The faculty of philology

Activity 2. Teacher asks students to work individually and provides them with listening track about Cities . Students should listen to the recording and fill the gaps with missing words. Choose the correct words to complete the text !The track can be found through the following link: https://www.listenaminute.com/p/cities.html
Teacher shares a handout with the text on topic Cities which is filled in vacant space.
Handout 2.
Have you ever walked around a city and thought , "This is paradise"? Or maybe, "This is the ugliest , most polluted, most dangerous and frightening place I have ever seen? Most of us have. And that's why most of us like to know about a place before we go there. One thing we can do is read a good ……. book. Another is to look at a new ……….conducted by William Mercer, one of the world' largest Human Resources consultancies.Mercer decided to……….some of the world's great cities. They produced their results by giving…………for ………..criteria. These included political, economic and social environment, healthcare, educational provision, recreation and transport…….. .So, which are the best cities to live in, and which should we…… ? In ………..first place were Vancouver, Berne, Vienna and Zurich, while Sydney, Geneva, Auckland and Copenhagen came in second. Swiss cities ………three of the top ten places, making it the single most successful country of all those surveyed.
3.While-listening task Handout2 In this task, students should divide into 2 group.
They should find European capital cities.


Handout 3
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Activity 3
Students should fill in the table and use the information to write a short text about their city. Get students to read each other’s texts to see if they agree with them. You might like to make a classroom display with their texts and some pictures or photographs to illustrate them.