Dvizh. Spotlight 11

1.

Homelessness
Shanty towns
Neighbourhood

2.

Have you ever seen someone sleeping in a shop doorway, in a train
station or on a park bench? Why do you think these people don’t have a
home?
To have money
To lose homes
To pay the rent
To run away from home
A natural disaster

3.

Read the title of the text and the introduction. What do you think
Jasmine’s life is like? Discuss in pairs. Listen and check.
It must be
awful to live like
that.
She must feel cold and
uncomfortable. It also
embarrassing to have to
ask passers-by for money.
She must be
feeling really
depressed.

4.

Before reading learn new words.
abandoned
заброшенный
to beg
умолять
to toss
бросать
addict
приверженец
to date
from от
берущий
начало
to choke
задыхаться
нанимать на
to take sb on
работу
barely
едва
рассказывать о
to open up
своих чувтвах
номер с завтраком
B&B
(bed&breakfast)
сводить концы с
to make ends meet
концами
posh
роскошный
быстрорастущий
boom town
город
scarce
скудный
придерживаться
to stick to
чего-либо
cosmopolitan
всемирный
беспл. столовая
soup kitchen
д/бедных
вышедший из
disused
употребления
warehouse
склад
squat
приют
odd
случайный
хорошоwell-lit
освещенный
toвырываться
break out of
vicious circle
порочный
круг
reluctant
вынужденный
run-down
обветшалый
cramped
тесный

5.

Read the title of the text and the introduction. What do you think
Jasmine’s life is like? Discuss in pairs. Listen and check.
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3

6.

Read the text and choose the correct answer to answer the questions.
Text 1
Text 2
Text 3

7.

Match the words to their definitions.
foster
cramped
drug addict
shivering with cold
choke
filthy
toss
make ends meet
couches
vicious circle
posh
odd night
dignity
self-esteem
A problem or difficult situation
that
creates
new
problems
which
Feeling
Long
Official
soft
so
seats
cold
care
that
for
arranged
two
itimportance
or
by
three
the
A
person’s
sense
of
To
barely
cover
allcauses
your
Having
not
enough
space
for
People
who
are
dependent
onthe
a
Occasional
Very
dirty
night
Expensive
Throw
How
you
feel
about
yourself
To
lose
the
ability
to
breathe
cause
the
original
problem
again
person
people
to
shake family
government
or
another
and
value
essential
living
expenses
only
occupants
drug

8.

Industrial, capital, boom, cosmopolitan, overcrowded, historic, market,
shanty, new.
industrial
historic
boom
new
capital
cosmopolitan
overcrowded
market
shanty

9.

Make similar sentences for towns/cities in your country.
St. Petersburg is a historic city with
lots of interesting monuments.
Moscow is the capital city
of Russia.
Industrial, capital,
cosmopolitan, overcrowded,
historic, market, boom,
shanty, new.
Vladivostok is an industrial
city with a large port.
Moscow has become very cosmopolitan with
lots of new immigrants.

10.

Check these phrases in the Word List. Use the phrases to complete
well-bit
the sentences. residential
run-down
приют,
squat
ночлежка
pedestrianised
office
офис
fully-furnished
вышедший
из употребления
disused
posh
полностью обставленный
fully-furnished
rough
мебелью
abandoned
пришедший
run-down
в негодность
хорошоwell-lit
освещенный
disused
squat
office
роскошный
posh
опасный
rough
residential
жилой
закрытый для автомобильного
pedestrianised
движения
заброшенный
abandoned

11.

Which adjectives best describe Jasmine’s feelings? Give reasons.
Life on the streets is
IShe
think
Jasmine
feels
lonely
probably
feels
anxious
I
think
she
also
feels
difficult and dangerous.
because
she
has
no family
or
as abandoned
well,
not
knowing
what’s
because
no
Maybe she also feels
friends
to help
her.
going
to
happen
to
one
helps
her.
confused too. her.
proud
lonely
abandoned
excited
anxious
delighted
confused

12.

Work
in pairs.
Take
the
of
the journalist and Jasmine. Conduct
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people
findroles
it
hard
to
Yes,
quite
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wish
I And
had
stayed
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hope
and
pray
one
daythere’s
soon
cold
and
lonely.
understand
whystayed
I it.
gavein
a foster
home in
your interview.
Record
on
at
school
and
I’ll
get
a
council
flat
and
will
finally
also
the
uncertainty,
the
danger.
Itbut
is
For
six
years
now,
since
foster
care
to
make
it
on
my
own
care
until
I was
Maybe
have
my sixteen.
own
place
to call home.
ofeighteen.
existence,
believe
I worst
was
Ithe
wanted
tokind
be independent.
Little
did
then I would have
a job or would
me!
uhave
knowgone
hardtoitcollege.
would be.
How
have
you
been
What
Dolong
you
is the
regret
worst
your
thing
Why
Is there
do you
anylive
wayhere?
out?
living being
on
thehomeless?
street?
about
actions?

13.

Do you agree with the statement below? Why?/Why not?