《Arnwick was a city with

外研版八年级英语上册《Arnwick was a city with 200.000 people》Population PPT优秀课件，共21页。

Why do people move to cities?

People want to live in cities , because they want to …

To find jobs to make money .

To get a better education for children.

To get a better medical treatment.

To enjoy better public services.

The population of cities increased.

What are the disadvantage of big cities？

Predict（预测）: What problems does she meet in the city?

Jo moved from a village to a city too.

fast reading

Read the passage quickly, then match the paragraph with the main ideas.

Reading tip:

1.Find the key words.

2.Find the main idea from the first or the last sentence of each paragraph.

Thinking

Why does Arnwick have so many problems?

Because the population of Arnwick became even larger.

If you were Jo, how would you feel?

Maybe angry, worried and so on.

Does the problems need to be solved? Why?

A good city environment is pretty important for us.

Who do you think should solve the problems?

close down( 永久) 关闭，关停

e.g. The company closed down its overseas office three months ago.

这个商店下周就要关闭了。

The store will close down next week.

getting to the nearest school in Arnwick takes her an hour by bus.

Doing sth takes +某人+ 时间： 做某事花费某人多少时间。

=It takes 某人+ 时间 to do sth.

It takes her an hour to get to the nearest school in Arnwick.

make an effort to do

=make efforts to do

make a great effort to do sth

e.g. The local companies are making an effort to attract more young people stay at home.

There will also be more local hospitals to meet the needs of the increasing population.

There will be 将会有...

明天将会有一场英语测试。

There will be an English test tommorrow.

meet the needs of 满足...需求

e.g.How can we meet the needs of all the different groups？

满足宝宝的需求是很重要的。

It is important to ______________________.