Unit 3
Urban population growth
Pre-reading tasks
Broaden your general vocabulary
Match each word with give or take.
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| good impression
good care
unnecessary risks
final warning
all the help
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| awful headaches
interesting talk
short walk
full responsibility
quick glance
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Broaden your vocabulary
Complete each sentence using a word partnership with give and take.
- Being a firefighter is not a dangerous job as long as you don’t take …………………………...
- For the new job, the corporation needs someone who can work on their own and take …………………………...
- I’m leaving early in the morning. See you next summer. Take ………………………….. of yourself.
- If you want to give a ………………………….. at the interview, you’d better wear a new suit.
- Mike’s boss gave him a …………………………..: “If you take another day off you’ll be fired!”
- The lecturer gave us a ………………………….. on future methods of space travel.
- Somebody do me a favour! Open the window! The new paint gives me …………………………...
- The teacher has already had ………………………….. at your results. He says they look very encouraging.
- You don’t have to worry about that. They’ll give you ………………………….. they can. They’ll do their best.
- He wanted to tell something in private, so we took a …………………………...
Reading tasks
Read the article
Article integrity
Insert each word (a-f) to restore the integrity of the article.
| a. political instability
| b. rural areas
| c. high-income nations
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| d. enterprises
| e. urban criteria
| f. resource shortages
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