文档介绍：Unit Four Moving from Detroit to Hobbs
New Century English, Book I
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Background Information
1. Detroit
Detroit is the largest city in Michigan. The Detroit area is the world’s foremost automobile manufacturing center, thus giving Detroit its nickname the Motor City, and is one of the nation’s leading industrial centers.
Detroit has a highly specialized manufacturing economy, producing automobiles and many products associated with the automobile industry.
Background Information
In addition to automobiles, the city’s numerous manufactures include steel, metal products, machine tools, chemicals, office machines and pharmaceuticals.
This area contains the international headquarters of such automobile manufacturers as General Motors Corporation, Ford pany and Chrysler Corporation; these have attracted many service-oriented industries in research, design, advertising, public relations, accounting and finance.
Background Information
2. Hobbs
Hobbs is a city in southeastern New Mexico, ., founded by James Issac Hobbs in 1907. It became a booming town after the discovery of oil and natural gas in 1928.
Background Information
It expanded from a settlement of 598 (1930 census) to e the state’s petroleum centre with a population exceeding 25,000. Hobbs serves as a supply, shipping, and trading point for the oil-drilling industry and for the surrounding cattle ranches and artesian-irrigated farmland.
Do you like to live in a big city or in a small town? Why?
Discussion
Some ideas
Crowd, noise, pollution, tension
Leisure, peaceful life
Shopping and entertainment facilities
Questions
What does “a foreign land” mean?
What does the last sentence mean?
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, and had lived there all of my life until I married and moved with my husband to Hobbs, New Mexico. The morning that my parents took us to the airport, they cried as if I were leaving the country and moving to a foreign land. Although I felt a bit anxious,