London s Comings and Goings, Additional Work

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1 27 (104) London s Comings and Goings, Additional Work Explain the following phrases and expressions from the text to wind down to have a poor command of English to be politically sensitive to be all over the place to take into account to be a mite faster to be economically polarized rural romance the average annual growth rate on average to ape somebody Make a sentence with each expression.

2 28 (104) Match the words below with their right definitions 1. Home Office a. the districts around London 2. Council b. people who travel regularly from their homes to their work 3. Home counties c. people who have stopped working due to old age 4. Public services d. natives or inhabitants of Great Britain 5. Congestion e. people who develop real estate 6. Retired people f. residents in a town or city 8. Commuters g. body serving in an administrative capacity (Danish: råd) 9. Developers h. people who manage or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise 10. Townies i. services that are performed for the benefit of the public 11. Britons j. the department of domestic affairs in the British government (Danish: indenrigsministeriet) 12. Industrialists k. excessive crowding, e.g. in a city or in traffic

3 29 (104) Work in pairs. Take turns explaining and guessing the words on your lists. A B 1. Industrialists Congestion 3. Home Office Council 5. Public services Retired people 7. Home Counties Commuters 9. Townies Developers

4 30 (104) True or False? Mark the flowing statements as true or false and discuss your answers. Britain s first big wave of modern immigration was in the 1950s Half of all Britain s immigrants have come to London since the 1990s London s net gain of legal immigrants in 2000 was The arrival of so many immigrants in London has slowed down the city s economy Most immigrants in London come from high-income countries White people have the best jobs in London Most immigrants are self-employed Bangladeshis dominate central London White people flee London because it is turning into a black city Property prices in London are dropping because the wealthy move out It has become fashionable to live in the countryside, which is a change of traditional English mentality The British government realizes the problems of massive immigration and will do all it can to restrict the number of immigrants from the new EU countries TRUE FALSE BOTH

5 31 (104) Anagrams Rearrange the anagrams to find words or phrases from the text 1. reply Moe (hints: one word; noun; a person who pays people to work for him/her) 2. trippers recopy (hints: two words; noun in the plural; the costs of a house or an apartment) 3. I urge boos (hints: one word; adjective from French for a person who prefers city life) 4. security nod (hints: one word; noun; the opposite of town/city) 5. ill onion pop (hints: two words; noun; an inquiry into public attitudes or views) 6. rare cat (hints: two words with a hyphen; noun; an unpleasant situation of stressful competition for success) 7. bad wrack (hints: one word, noun; another word for downside, disadvantage) 8. thin Owen (hints: two words with a hyphen, noun, another term for black and coloured people) 9. Togo LSD music centre man (hints: three words of which two are connected with a hyphen; noun; people who travel far to get to work) 10. dry Hellenistic Eva (hints: two words; adverb and adjective; when a society contains a lot of ethnic differences, you may say it is _)