English for slow business

TEXT 1. READING: Meet the couple who quit citylife for vanlife. 1. Do you prefer city life or country life? 2. What do you think of living on the road? Read the text and answer: VOCABULARY: Adapted text from: Meet the couple who quit Citylife for Vanlife. Could you swap your bed, job, privacy – and shower – to live on the road? Neelam Tailor HuffPost    Becky Wixon, 25, and Simone Picknett, 27 laugh as they describe a #vanlife  image on Instagram – a picture-perfect lifestyle far from reality. They make fun of the glamorous stereotype of the vanlife movement on social media. It’s a lifestyle that’s  more attainable , they argue. “You can just buy a van and put a mattress in it and you can be doing your own van life. It doesn’t need to be this luxurious thing,” explains Wixon. “I think a lot of people do it because they want to get Instagram-famous. We did it because we wanted our ti

TOWNS Living in a tiny apartment in Tokio.   VOCABULARY ioga mat              challenging                     rewarding                    selective         work out                  chopping board               clothes line       TRUE OR FALSE 1. Emma is from EEUU.________ 2. She lives in Tokyo______ 3. Her flat is about 20m2 ____________ 4. You have to be very selective with what you have. _______ 5. The cutting spacde is very small in kitchens _______ 6. People in Japan normally have very big eating tables _________ 7. There is no  WC in the bathroom _______ 8. She feels comfortable in her tiny flat. ________ CROSS OUT THE ONES THAT EMMA DOES NOT SAY.  1. What are the advantages of living in a tiny flat? a. it helps your creativity         b. cleaning is easier           c. you can live alone 2. What are the disadvantages? a. ther is no place for dancing     b. you cannot have big dinner parties.        c. friends cannot sleep o