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Cities
Cities
International hubs
Can you match the city types with the definitions?
1. established capitals
2. re-invented capitals
3. knowledge hubs
A B C
Cities with an important Usually the national These cities are important
role in the global economy capital, lots of in their national economies
– important centres for organisations have their – as well as in the global
international trade, headquarters in these economy. Usually these
industry, business and cities. They are also the cities have moved on from
finance. E.g. Lyon, centres of national an industrial past to
Stockholm. administration and public modern economic
services. E.g. Madrid, activities. They are often in
Rome. Eastern European
countries; the most recent
members of the European
Union. E.g. Prague,
Warsaw.
What are the benefits of trees to these things?
Benefits Why?
Children
Health
The economy
Climate change
Mental wellbeing
Infrastructure
Ex. 6 Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.
The city of Manchester in England has embarked on an (1) project
____________ plan to plant three million trees. The (2) ____________ existing
is called the "City of Trees". Project director, Tony Hothersall, explained ambitious
that the green venture had three main (3) ____________. He said: benefits
"One is to plant three million trees - a tree for every man, woman and focused
child - over the next 25 years. Next, we are very much (4) engage
____________ on bringing (5) ____________ woodland into aims
management because there is no point in planting new woodland if you manage
can't (6) ____________ what you've got already. Finally, we want to (7)
____________ people a lot more in their natural environment - in
planting trees, in managing areas, [and] in understanding more about
the (8) ____________ that trees and woodlands bring to our society."
Mr Hothersall further outlined the (9) ____________ behind the reduce
recently-launched environmental project. He said: "Manchester wants to fantastic
be a world-class city region. We have a lot of (10) ____________ resilient
development going on, but the natural environment needs to keep up rationale
with that." He believes the (11) ____________ will reconnect people terms
with trees and the natural world, provide benefits to health and (12) effect
____________ stress. He said: "Woodlands can do great things in (13) initiative
____________ of air pollution reduction and can help to (14) screen
____________ for noise pollution. They can also help cities and towns
become more (15) ____________ to climate change both in terms of
things like reducing the urban heat island (16) ____________ and also
reducing…flooding."