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成都书之香教育 Page PAGE 10 of NUMPAGES 10 展望未来教材3 Unit 1- Unit 6 Unit 1 Patterns of lifeChanges2.Listen and check your answers to Exercise 1.Docklands is an area in the east of London, along the River Thames, where boats used to come in and dock. In the last century and the first half of this century, the area was very busy; there were lots of ships coming in, and lots of work for the people who lived there.But things changed in the 1950s and 60s:the docks closed and industries moved out. Then, in the 1980s there was another great change: new buildings went up in Docklands, and new companies moved in.9.Listen to interview with Terry Ward,who has worked in the Docklands area for many years.1.Make notes about Docklands now, using these headings in your students book. The kinds of people and the, the jobs that they used to do in,in the last century in the docks were all relevant to Docklands itself and the industries which were joined to it.Today, of course, the people are completely different and there are a lot of professional people now, skilled accountants, doctors, lawyers. Theyre the kind of people who would have a town house and then would want to get away to the country, somewhere in the countryside.A lot of the flats and houses that have been purchased in the docks, well at the weekends theyre empty. You dont see them. Theyre only used during the week when the people are working.Therefore they dont really constitute a community, because at the weekend, when the social life used to be at its most active. now it tends to sink and go quiet.And an awful lot of the new docks estates and areas are deserted at weekends.And youve got nothing any more. In fact its like a ghost town.When Docklands was really thriving many years ago and they,they used to have whole estates and rows and streets of houseswhich were all dockers or related industries,all the people lived there, they had a very close-knit community spirit.And