City and country

1. Answer the questions:

• What makes the country
ideal for living in it?
• What makes the city ideal
for living in it?

2. An Ideal city

entertainment – cinemas, museums, cafes,
concert halls, Palaces of Culture, galleries,
architectural memorials, monuments, sports
grounds, clubs, hobby groups, recreation areas
(parks, nature reserves, beaches, ponds and
lakes amusement parks, etc.
honest and respectable authorities
the look of the place – clean; comfortable; beautiful (with
flowerbeds, fountains, lawns, sculptures, etc.); absence of
broken benches, stairs, windows, open manholes, etc.
historical importance
developed infrastructure – hospitals, chemist’s, kindergartens, schools,
institutions, shops of all kinds (food, clothes, electronics,
household goods, toys, furniture, etc.), markets, children’s playgrounds,
dry-cleaner’s, sport stadiums, hairdresser’s (barber’s), churches, developed
transport system, banks and company offices, libraries, services of
communication, plants and factories, opportunities for getting a good job, etc.

3. An Ideal country

entertainment –Palaces of Culture, recreation
areas (parks, nature reserves, beaches, ponds
and lakes amusement parks, etc.) ………….
……………………………………………………………….
honest and respectable authorities
the look of the place – clean; fresh, ……………………..
…………………………………………………………………………………
historical importance ?????????????
developed infrastructure –schools, churches,
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4.

5.

Settlement
town
megalopolis
capital
city
village