Unit 13 The World’s Population

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Teaching Aims:

1. Let the SS master the Future-in-the Past Tense and useful expressions

2. Learn how to say the numbers.

3. Through reading the text, let the Ss understand the necessaries and importance of realizing Family Planning.

Lesson 49.

Properties: Recorder, overhead projector; pictures and some real objects

Language focus:

1. population, million, billion, increase, grow, What’s the population of Germany?

2. Some new words and Useful expressions:

What’s the population of Beijing?

The population of Beijing is 20million.

If and whether;

Increase by and increase to;

Large and small population;

I wonder=want to know, if/ whether…?

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Showing aims:

1. Let the SS say the numbers.

2. Learn some new words and useful expressions.

Ⅱ. Revision

1.Check homework.

Revise the numbers between 1 and 100.

Ⅲ Presentation

Use flashcards to revise: one hundred, present a thousand in the same way. Then present ten thousand/ a hundred thousand/ a million and a billion.

Give the SS plenty of practice in reading these numbers. Point out the differences between English and Chinese for 10 000 and 100 000.

Ⅳ.Drill

Part 1.

Get the SS to listen to the tape, try to find the answers.

Play the tape for the class to listen and repeat themselves. Write numbers on the blackboard, to give the SS more practice in saying the numbers. Check the answers with the whole class. Make sure they can read correctly. See if the SS can make sentences with them. Play the tape again for the Ss to repeat.

Ask the students to say some numbers in pairs, and share with the class.

Ⅴ.Read and say:

Just get the SS to understand the dialogue, do not pay more attention to the new knowledge. Look at the books, read the instruction with the whole class.

.Practise:

Part 3. Discuss the model with the S as an example, then let the Ss work on their own, write down the answers in their exercise books. Encourage the SS to make a new dialogue in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class.

Using a map of the world, go through contents of the table. Learn the meaning of population.

For example:

1. Our city has a population of two billion.

2. What’s the population of Tianjin?

3. China has the largest population of the world.

Get the Ss to practise it pairs.

Ⅳ. Workbook:

1. Do Exx 1 orally in pairs. Have the Ss ask and answer in pairs. Check the answers with the whole class.

2. Do Exx 2 in the exercise books. Have the ss do it by themselves, then discuss in pairs.

3. Ex 3. Ask the ss to do it together.

Summary.

Homework:

Finish the exercises in the workbook..

Make up a new dialogue about the satellites.

Ask the Ss to write a passage about the problem about the growing population.

Exercise in class

Lesson 50;

Properties: Recorder, overhead projector; pictures and some real objects

Language focus:

Useful expressions: room, hour after hour.

Multiple… by… : 5 multiplied by 4 equals 20.

Challenge: He gave me a challenge and I accepted it.

I have challenged him.

At the beginning of, from beginning to end.

Hardly--- nearly;

Hour after hour;

Grow and increase:

Room, space and place;

Over more than;

Better and better;

By the time… had done, will have done;

Live in / stand in/ on;

Prefer to … rather than…

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Showing aims:

1. Master some useful expressions and understand some difficult sentences..

2. Read the passage, under the text and try to do some reading comprehension.

3. Do some reading comprehension.

4. Revise different verb tenses.

Ⅱ. Revision:

1.Check homework.

Revise Lesson 49. Practise the numbers in front of the class. Then give them a dictation: 1. 173 2. 6854 3. 17 000 4. 456789 5. 37865231 6. 1.3billion. Finally, check the answers in class.

Revise the Passive Voice in the Past Tense. Have the Ss make sentences in groups of four, then get some groups to give out their ideas.

Ⅲ. Leading in:

Ask : Do you know what the population of China or any other country in the world is? Then say:

Today we’re going to read about the worls’s population. The world’s population is growing very fast. It is a big and serious problem. Can you tell us the reason? Let the SS discuss and help them answer with: “ There is enough food, work for too many people. There aren’t enough houses…”

Get the SS to read the question at the top of the page, get them to know very clearly, then ask them to read the passage quickly. And answer the question.

