Headway Elementary, 5th edition, unit 9 — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:10welcome to unit
3. 0:129 this unit is all about City
4. 0:16life I live in Leeds a big city in the
5. 0:20north of England it's a beautiful place
6. 0:24and I love living there because the
7. 0:25people are really
8. 0:28friendly where do you live
9. 0:31what's it like
10. 0:33there I live in Remy in Italy and it's a
11. 0:37beautiful in
12. 0:39summer I live in Cordova which is a
13. 0:42small City in the south of
14. 0:44Spain I live in
15. 0:47Hamburg which is in the north of Germany
16. 0:50and it's very
17. 0:53beautiful in this unit you will learn
18. 0:56how to describe cities and compare them
19. 0:59to each other
20. 1:02Tokyo is bigger than
21. 1:07Madrid Moscow is colder than
22. 1:15Paris you'll also find out about one of
23. 1:18the most amazing sites in the
24. 1:21world Central Park in New
25. 1:25York it's America's biggest and oldest
26. 1:29City
27. 1:33Park what do you think it's like to live
28. 1:36at the top of a
29. 1:38skyscraper I'm scared of heights so I
30. 1:41wouldn't like it at
31. 1:43all in reading and speaking you'll find
32. 1:47out what life in the clouds is like and
33. 1:50what some of the everyday problems
34. 1:54are everyday English practices
35. 1:57directions and the prepositions that
36. 1:59describe how to get from one place to
37. 2:03another like
38. 2:06down
39. 2:09past
40. 2:14[Music]
41. 2:26along living in a big city can be a
42. 2:30great
43. 2:31experience some of the world's biggest
44. 2:34cities like Beijing in
45. 2:37China and Delhi in India are exciting
46. 2:42places to live and to
47. 2:45visit these cities have got huge
48. 2:51populations many beautiful historic
49. 2:55[Music]
50. 2:58buildings
51. 3:01and some interesting modern architecture
52. 3:04too but like many big cities they are
53. 3:08very
54. 3:09crowded and they've got problems with
55. 3:12traffic and
56. 3:15pollution people didn't think about cars
57. 3:18when they built
58. 3:21them other cities like Copenhagen the
59. 3:25capital city of
60. 3:27Denmark and ockland on the north island
61. 3:31of New Zealand are much
62. 3:34smaller and they are famous for being
63. 3:37great places to live with a very high
64. 3:40quality of
65. 3:43life these cities are clean and
66. 3:47safe but they are also very
67. 3:52expensive whether they are big or small
68. 3:57cities can be amazing places to live and
69. 4:02visit which kind of city do you
70. 4:06[Music]
71. 4:20prefer Paris the capital city of France
72. 4:25is in the north of the country on the
73. 4:28river Sen
74. 4:30[Music]
75. 4:34with a population of around 2.2 million
76. 4:39Paris is the largest city in
77. 4:42France it is also one of the most
78. 4:45popular cities in the world for
79. 4:50tourists around 22 million visitors come
80. 4:54to the city every
81. 4:56year the best time to visit Paris
82. 5:00is in the
83. 5:01summer the city can get very
84. 5:05crowded but generally it isn't too
85. 5:09hot the average summer temperature is
86. 5:12only 25°
87. 5:16C Paris is famous for its
88. 5:19cafes its
89. 5:21fashion and its amazing
90. 5:25architecture and it's easy to see why
91. 5:28people want to visit this beautiful and
92. 5:31historic
93. 5:34City this is the muse dors on the Left
94. 5:39Bank of the river
95. 5:42Sen when this building opened in
96. 5:461900 it was a busy train
97. 5:49station today it is a very important art
98. 5:54museum and it has sculptures and
99. 5:57paintings by famous artists s like
100. 6:00vanoff
101. 6:01Monet and
102. 6:05Renoir while there aren't any
103. 6:07skyscrapers in the center of
104. 6:11Paris it has got one of the most famous
105. 6:14tall structures in the
106. 6:17world the
107. 6:19324 M Eiffel
108. 6:22Tower the tower opened in
109. 6:261889 it took just over 2 years to
110. 6:31build and for over 40 years it was the
111. 6:35tallest structure in the
112. 6:38world today it's the busiest tourist
113. 6:41attraction in the
114. 6:43city with more than 7 million visitors
115. 6:47every
116. 6:49year you can climb to the top but there
117. 6:53are
118. 6:561,665
119. 6:57stairs so most people take the
120. 7:03lift and you can get the best views of
121. 7:06this wonderful City from the
122. 7:08[Music]
123. 7:24top 5,000 kilm from Paris in the the
124. 7:29United Arab Emirates is the city of
125. 7:34Dubai it's the biggest city in the
126. 7:39region and it's got a population of
127. 7:42around 2.9
128. 7:48Million the city is on the Dubai Creek
129. 7:52which is always busy with water taxis
130. 7:54full of local
131. 7:56residents and some of the3 million
132. 7:59tourists who visit the city every
133. 8:04year there are old parts of the
134. 8:07city but today Dubai is most famous as a
135. 8:12modern city full of
136. 8:17skyscrapers there are already 18
137. 8:20buildings over 300 M tall in the city
138. 8:26center tourists come here to see the bur
139. 8:29Al
140. 8:31Arab the world's most luxurious
141. 8:35Hotel it's got 202
142. 8:39bedrooms and the most expensive room is
143. 8:42over
144. 8:44$24,000 a
145. 8:46[Music]
146. 8:47night Dubai is also famous for having
147. 8:51one of the world's tallest
148. 8:54structures the
149. 8:56828 M tall Burge Khalifa
150. 9:00it's got 21 floors and over
151. 9:0524,000
152. 9:08windows but in the summer it is far too
153. 9:12hot to spend time
154. 9:14Outdoors looking at the Fantastic modern
155. 9:17architecture of
156. 9:20Dubai the average temperature in July is
157. 9:2444°
158. 9:27C so the most popular attractions in the
159. 9:30city are
160. 9:32indoors where the temperature is much
161. 9:37cooler and the biggest attraction of all
162. 9:40is the Dubai
163. 9:43Mall the Dubai Mall is one of the
164. 9:46largest shopping centers in the
165. 9:49world it has got over
166. 9:521,200
167. 9:54shops and
168. 9:56750,000 people visit the mall every
169. 9:59every
170. 10:00[Music]
171. 10:02week shops sell everything from
172. 10:05expensive clothes and jewelry to
173. 10:11electronics but there's also a lot to do
174. 10:14and see for visitors who don't want to
175. 10:19shop inside the mall are 22 Cinema
176. 10:24screens a beautiful
177. 10:28aquarium
178. 10:31and even an olympic sized ice rink which
179. 10:35is definitely the coolest place in this
180. 10:38spectacular modern
181. 10:40[Music]
182. 10:46city