WHERE WE LIVE

PLACESPLACES CHANGESERVICES IN A CITY

PLACES• Villages: small places with few inhabitants, few services like a

square, a church, main street with shops and a town hall. Arable farming or livestock farming or in tourism.

• Towns and cities: large places with many inhabitants, many services like squares, parks, churches, a town hall, many shops. Variety of jobs: offices, banks, hospitals and factories.

PLACES CHANGEWHEN THE NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN A CITY GROWS…• HISTORIC CENTRE: OLDEST PART, NARROW STREETS. MAIN

SQUARE, TOWN HALL AND CHURCHES.• NEW PART: WIDE, STRAIGHT STREETS. LOTS OF FLATS, OFFICES

AND SHOPS.• OUTSKIRTS: LOTS OF SPACE, MORE FLATS, OFFICES, SHOPS.

FACTORIES AND SOMETIMES AIRPORTS.

SERVICES IN A CITY• VISIBLE SERVICES: SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, LIBRARIES,

ZEBRA CROSSINGS, TELEPHONE BOXES…• UNDERGROUND SERVICES: WATER PIPES, GAS PIPES,

ELECTRICITY CABLES, SEWER PIPES, METRO TRAINS…

MAPS• SIMBOLS IN A MAP: