Разработка урока "Shanty towns"

Look at the picture. How can these words and phrases be related to it?

Overcrowded community * basic services * illegal * medical care * unemployment * poverty * clean water * disease * crime * legal ownership

Urbanisation in the Developing World

Shanty towns

Overcrowded communities also known as squatter settlements, these communities' impoverished residents build their homes from whatever improvised building materials they can find.

The World Map of overcrowded communities

According to UN-Habitat , around 33% of the urban population in the developing world , or about 863 million people, lived in slums.

The high level of poverty often leads to organized crime and violence. The local authorities have tried to criminalize people living there. They always have represented this area as a drug area, as an arms-dealing area .

The world's largest slum city is in Mexico City, Mexico – 4 Million

Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan - 2.4 million

Orangi is Asia's largest slum and second largest slum in the World sprawls over 8,000 acres . Today, Orangi's population is believed to have reached around 2.4 million although no one knows the exact figure since Pakistan's last national census was held in 1998.

Dharavi, Mumbai, India – 1,5 Million  

Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. home to between roughly 700,000 to about 1,5 million people, Dharavi is currently the second-largest slum in the continent of Asia and the third-largest slum in the world. Dharavi is also one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.

Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya –  1 Million

Kibera slum in Nairobi , Kenya , the second largest slum in Africa and third largest in the world.

Makoko – One of the oldest slums in Nigeria, was originally a fishing village settlement, built on stilts on a lagoon. It developed into a slum and became home to about a hundred thousand people in Lagos .

Substandard housing in a slum near Jakarta , Indonesia in the 2000s.

Europe's largest illegal settlement lies just outside the Spanish capital, Madrid. A Cañada Real is now home to over 40,000 people.

Slums of Manila – Philippines

There are an estimated 4 million slum dwellers living in Manila as of 2014. The gap is growing rapidly between the rich and the poor in The Philippines. Pollution levels are at a disturbing high in the slums of Manila.

Thousands of Filipinos live among the dead in Manila cemetery slums . Stone or marble sarcophaguses inside the mausoleums became beds, while other mausoleums became small shops or bars. An estimated 6,000 people now call the place home. Burial ground develops its own economy, opening stores, restaurants and even an Internet cafe in the mausoleums.

Match the words with their meanings

1. something that makes it comfortable or enjoyable to live

or work somewhere

2. having no value

a) worthless

b) dweller

3. inexpensive/ cheap enough for ordinary people to have

c) amenity

4. someone who lives in a particular type of place

5. physical condition caused by poor eating habits or lack of food

d) permanent

e) loan

6. lasting forever

f) vast

7. sums of borrowed money which must be paid back

g) decent

8. extremely large

h) sanitation

9. at an acceptable level/ good enough

i) malnutrition

10. processes relating to people's health, especially the systems

that supply water and deal with human waste

j) affordable

a) Worthless - бесценный

b) Dweller - обитатель, жилец

c) Amenity - жизненные удобства

d) Permanent - постоянный

e) Loan - кредит, ссуда

f) Vast - огромный, громадный

g) Decent - приемлемый

h) Sanitation - санитария

i) Malnutrition - недоедание

j) Affordable допустимый, возможный

refuse – отбросы, мусор

virtually – фактически, по сути

sewers – сточная труба

squalo r - грязь

contaminated – загрязнённый, заражённый

causey – небольшая дамба, гать

stench – зловоние

overpowering – неодолимый, подавляющий

rife – обычный, частый

appalling – ужасный, потрясающий

A

B

1 the distance of Kibera from the centre of the Kenyan

capital of Nairobi, in kilometers

A 20

B 1

2 the area of Kibera, in square kilometers

C85

3 the population of Kibera

D5

4 the percentage of child death under the age of 5

5 the percentage of adult population that is HIV

E35

(human immunodeficiency virus)positive

F 2,5

6 the number of rooms in the family flat

G60

7 the money the average family lives on per day, in pence

H between 750.000 and 1.000.000