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- Work Advantage
It’s a fairly easy job. However, the hours are good. And the good thing is that I always have the weekend off. It’s quite well paid. It’s much less difficult.
Disadvantage:
Sometimes it’s very boring. She has to work swing shift. She doesn’t have a lot of time off. And what’s more, it’s not well paid. It’s harder than being a bank employee. - The furniture has been rearranged.
The business is ticking on.(grow up)
picking up(not raise up)
slowing down - What are the important landmarks?
All the buildings look similar(appear).
They have been destroyed and replaced by modern hight-rise developments.
preserve
They give a special character to a city.
uniform character
verb: unify noun: uniformity
fundamental differences
landscape -> physical, natural <-> artifical, man-made
human landscape
man-made landscape - Singapore has been beautified
1819 before pirates
1959 chief minister
1965 minster(self)
statue Stamford Raffles
Orchard farmers
dhobi: driver
The landscape has been transformed vices.
opium - There is peace and harmony between the various ethnic groups.
ethnicity
multi -> USA ai(pronunciation)
multi: storey car park - racial, cultural, lingual, religious ->society country
cosmopolitan - 17 islands 52
There has been a lot of land reclamation in S’pore.
tear down(torn down)
The lower rise buildiness have been torn down and replaced with moder high rise developments.
Kampongs
hamlets: small villege
villo(s)
sudden influx
tourists/visitors
residents/ citizers