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Contrasting Urban and Rural Living: City vs. Town Comparison

Explore the differences between city and town life through photos, traffic, people, lifestyle, and transportation. Learn key vocabulary and word stress in English for effective communication.

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Contrasting Urban and Rural Living: City vs. Town Comparison

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  1. Chapter. 1 Neighborhoods, Cities and Towns

  2. Part 1 • Look at these photos. Compare and contrast the two pictures.

  3. In a city, the buildings are tall, or low? • What about towns? • Traffic: Heavy? Light? • people: Few/ Not crowded? Many / crowded? • Lifestyle: Quiet? Noisy? Exciting? Busy? • Transportation: Public buses? Taxis?

  4. Vocabulary

  5. Life in a big city is always……… . There are a lot of things to do. • My ………….. is Mexico City. I was born there. • Paris is the …….. of France. • Seoul, Korea, has a large …….. More than ten million people live there. • What kind of ….. do you use- the train, the bus or the subway?

  6. Syllable Stress • Each word is made from syllables. • Each word has 1, 2, 3 or more syllables. • Each syllable usually has at least one vowel (a, e, I, o, u)

  7. Word Stress • To stress syllables or words, we make them LONGER in duration and HIGHER and louder in tone. • In English, if the word has more than one syllable, we stress one specific syllable. • For sentences, not all words are stressed on the same level. This makes the English language musical and not monotonous. • Stressed words must be one of the CONTENT words. • Unstressed words are called FUNCTION words.

  8. Content Words

  9. Function Words

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