Ex.18. Student cost of living survey: Write five good questions about living costs. Ex.19. Discussion

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS

1. What did you think when you read the headline?

2. What is the cost of living like where you live?

3. Have you noticed changes in the cost of living in your town?

4. Would you like to live in Moscow or London?

5. Do you think the quality of life is good in cities that have a high cost of living?

6. Which world capitals would you choose to live in?

7. What things are reasonably priced where you live?

8. Do you like moving house/city/country?

9. Do you think you’d like an expatriate life?

10. Do you think it is/would be difficult to live in foreign country?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS

1. Did you like reading this article?

2. Are you interested in currency fluctuations?

3. Do you follow what is happening with the dollar or your own currency?

4. Would you recommend your city to human resource officers as a good place to live?

5. What do you think life is/would be like in the world’s most expensive cities?

6. Do you think today’s most expensive cities will always be among the world’s costliest places to live?

7. Do you think there are any advantages of living in very expensive cities?

8. Would you prefer to live in an expensive city or a cheap village in the mountains, far from any city?

9. Are city dwellers different from country people?

10. Did you like this discussion?

Ex.20. AFTER DISCUSSION: Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked about.

a.What was the most interesting thing you heard?

1. Was there a question you didn’t like?

2. Was there something you totally disagreed with?

3. What did you like talking about?

4. Which was the most difficult question?

Ex.21. Speaking: cost of living presentation:

You are a marketing executive for your town. You want people to come and live there. With your partner(s), write down the cost of living in your town for the items in the table. In the next column, explain why these prices are very reasonable.

Item	Cost	Why this is a reasonable price
Rent
Restaurants
Transport
Food
Water
Other _______

• Change partners and give each other feedback on how to make your town sound more affordable and better value for money.

• Make presentations to the class, selling your town.

• Decide on a winner for the best presentation.

Additional tasks

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations with each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information about the costs of living in Moscow and London. Talk about what you discover with your partner(s) at the next lesson.

3. COST OF LIVING: Make a poster on different world capitals. Find out how living costs vary in each place. Show your posters to your classmates at the next lesson.

4. MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Write a magazine article about the cost of living in your town. Describe what you think it’ll be like twenty years from now.

Read what you wrote to your classmates at the next lesson. Which article was the best and why?

5. LETTER: Write a letter to a Muscovite or Londoner. Ask him/her three questions about what it’s like living in such an expensive city. Give three suggestions about how they can stretch their money. Read your letter to your partner(s) at the next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

6. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN INTO ENGLISH: Find an article in Russian describing the economic situation in Moscow. Translate it into English.

7. SPEAKING: Speak on the topic of the article.

Unit VII

Topics: 1.World Customs Organization