Ⅳ. Read:

Speech cassette. Play the tape for the Ss to listen and try to find the answers to the questions. Check the answers with the class.

Books open. Get the Ss to read the passage in pairs. Give them a few minutes for them to discuss, then ask some of the SS to give their reports to share with the class.

Ⅵ. Practice:

Have the ss know a little more knowledge about the world’s population.

The world’s population is now 60 billion. It’s likely to reach 10 billion by the middle of the 21st century. The Third World population is rising rapidly, straining health and education systems, hitting the environment, causing explosive urban growth and complicating food supply. So population has become a serious problem. The reading passage in this lesson aims the to draw the SS concern about this great world problem.

Then play the tape again for the Ss to repeat.

Ask the SS to listen carefully. Then stop the tape while the SS are listening, and ask them to go on reading. It can test the SS’ abilities to follow the passage as it is read on the tape.

Read the passage individually and help them to retell the story.

Language Focus:

Get the SS to know how to use the following words and expressions:

1. room: I’m afraid, there is no room( space) for us on the bus.

This big bag takes up too much room.

Let me make room for our teacher.

2. hour after hour:

The clock goes on striking hour after hour.

Peter stayed in bed day after day.

Year after year went by, she still didn’t receive her son’s news.

Ⅶ.Workbook:

Do Exx 2 orally in class. Write down the answers as quickly as they can. Have the Ss read the dialogue in pairs, then check in class. And write down their own ideas in the exercise books.

The answers are about, not, Multiple by, Hour after hour, fast, developing , problem, developed, slow down;

Do Ex 3. in class. The answers are: 1. hardly. 2. at the beginning of 3. path 4. worth 5. Beg your pardon.

Ⅷ. Summary.

Homework:

Finish off the exercises in the workbook..

Write a short passage about man-made satellites

Exercises in class:

Write a shout passage about the world’s population.

1. 人口问题是世界上最大的问题之一;

2. 人口增长非常快

3. 600年后,地球上将只有立足之地了

4. 中国人口众多;

5. 如果每个家庭只生一个孩子,问题就会变得好多了。

Lesson 51。

Properties: Recorder, overhead projector; pictures and some real objects

Language focus:

Useful expressions:

Prefer to do sth; rather than do sth;

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Showing aims:

1.Master some useful expressions.

2. Revise the distance and dialogues.

3. Review the comparative forms of adjectives.

4. Learn the Future-in- the Past tense.

Ⅱ. Revision:

1.Check homework;

2.Revise the passage of Lesson 50. First get the Ss to ask and answer some questions about the passage, see if they can understand the passage correctly. Get one of them to retell it. Try to use the drills freely:

Have the SS to make some sentences to master the numbers. Make up some sentences.

Ask some SS to read their sentences. Then ask some of them to read them out to the SS.

Ⅲ. Leading in:

Ask : As you know. People’s life is getting better and better, more and more people want to buy cars. If you have much more money, you’ll buy a car. Ask : Do you think cars will become cheaper when more people buy cars? Let the SS discuss the question then ask them:

Get the SS to look at Ex1. Tell the Ss to read the questions and find the answers. Help them understand the exercise, then get the SS to ask and answer in pairs. Finally, check the answers with the whole class.

Ⅳ.Read and act:

Let the SS read the dialogue quickly and find the answer to the question. Then check the answer with the Ss. Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat.

Explain:

1. prefer to do something… rather than do something

I prefer to stay at home rather than do something.

2. agree with: They didn’t agree with each other.

3. Be worth doing: The book is worth 100 yuan

It is worth reading the book.

Then let the SS read and act it out.

Ⅴ. Grammar Teaching:

Make up more sentences, such as:

I don’t know if he will come back next week.

I didn’t know if he would come back the next week.

Point out the Future-in the Past tense in the object clause of these sentences, because the action would happen from a given past time mentioned in the main clause. Let the SS see grammar in the Appendix of the SS’ books.

