18/1/2010 9:00 11:30

1. 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.
2. The furniture has been rearranged.
   The business is ticking on.(grow up)
   picking up(not raise up)
   slowing down
3. 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
4. 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
5. There is peace and harmony between the various ethnic groups.
   ethnicity
   multi -> USA ai(pronunciation)
   multi: storey car park
6. racial, cultural, lingual, religious ->society country
   cosmopolitan
7. 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