Unit 7: World Population Listening

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand about world population and improve knowledge through tasks.. According to the expert, the population of the w

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Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION

Lesson : Listening

I Aim: Developing listening skill

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students

will be able to understand about world

population and improve knowledge through

tasks.

III Materials: Textbook, blackboard,

cassette-player , CD,

IV Anticipated proplems: Students may find it

difficult to understand words and content of the lesson.

V Procedure:

Year Population

10.000 B C 1750

1850 1950 1985 2000

Warm up

10 million

625 million

1300 million

2510 million

4760 million 6.6 billion

1 How fast did the population increase ?

2 Do you think that our world is overpopulation?

 What are the bad aspects of the

overpopulation?

 What are the solutions to the problems?

Listen to the tape (once)

New words

 Expert

 Death rate

 Rank (n)

 Generation (n)

 Illiteracy (n)

 Medical care

 Punishment policy

- Listen to the tape (twice)

Task 1: choose the best answer A, B, C,

D for the following statements and question

1. The expert says that there are ………

people in the world today.

A. Over 6.7 billion C about 6.7 million

C 6.7 billion D 6.6 billion

2 According to the expert, the population of the world

increases by……… a year.

A. 66 million C 76 billion

B About 66 million D about 76 million

A

D

3 According to the expert, the area that has the highest population growth rate is………

4 Scientists say that the main reason for population

explosion is………

A death rates C an increase in death rates

B Birth rates D a decrease in death rates

5 Which of the following problems is NOT mentioned by the speaker?

A literacy B lack of hospitals and school

D

A

C

6 Which of the following solutions is NOT mentioned by the speaker ?

A providing safe, inexpensive birth control methods.

B educating people

C Advising people to use birth control methods

D Atrictly implementing a family planning policy

C

Task 2: Listen again and answer the following questions.

1 According to experts, what will the population of the world

be by the year 2015 ?

2 What did the expert say about the population growth rate

in some parts of the world ?

3 According to the expert, what is the reason for a fall in the death rates ?

According to experts, by the year 2015, the population of the world will be over 7 billion

He said that the population growth rates in some parts of the world are not the same The population grows more

quickly in some parts of the world than others

According to experts, the reason for the fall in

the death rates is the improvement of puplic

4 According to the expert, what problems does population explosion cause to the world, particularly to developing

countries ?

5, How many solutions did the expert offer and what are they ?

Shortage of food, lack of hospitals and schools, illiteracy, and poor living conditions

The expert offered 4 solutions They are to educate

people and make them aware of the danger of having

more children, to provide safe, inexpensive birth control method, to trictly implement a family planning policy, and

to exercise strict and fair reward and punishment

policies

 After reading : Listen again

- Work in groups and summarise the main ideas of the passage.

- Homework:

- Prepare: Speaking

- Do exercises

The end