Grade 8 Unusual Cities Unit 5F

Aim: I can understand the text about unusual cities.

1.Match each question 1-7 with one of the texts (A-C).

Which text is about a city which…

1. Has more than a million inhabitants?

2. Is easy to travel around?

3. Is next to a much larger city?

4. Is less than a hundred years old?

5. Has a good system of recycling?

6. Offers high salaries for workers?

7. Has a lot of green spaces?

/ 7 points

2. Explain the signifance (nozīmīgums) of these numbers and measurements

(mērvienības) from the texts in StB p.59:

Text A 1,7 million Curitiba has a population of about 1,7 million.

400 metres
50 square metres
Text B 2,000
70
300 km
Text C Eight million
60.000
90%
/8 points

3. Translate the words and phrases:

1. A medium- sized city-

2. Unusual

3. Polluted

4. The cleanest and greenest

5. Cause a lot of pollution

6. Inhabitants

7. Public transport

8. Passengers

9. Square metres

10.The bus system

11.Further than

12.Green space per person

13.Atrašanās vieta

14.Mākslīgs

15.Cilvēka uzbūvēts

16.uz salas

17.Piemēram,

18.Eksistēt (dēļ kaut kā)

+prievārds

19.Nafta

20.Būt sliktā/ labā stāvoklī

21.Droši lietošanai

22.Tilti

23.Dzīvokļi

24.Iespējams

25.Algas

26.The capital
 27.Like any city

28.Create tonnes of rubbish

29.Amazingly

30.Employ

31.Collect rubbish

32.A group of people

33.A small amount of money

34.On the edge of

35.Sort by hand

36.Strādāt ļoti labi

37.Pateicoties (kaut kam)

/37 points
4. Make a question and answer about the cities in the texts. Use the superlative
form of these adjectives: (7 points)
Attractive/ugly big/small clean/dirty near/ far
e.g. Which is the most attractive city?
I think Curitiba is the most attractive.
Vēstulē norādīšu, kura teksta daļa kuram jāiesūta iztulkota. 10 points