in an old-fashioned way
Conwy Town is a picturesque and richly historic
touring centre

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QUAINT
/kweɪnt/
Adjective
Unusual and attractive, expecially in an old-fashioned
way
“What a quaint idea!” she said, laughing at him.

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BUSTLING (with sb/smth)
/ˈbʌsəlɪŋ/
adjective
a bustling place is very busy, hurrying
The flower market was bustling with shoppers.
The house, usually busting with activity, was
strangely silent.

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VIBRANT
/ˈvaɪbrənt/
adjective
full of activity or energy in a way that
is exciting and attractive SYN lively
However, Coleridge’s poems are not all so vibrant or
meditative.

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adjective
connected with the Middle Ages (= the period
between about 1100 and 1500 AD), ancient

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MEDIEVAL, MEDIAEVAL
/ˌmediˈiːvəl/
adjective
connected with the Middle Ages (= the period
between about 1100 and 1500 AD), ancient
These spices were first brought to Italy from the
East in medieval times.

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PICTURESQUE

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BUSTLING

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MEDIEVAL, MEDIAEVAL

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VIBRANT

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QUAINT

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What adjs can be used to describe the centre of your
city?
PICTURESQUE
VIBRANT
QUAINT
MEDIEVAL
BUSTLING

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URBAN
/ˈɜːbən/
adjective [only before noun]
relating to towns and cities OPP rural
The problem of air pollution is especially
serious in urban areas.

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1 Name the positive sides of living in any urban area.
2 What kind of problems would you encounter?

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Splendid
Mistakes
Progress

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Problems:
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Problems:
- traffic pollution

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Do you agree that
MINSK has already
faced such a
problem?
How many
European
countries have
exceeded(TOO
MUCH) air quality
standards?

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Let 's watch the video (00:00 – 00:55) and find out the number.
Number of the countries _____

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Let 's watch the video (00:55 – 02:04).
What kind of things do Europe authorities do to tackle traf c pollution? Tick them.
Policies
Less pedestrian area
More e-charging stations
More electric vehicles
Less congestion charges
Prohibition on the use of vehicles in a certain period of time
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NEW WORDS FOR YOU
DEFINITION
Pedestrian area
/pəˈdes.tri.ən/
a person who is walking, especially in
an area where vehicles go
E-charging station
A place, where plug-in electric vehicles can be
charged
Electric vehicle
/ˈviːɪkəl/
electric cars, trucks
To set up
to place or build something somewhere,
especially something that is not permanent
Congestion charge
/kənˈdʒestʃən/
an amount of money that you have to pay each
day to drive into a city centre