1. Complete the text with townscape and landscape features in the box.

(Hoàn thành bài khóa với bằng cách điền các đặc điểm về cảnh quan thị trấn và phong cảnh trong hộp.)

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I just had to write today about the latest urban development plans. Have you read them? They want to knockdown some 200-year-old houses and use the land to build ... yes, you guessed! A (1) housing estate with 100 modern homes. I know there’s a shortage of housing in our town, but it's not as if they're getting rid of a (2) _____ with houses in a terrible condition - these are beautiful old buildings! And what about the old

school? Surely that's a (3) _____? It should be turned into a museum, not destroyed!

Luckily, it's not all bad news. At the moment, the river is a real mess, but the council are finally going to clean it up. After they've removed all the rubbish, it will be a (4) _____ again, not a slow, dirty one. They're going to build a new pedestrian (5) _____ over the water so people can cross the river easily and a (6) _____ that will serve international food and be family-friendly. They're also building a new (7) _____ with over fifty shops, mostly for clothes.

So what do you think? Comment below!

These new houses will spoil the area completely. There’s a (8) _____ from the top of the hill looking down over the town at the moment, which people come from all over to see...but soon it’ll just be rows of houses.

I think they should build the development on the other side of town.

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I've heard they want to build a (9) _____ so boats can go right through the town centre. Is that true? I hope not! We don't live in Venice!

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The shopping centre is a terrible idea. Now everyone goes to the shops round the old (10) _____, and we have a busy town centre. If people start to shop by the river instead, many places in the centre may end up closing, which would be a disaster!

2. Choose the correct option. (Chọn đáp án đúng.)

1. Turn right at/ in / on the roundabout.

2. We live at / in / on the coast near Dover.

3. Luckily, I live in / within / by walking distance of the town centre so I never take the bus.

4. We often play football at / on / in the park.

5. The local shops are at / in / within easy reach of our house, they're only five minutes away.

6. It's easy to get to the countryside because we live at / on / in the outskirts of town,

7. We don't live at / on / in the suburbs, we live at / on / in the city centre.

8.  You can get lots of tourist information at / on / in the town hall.

9. My school is in / within / at 500 metres of my house, so it doesn't take long to get there.

3. Circle the word that does NOT collocate with the adjective given.

1. urban                       area/space/town/development

2. quaint                      space / backstreet / town / neighbourhood

3 bustling                    market / square / nightlife / streets

4. shabby                     building / city centre / architecture / house

5. vibrant                     square / atmosphere / nightlife / colours

6. medieval                 architecture /colours /castle/ centre

7. picturesque              old town / scenery / village/ development

 Read the extracts from city guides and choose the correct answers A - C.

(Đọc các đoạn trích sau từ hướng dẫn từ thành phố và chọn các đáp án đúng A – C.)

Brazil's cities combine some of South America's most beautiful beaches with vibrant culture and (1) __B__ streets.

Get lost in the quaint little (2) _____ of Seville’s Santo Cruz district.

Many of Amsterdam’s budget hotels are located in the (3) _____ area close to Central Station.

Visit the (4) _____ old town in Lisbon and enjoy its many wonderful buildings.

Bilbao’s centre has undergone huge urban (5) _____ and is now home to the Guggenheim Museum.

For (6) _____ architecture, visit Carcassonne in France. The town is built on a hillside, surrounding an old castle.

Ibiza's (7) _____ nightlife includes some of the largest and most famous nightclubs in the world.

1. A inner                    B. bustling                   C. nightlife

2. A. backstreets          B. cities                       C. nightlife

3. A. square                 B. urban                      C. neighbourhood

4. A. urban                  B. building                  C. picturesque

5. A. scenery               B. development          C. neighbourhood

6. A. medieval             B. shabby                    C. quaint

7. A. delicious             B. charming                C. vibrant

5. Match the beginnings of the sentences with the endings.

(Nối các phần đầu và phần đuôi của các câu sau.)

1. The city centre is great for biking because there are a lot of cycle

2. There's a pedestrian

3. In the old town there are plenty of cobbled

4. Bangkok isn't a quiet city, there's noise

5. There isn't any on-street

6. The town is surrounded by rolling

7. When I go into the city centre, I leave my car in an underground

8. I don't drive in the city because there's a reliable

9 We live in the suburbs so I have a short daily

a. parking where I live, so I leave my car at my parents' house,

b. car park while I go shopping.

c. zone where no cars are allowed.

d. streets which make it picturesque.

e. commute to my office in the city centre.

f. lanes that you can use.

g. hills where you can go hiking.

h. pollution day and night.

i. network of buses and trams.

6. Complete each pair of sentences with the correct words A - C.

(Hoàn thành các cặp câu sau với các từ chính xác.)

1. That book up there on the shelf is just out of my _____. Could you pass it to me?

School's not far away, it's within easy _____.

A. access                     B. distance                              C. reach

2. The nightlife is great, but it creates a lot of noise _____.

_____ is a serious environmental problem in big cities.

A. parking                   B. pollution                             C. area

3. There's a _____ atmosphere in the town centre.

All the fishing boats on the island are painted _____ colours.

A. vibrant                    B. bustling                              C. picturesque

4. I use the train for my _____ commute to work.

It's a _____ newspaper, so there's a new edition every morning.

A. short                       B. regular                               C. daily

5. There's a children's play area in our local _____that we often go to.

Let's leave the car in the new underground car _____ while we have lunch.

A. zone                        B. parking                               C. park

7. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

1. There's a relying bus network in our town. reliable

2. Would you rather live in a busy city centre or on the suburbs where it's quieter?

3. The centre of Amsterdam is great for cyclists because there are plenty of cycling lanes.

4. We visited a lovely market town at the border of England and Wales.

5. Although I haven't lived there for a long time, Dundee is my house town - I was born there and often go back to visit family.

6. Our town attracts a lot of tourists- it's full of quaint backstreets and historical monuments.