1. Mumbai, a city of contrasts undergoing a quiet revolution.
Oral + written accounts

2. Today’s work (book p46-47)
Prepare a two minute oral account on “Mumbai, a city of contrasts undergoing a quiet revolution”
Make sure to include the essential facts from the 3 articles and at least 5 words from the “help boxes” on p 46-47!
You should try and speak for 2 minutes at the end of this period, you will have to write a 10 line written account next class + flash test on the vocabulary p

3. Bitter, disillusioned, gloomy
Oral Recap: Mumbai
Poverty-stricken
Better prospects
Below the poverty line
In dire straits
Bitter, disillusioned, gloomy
Shabby, squalid, filthy

4. prompts Mumbai is a striking city because there is/are…
There is a sharp contrast between the tall glass builinds and the slums that spread around the city. The slums are …
We can’t help noticing the contrasts between…
Photos of this city convey/give an impression of…

5. The brand new shopping malls give a surprising vision of a new India: Modern India is…
The new upper-middle class work in town, in … factories, out-sourced companies… (brain gain, access to higher education, tycoons =/= underpaid unskilled workers, the homeless, slums)
The majority of Indians live in poor rural areas, they have to… (difficult living conditions =?)