¡Descarga First Day at Work Experiences and Vancouver City Overview y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura inglesa solo en Docsity! Practice 3 >> Choose one word to complete the email. 0. Your you a 1. Do same even 2. Sell try buy 3. Keep stay eat 4. Will promise hope 5. When later next Página de 25 76 Hi Mum, How was (0) ______ day? Sorry - I didn’t (1) _____ my homework. I needed to go to the shop to (2) ______ some food. Can my friend Tom (3) _____ for dinner tonight? I (4) ______ to wash the dishes and tidy the house for you. See you (5) _______. Love, Jessica. Practice 2: >> Order the sentences so that make a complete, coherent text. TEXT 1 A. Fred entered his office, turned on the light and sat down at his desk. B. He decided to buy it, and so he entered his credit card number onto the website. C. He then read an online article about a new video game for his console. D. Following this, he clicked on the internet icon and navigated to his favourite website. E. Then, he turned on his computer. F. Once he had made the transaction, he received a purchase confirmation email. TEXT 2 A. In order for your flight to run smoothly, please take the following steps. B. Next, go to departures, passing through security and showing your passport. C. You must check in 24 hours before your flight by printing the details or an app. D. The staff will take your luggage and check you details before sending you to security. E. Upon arrival please go directly to the desk with your flight details and passport. F. Now you can enjoy the shops and restaurants until your flights is called. Página de 28 76 READING PART 4 Practice 1 >> To complete the task, you need to match 7 headings to the correct paragraphs in the text. Choose from the list (A-I) and match it to a paragraph (1-7). There is an extra sentence and an example given (0). VANCOUVER Página de 39 76 0. Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631.486 people in the city, up from 603.502 in 2011. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco and Mexico City according to the census. 1. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. The city has been called “a city of neighbourhoods” as each area has its own distinctive ethnic and cultural mix. People of English, Scottish and Irish heritage were the historically the largest ethnic groups, but this has been surpassed by immigration from Hong Kong and mainland China since the 1980s. Nowadays, roughly 30% of the city’s inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. 2. Many plants and trees growing throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland were imported from other parts of the continent and points across the Pacific. Examples include the monkey puzzle tree, the Japanese Maple, and various flowering exotics. Some species imported from harsher climates in Eastern Canada or Europe have thrived and grown to immense sizes. Many of the city’s streets are lined with flowering varieties of Japanese cherry trees donated from the 1930s onward by the government of Japan. These flower for several weeks in early spring each year; an occasion celebrated by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. 3. With its location on the Pacific Rim and at the western terminus of Canada’s transcontinental highway and rail routes, Vancouver is one of the nation’s largest industrial centres. In recent years, Vancouver has become a centre for software development, biotechnology, aerospace, video game development, animation studios and television production and film industry. Vancouver hosts approximately 65 movies and 55 TV series annually and is the 3rd largest film & TV production centre in North America. HEADINGS. A. A growing city in the Americas. B. Health, sport and intellectual offerings. C. From factories to the silver screen. D. The pride of Canada. Página de 40 76 4. Vancouver’s scenic location makes it a major tourist destination. Over 10.3 million people visited Vancouver in 2017. Annually, tourism contributes approximately £4.8 billion to the Metro Vancouver economy and supports over 70000 jobs. Many visit to see the city’s gardens, Stanley Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, VanDusen Botanical Garden and the mountains, ocean, forest and parklands which surround the city. Each year over a million people pass through Vancouver on cruise ship vacations, often bound for Alaska. 5. Vancouver is the most stressed city in the spectrum of affordability of housing in Canada. In 2012, Vancouver was ranked as the second-most unaffordable city in the world. As of April 2010, the average two-level home in Vancouver sold for a record high of £987.500, compared with the Canadian average of £365.141. A factor explaining the high property prices may be policies by the Canadian government which permit snow washing, which allow foreigners to buy property in Canada while shielding their identities from tax authorities, making real estate transactions an effective way to conduct money laundering. 6. As other Canadian cities, the overall crime rate has been falling “dramatically” in the city. Vancouver’s burglary rate is particularly high, ranking among the highest for major North American cities, but even this dropped 10,5% between 2004 and 2005. For 2006, Metro Vancouver had the highest rate of gun- related violent crime of any major metropolitan region in Canada, with 45.3 violent offences involving guns for every 100.000 people in Metro Vancouver, above the national average of 27.5. A series of gang- related incidents in early 2009 escalated into what police have dubbed a gang war. 7. Vancouver is consistently named as one of the top five worldwide cities for liveability and quality of life, and the Economist Intelligence Unit acknowledged it as the first city ranked among the top-ten of the world’s most well-living cities for five consecutive years. Vancouver has hosted many international conferences and events, including the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics which were held in Vancouver. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the TED conference mad Vancouver its indefinite home. E. Pricey apartments may attract the corrupt. F. Immigration has led to diversity. G. Fewer thefts, but what about the shootings? H. Urban and rural sightseeing. I. The success of foreign species. Página de 41 76
