VOCABULARY

CITY

comfortable

exciting

to find a good and interesting job

more opportunities

to succeed in life

to spend one’s leisure time

services

shopping

sport facilities

city-dweller

block of flats

heavy traffic

fumes

to pollute the air

car accidents

parking place

crime rate

inhabitant

city centre

detached house

terraced house

skyscraper

the main street

underground

city transport

COUNTRY

easy

comfortable

rural

living conditions

development of agriculture

to change for better

farmer

peasant

villager

villager’s cottages

neglected

electricity

lack of money

crops

farm

unemployment

to buy some land

to cultivate the land

to work hard in the fields

to grow fruit and vegetables

to live peacefully

TOWN

nosy people

noisy

the same school

in the same plants

to have more courage

to discuss something

behaviour

to move to a big city

to leave

no parking problems

the choice is limited

to find a job

suitable

unemployment rate

cultural centre

medical disorders

to be hospitalized

specialist

shopping

assortment of goods

high quality goods

1.     What are the advantages of living in a big city?

2.     Would you live in a little town? Why? Why not?

3.     Would you like to live in a country? Why? Why not?

4.     Where would you like to live: in a big city or in the country?

5.     What is the atmosphere of small towns?

6.     What are of advantages of living in a village?

7.     Why do many people in Poland move to big cities?

8.     What should be done to make country life easier?