Do some practice:

1. I didn’t know if she would invite me to her birthday party.

2. He didn’t tell me when he would come back.

3. She didn’t say where she would go.

4. We never know that population would become a big problem.

Ⅵ. Practice:

Get the SS to make up sentences using the words in the box. Do Ex 3. then let the SS work in pairs to make up sentences. Collect some examples from the whole class.

Workbook:

1. Do Exx 2 orally with the whole class. Discuss the answers with the partner, and finish the dialogue. Have two students read the dialogue in pairs, then check the answers in class.

The answers are:

Did…go; went; Did… buy; bought; were, found; hate, moved; know; was, was…crying; found.

Ⅹ. Summary.

Homework:

Finish the exercises in the workbook..

Exercises in class:

Rewrite the sentences using the Future-in the Past Tense.

1. I don’t know if they will make friends with me.

2. Peter asks Betty when she will decide to stop drinking.

3. Mary says that she will take good care of the baby.

4. Lily hopes that you will catch up with the class.

5. We can’t find out if the policeman will find him.

Lesson 52.

Properties: Recorder, overhead projector; pictures and some real objects

Language focus:

Checkpoint 13

Teaching Procedures:

Ⅰ. Showing aims:

1. Train the SS’ listening ability.

2.Revise all the contents of Unit 7-13

3.To train their listening and writing abilities.

4.Go through Checkpoint13

5.Write a short passage to train the SS’ writing abilities.

Ⅱ. Revision:

1.Check homework.

2. Revise Choose some useful sentences from the Ss’ homework and read them to class, then do more oral practice using the Future-in the – Past tense. Have the Ss make sentences using the Future-in the – Past tense. Get the ss to discuss in groups. Make sure the Ss can use the Future-in the – Past tense.

Ⅲ.Leading in:

Say: Today we are going to hear about different languages in the world, and have the SS look at Ex 1 in the workbook.. Read all the questions first, then read the numbers aloud. Try to guess the answers before listening.

Ⅳ.Listening

Listening cassette. Go through the Ex1 in WB with the Ss. Play the tape for the ss to listen and finish Ex 1 in WB . Play the tape again, Get the SS to check their answers. Then check with the whole class. Make sure that they can understand.

The answers are: 1.A 2. B; 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. A.

Ⅴ.Read and act

Let the SS open the books and look at the diagram in Ex 2 and3. more carefully and answer the questions. Then check the answers with the SS. Play the tape for the sS to listen and repeat, then read it in pairs. Explain some new words. Ask the SS to practise this dialogue in pairs without looking at the books.

Ⅵ. Look and ask:

Ask the SS to look at the list of the carfs and let the Ss ask and answer in pairs. For example:

A: How much is the car?/ What’s the price of the car?/ How much does the car cost?

B: It’s…

Then discuss about the best.

Part 3. Get the SS to write down their answers into the table and report to the class. Get the SS to discuss it.

Ⅶ. Read:

Ask the SS: Do you like traveling in your holiday? Let the S discuss, then tell them that we’re going to learn about Sam. Ask the question:

1. Which countries would he travel to for his holiday?

2. Was his plan very good?

Get the SS go through Part 4. and then, help them to repeat it in pairs. Ask the Ss to shorten the passage in four sentences.

Listen to the tape and answer the questions. Play the tape for the Ss to listen and repeat. Explain:

1. travel to… Last year Sam traveled to Beijing.

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

3. be busy doing sth:

The students are busy reading now.

Ⅷ. Checkpoint 13

Go through Checkpoint13 with the Ss. Solve any problems that the Ss may still have. Make sentences with the useful expressions, and make sure that the Ss can use them freely. Get the Ss to go over the grammar notes.Workbook:

Do Exx 3 orally in class. Do it in Ex book. Pay attention to the stress.

Do Ex 4 in class. 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

Ⅹ.Summary.

Homework:

Finish off the exercises in the workbook..

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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.

______ Jim _______ I could _______ everything.

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

He was late for school. I ____ _____ ,______ _______.