4A+9B: LISTENING PRACTICE: TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE_CITIES_COMMUTERS: INDEPENDENT LEARNING

 LISTENING AND VOCABULARY PRACTICE

 TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english/ep-180208

  Air travel has become commonplace for many people. Commonplace means ‘not unusual’.

Driverless vehicles
  
Far-fetched – like flying cars that we see in sci-fi movies – it's difficult to believe because it's unlikely to happen.


 
CITIES OF THE FUTURE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/thai/features/6-minute-english/ep-160714

What is the percentage of the world's population that will be living in cities in 2050? 

 Decent cycle lanes. Good transport networks are very important

Urban sprawl is the way a city spreads into undeveloped land around it, often without planning permission.

They end up building their own communities and houses on unoccupied land. And these communities are becoming in some places the majority not the minority and they're off the grid so they're not often serviced by either the social services but also many of them don't have water, sanitation and electricity.

 Shanty towns – poor communities where the houses are built out of cheap materials


 Infrastructure.

  /ˈɪnfrəˌstrʌktʃə/  the basic systems and structures that a country or organization needs in order to work properly, for example roads, railways, banks etc Some countries lack a suitable economic infrastructure. a $65 billion investment package in education, health care and infrastructure


 COMMUTING
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/persian/features/6-minute-english/ep-160128

Hundreds of millions of us make the same journey day in day out (done or happening every day for a long period of time).

Packed in like sardines describes people standing so close together that they can't move – like fish in a can! 

it's no fun being stuck in a traffic jam

 Let's face it – travelling by car or by public transport can be really miserable!