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Talk about your hometown.Where is your hometown?Do you like your hometown?What are some of the special places in your hometown?1a Check (√ ) the places or things you can find in your town or city.____ a museum ____ a primary school____ a bridge ____ a zoo ____ a park ____ a hill ____ a library ____ a river√√√√√√√√Listen and answer the questions.1. Does Martin like Jenny’s hometown?2. Does Jenny still live in her hometown?3. What is behind the science museum? What do people do there on weekends? Yes, he does.No, she doesn’t.A big park. People go there to let their kids run around and climb the hills.Listen again and fill in the chart about the places in Jenny’s hometown.Place New or old?How long has it been there?town libraryscience museumrestaurant down the streetoldfor hundreds of yearsnewsince last Augustoldfor as long as Jenny canrememberTalk about your town/city with a partner.A: My city is lovely.B: What are some of the special places there?A: Well, there’s a concert hall there. It’s been around for at least 20 years.How often do you visit your hometown?What are the changes in your hometown?Answer the questions before you read. Then read the passage to find out if your answers are the same as in the passage.1. Why do millions of Chinese leave the countryside every year?2. How often do you think these people visit their hometowns?3. What new buildings does the government usually build in towns and villages?To search for work in citiesI think they visit their home towns once or twice a year.Large hospitals and new schools.Find expressions in the passage that have the same meanings as these words and phrases.1. look for _________ 5. go back _______2. consider ________ 6. changes _________3. across from _______ 7. area _______4. in one’s opinion ___________search forregardoppositeaccording toreturndevelopmentsplaceComplete the summary with words from the passage. You may need to change the forms of the words.Many Chinese people these days leave their _________ to work in _______. They usually _______ to their hometown one or two times a ______. Zhong Wei hasn’t been back in close to three years. He has been working in a ________ factory in Wenzhou for the past 13 years.hometowncitiesreturnyearcrayonPeople like him are _________ in how their hometowns are changing. New buildings are often built by the ___________. Zhong Wei thinks these changes are _____ because things need to change in order to become better. But he also thinks some things ___________ change, and his hometown is still the place that holds all his childhood _________.interestedgovernmentgoodwill nevermemoriesThink of changes that happening in your town or city today. Which changes are generally good? Which changes could be seen as bad?。