Câu hỏi:

Talk about problems a city will have to face up to in the future.

You can use the following questions as cues:

•  What are the environmental problems?

•  What are the problems of resources?

•  What are negative effects of technology?

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Complete the notes:

Now you try!

Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.

1. In my opinion, the more populous cities are, the more problems they have.

2. Firstly, a future city will have to face up to environmental problems ...

3. Secondly, city dwellers will also have to cope with the shortage of resources ...

4. In addition, there are several problems that are related to technology ...

Now you tick!

Did you ...

- answer all the questions in the task?

- give some details to each main point?

- speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?

- use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?

- use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?

- pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?

 Let’s compare!

Finally, compare with the sample answer on page 190.