China par 3

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

At the end of the lesson: 

1. you will be able to explain why there is mass migration from the countryside to the towns and cities

2. you will be able to describe the change of the appearance of cities and towns

Language aims: 

A.You can use the words urbanization and  mechanization in a sentence.
B.You are able to explain what 'urban renewal' means
C. You can explain the term Rural-Urban migration.

§ 3: Migration and urbanization

1.What are these people doing?
 

2.Why are these people here?

3.Is it a good thing? 

Explain your answer. 

Write down and discuss!

 

Read § 3 

Write down the words you don't know.

Look them up! You may use your phone!

Both pictures show migrants. 

What is the difference?

Wealth gap in China

Causes: 
Push factors:
    1. Mechanization in agriculture
    2. Lower wages
    3. Undeveloped area's

Pull factors:

    1. Many jobs
    2. Higher wages
    3. Modern western lifestyle

Wealth gap in China

Effect
Rural- Urban migration:
61% is now living in the city.

Level of urbanization is increasing

Urbanization rate is high. 
2.42% increase.

Urbanization= verstedelijking

Rural-urban migration= van platteland naar de stad migreren

Effect: Urban villages

Chinese cities are changing fast due to urbanization 

traditional neighbourhoods are being demolished now many high-rise buildings.

A note!

Rural urban migration: migrating from countryside to the city.

Urbanization: rise in percentage of the population who live in cities.

Urbanization rate: the increase in the level of urbanization.

Ready? lets play 30 seconds with the definitions!

30 seconds

1.Take a card and set the timer for 30 seconds

2.Try to describe as many terms as you can to your opponent (tegenstander)

3.For every term that is guessed you are getting a point.

4.To make it more difficult, take a blank card and write down the terms yourself. Swap with a neighbour.

Homework 

Excercises 1, 2, 3 and 4 in your workbook

Challenge?

Find the urbanization rate of any country you like on:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/

Why would people move from countryside to big cities?

Can you explain the connection

between these maps?

The connection between the two maps is:

Now you are: 

1. able to explain why there is mass migration from the countryside to the towns and cities

2.  able to describe the change of the appearance of cities and towns

Language aims: 

A.Using the words urbanization and  mechanization in a sentence.
B.Able to explain what 'urban renewal' means
C. Able to explain the term Rural-Urban migration.

At the end of the lesson you:

-Why there is mass migration from the countryside to the towns and cities

-Why there is a floating population

-How the appearance of towns and cities has changed

Name a pushfactor of rural area's

Name a pull factor of urban area's

00:37

What is a slum?

01:20

Alley is

1. Weg
2. Straat
3. Steeg
4. Laan

02:45

What does the translation actually needs to be instead of 'under benoist'?

What term comes to mind when you think of Kowloon walled city?

Describe using
the word wealth gap

Hukou system

People in the countryside had to stay in the place where they were born otherwise they would lose the right to facilities and amenities such as education, housing and health care.

There were still many ‘illegal’ migrants (about 250 million!) due to the wealth gap between rural and urban areas floating population

Appearance

Chinese cities are changing fast due to urbanization traditional neighbourhoods are being demolished  now many high-rise buildings

Also, many urban villages:

- have been demolished and replaced with high rise buildings

- no longer have land for farming very high population density due to multi-storey buildings

-High land prices in centre high-rise building more profitable

Do exercises 6 to 9

Challenge? Do 10 instead of 8 and 9.