1. Skills building 1: Identifying emotive language

2. Emotive adjectives Hyperbole Tone of voice A few emotive language signals to look out for when conducting an interview.

3. Step 1: asking about life in the past

4. transportbuildingsjobsenvironm ent In the past 1. _____ _______ _____ to school 4. __________ and few shops; biggest building was the 5._______ A lot of people were involved in the 7._____ industry Air was 10.____ toda y Takes a 2. _____ or 3. _______ The 6.______ ____________ ________is far bigger Big industries include the 8.________ industry and 9.________ industry Sea is full of 11._____; air is 12._____ walked or rode a bike bus taxi small houses school new department store fishing rubbish catering fresh tourism polluted

5. Emotive adjectiveshyperbole Positive: wonderful exceptional glorious excellent Negative: terrible frightening awful horrifying as cold as 1. _________ sleep for 2.___________ as 3.__________ as a mountain as 4._______ as a whale ice a hundred years big

6. Catering industry fashion industry Pulishing industry Tourism industry type of restaurant: 1_____ location: 2________ jobs: chefs and 3________ clothes being sold: made by 4___________ fashion show: to raise money for a 5__________ authors visiting bookshops to sign books: local 6 ____ types of business:7______ ________and 8___________ ____________ seafood top floor waiters designers local charity book club travle agencies a tourist information office

7. answers 1. shopping centre 2. catering 3. seafood 4. chef 5. waiters 6. fashion 7. charity 8. authors 9. publishing 10. tourist 11. tourism

8. Skills building 2: discussing probability of the future

9. Step 2: Interviewing the City Development Council

10. Read the guidelines on page 12 and learn the phrases by heart.

11. town/ become a major tourist attraction in the future? town /continue to develop? more shopping centres/open? the problem of pollution/ get worse? sustainable development /necessary for the fishing industry? the fashion industry/ever disappear from the town? Discuss

12. Skills building 3: Writing an essay

13. Following the structure 1.Use objective language 2.Provide facts and figures 3.Give examples 4.Discuss future probalility

14. Write an essay on the development of your town for the writing competition.

15. Our town has changed a lot over the years. It is now developing into a modern city form an old small town. In the past, the town only consisted of small house and simple shops. Today, however, many tall buildings have been built as a result of the booming fishing industry, tourism industry as well as the equally successful publishing industry. 范文

16. Many new businesses have opened, which has created hundreds of news jobs for local people. According to an official at the City Development Council, our town will definitely continue to develop at a fast speed in the future. On the whole, as time goes on, there is no doubt that our town will take on a new look and finally become a modern city.