Careers in city planning

A professional city planner needs certain personal and educational qualifications. City planners have a special interest in design, social planning, and economic development. Most planning positions are available only to people who have a master’s degree in city planning. People with a master’s degree in city planning may have a bachelor’s degree in architecture, computer programming, economics, engineering, finance, law, political science, statistics, and sociology.

2 Reading

2.1 Scanning. Look through the text and define whether your hypothesis is right. Compare the information from the text with your notes (1.1).

 

2.2 Skimming. Find in the text the answers to the questions you failed to respond before reading. Add the missing answers to the table (1.3).

 

2.3 Grammar. State the sense relations between words of the marked sentences by using the proposed algorithm in the Tips.

 

 

2.4 Lexis

2.4.1 Tick in the list (1.4) the words and expressions you realized after reading the text without dictionary. Write down their translation in the table and calculate the percentage of your ability to guess the meaning of the words from the context.

2.4.2 Find in the dictionary the words you could not translate. Write down their translation in the table (1.4) and calculate the percentage of new words you should learn.

2.5 Abstracting. Write an abstract using the algorithm proposed in the Tips.

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