The worlds population

pulation is too large. The answers are: small, slowly, quickly, faster, more, smaller, fewer, healthier

　VI. Look and ask

　　Ask the students to look at the list of cards and let the students ask and answer in Pairs. For example: A: How much is the car? or What’s the price of the car? or How much does the car cost? B: It’s… Then discuss about why your car is the best.

　VII. Presentation

　　Ask the students: Do you like travelling in your holiday, let the students discuss. Then tell the students we'll learn something about Sam, ask the questions:

　　1. Which countries would he travel to for holiday?

　　2. Was his plan very good?

　　Listen to the tape and answer the questions. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Explain some language Points:

　　1. travel to…

　　Last year Sam travelled to Beijing.

　　2. become interested in:

　　He became interested in science when he was eight years old.

　　3. be busy doing something:

　　The students are busy reading English now.

　VIII. Checkpoint 13

　　Go through Checkpoint 13 and make sure the students can understand the grammar and useful expressions.

　IX. Workbook

　　Do Exercises 2 and 3, ask the students to do them in pairs.

　　Do Exercise 4. The answers are: 1. would go, would get 2 would be, would be, said, would be, received 3 decided, didn't know, would teach, said, would leave, wouldn't be 4 was, found, would use, down loaded, made

　　Exercises in class

　　Rewrite the sentences.

　　1. What’s the population of the world?

　　_________ _________ people _________ _________ in the world?

　　2. My home is twenty minutes on foot.

　　It __________________ 20 minutes to go home.

　　3. I forgot everything, so did Jim.

　　________I ________ Jim could ________ everything.

　　4. He was late for school, I was late, too.

　　He was late for school, I ________ ________ ________, ________.

　X. Homework

　　1. Revise the whole unit.

　　2. Use the useful expressions to make up a story.

　　3. Finish off the exercises in the workbook.

探究活动

采访

　　将学生分成两人一组。其中一人是《中学生报》记者，另一人是人口问题专家，小记者和人口问题专家分别根据课文内容就世界人口问题进行准备。然后进行问答练习，再互换角色。

Read World Population

　　根据所提供的2001年7月份的世界人口数量统计，制作成四组投影或挂图。进行活动时，将其展示在黑板上。教师将学生分成四组，让每组学生先看一幅投影或挂图，准备快速地读出每个国家的人口数量。然后，开始比赛，比赛以组为单位进行。每组学生一个接一个地读出该组的数字，以读得时间最短、出错率最少的组为胜。

 

World Population 6,157,400,560 (July 2001 est)

 Afganistan
 26,813,057
 
 
 Albania
 3,510,484
 
 
 Algeria
 31,736,053
 
 
 Angola
 10,366,031
 
 
 Argentina
 37,384,816
 
 
 Armenia
 3,336,100
 
 
 Australia
 19,357,594
 
 
 Austria
 8,150,835
 
 
 Belgium
 10,258,762
 
 
 Bolivia
 8,300,463
 
 
 Brazil
 174,468,575
 
 
 Bulgaria
 7,707,495
 
 
 Burma
 41,994,678
 
 
 Cambodia
 12,491,501
 
 
 Camaroon
 15,803,220
 
 
 Canada
 31,592,805
 
 
 Chad
 8,707,078
 
 
 Chilie
 15,328,467
 
 
 China
 1,273,111,290
 
 
 Colombia
 40,349,388
 
 
 Costa Rica
 3,773,057
 
 
 Croatia
 4,334,142
 
 
 Cuba
 11,184,023
 
 
 Czech Republic
 10,264,212
 
 
 Denmark
 5,352,815
 
 
 Dominican Republic
 8,581,477
 
 
 Ecuador
 13,183,978
 
 
 Egypt
 69,536,644
 
 
 El Salvador
 6,237,662
 
 
 Ethiopia
 65,891,874
 
 
 Finland
 5,175,783
 
 
 France
 59,551,227
 
 
 Georgia
 4,989,285
 
 
 Germany
 83,029,536
 
 
 Ghana
 19,894,014
 
 
 Greece
 10,623,835
 
 
 Guatemala
 12,974,361
 
 
 Guinea
 7,613,870
 
 
 Honduras
 6,406,052
 
 
 Hong Kong
 7, 210

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