Английский язык 11 класс (Урок№32 - Shanty Towns.)

Английский язык 11 класс Урок№32 - Shanty Towns. We’ll discuss the problem of urbanisation in the developing world We’ll know the origin of the problem. We’ll learn how people live in slums and what prospects they have We’ll use the new words in your own speech. A shanty town or slum is an overcrowded community of rough huts without access to basic amenities. A vast number of people come to cities to escape poverty and conflict in their native land. When they fail the attempts of finding decent and affordable housing, they come to shanty towns. The main characteristics of slums are: unemployment, malnutrition, absence of sanitation facilities, high crime rate. International agencies try to help the process of urbanisation in the developing world, for instance, offer slums dwellers loans to set up business.