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suburbsachievement

railbillion

irregular past tense

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Level 6 Unit 7 Lesson 4

Around the world

There once was a girl from New YorkWho couldn't find any good pork.She got on a plane,And flew straight to Spain,Where she ate all the pork with a fork.

word work

era personShe danced every day, so she decided to become a professional dancer.

ista personShe loved to play the piano, so she became a concert pianist.

ora personHe loved to act, so he became a famous actor.

Suffixes

1. A person who likes to act should be an . . .
2. A person who likes to take photographs should be a . . .
3. A person who likes to play the piano should be a . . .
4. A person who likes to dance should be a . . .
5. A person who likes to sing should be a . . .

Suffixes

vocabulary

There are thousands of miles of rails running across the country.

rail - the metal bars that hold the train

After they had children, the family moved to the suburbs and got a dog.

suburbs - a residential area very close to a main city

A billion dollars does not fit into this briefcase.

billion - 1,000,000,000

Getting to the top of the mountain was a huge achievement.

achievement - something difficult that you have done successfully

• billion!
• thousand.
• hundred.
• blazilion.
• brilldon.

• suburbs
• exterior
• urban
• interior

• rails.
• rials.
• ribbons.
• papers.
• lairs.

verify

• achievement
• ancestor
• arrangement
• argument
• annoyance

4. My biggest is winning the race.

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3. The train rides along two parallel

2. I want more than a million dollars, I want a

1. My parents moved to the to get a bigger house.

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1. Which do you think is more interesting, a city or a suburb?
2. Which is more money, a million dollars or a billion dollars?
3. What is stronger, a rail or a ribbon?

Compare

What do you think is man's biggest achievement?

Opinion

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Prereading

The subway, sometimes called the metro, underground, tube, or train, is a rapid transit system used to help people get around the city. The train runs on two rails, and the third rail provides electricity to the train. Within the city, subways usually travel underground and can pass under rivers and highways. Sometimes, the trains come above ground for short distances. In some cities, like Chicago, almost the entire system is above the streets on elevated tracks.

People travel through the tunnels to get to their subway train.

The first subway system in the world was built in London and opened on January 10, 1863. The line used steam engines and traveled only 6 kilometers through the center of the city. Three years later, the city began to build the tunnels that are still used on "the tube" today. The trains helped thousands of people travel to work in the city quickly and conveniently. Before the subway, cities were very crowded with workers. After they built the subways, people could live in the suburbs and commute to work on the train.

Other cities around the world soon built their own underground rail systems. There are 178 different metro systems in the world. Many of them run 24 hours a day, providing citizens with a quick, safe, and reliable way to travel. Sometimes the maps look disorganized because the subway grew along with the city. Currently, the Shanghai Metro is the world’s longest metro system, with 803 kilometers of tracks. This metro system provides 2.83 billion rides through the city every year.

The metro system truly is an achievement that has changed the way our cities work. Subways unify the people who live in an area and allow them to travel everywhere in the city. Engineers had to figure out how to build large, strong tunnels under the city streets without running into the water lines, electric lines, sewers, and cables. People rely on these metro lines to get to work every day, so they must be kept in good condition and be sure to run every day without stopping.

1. The subway is a transporation system in the air.
2. Most subways have three rails.
3. Subways systems stayed the same size while the cities grew.
4. Subways bring people in a city together.

True or False

Discuss

Grammar

Past Tensean action completed in the pastThe bird flew across the sky.

come - camebuild - builthave - hadrun - raneat - ate

Irregular Past Tense

Past Tensean action completed in the pastThe bird flew across the sky.

1. The food (come) late for the party.
2. The woman (build) her own house.
3. The boy (have) a new toy from Japan.
4. The cat (run) faster than the dog.
5. I (eat) a bowl of ice cream yesterday.

Irregular Past Tense

I ate pizza every day for a week!

Irregular Past Tense

wrap up

How would our world be different without a subway system?

Think

Think about some other things that could happen. Write another paragraph of rising action.

You are going to write a narrative adventure story.

Extension

Readingexpositorydetails

Word Worksuffixes:ist, er, nor

Grammarirregular past tense

Vocabularyrail, suburbs, billion, achievement

Poemrhythm

Goodbye!