Unit 7: World Population writing

AIMS:• Help students compare the figures in the chart and give their comments... Is the world population distributed evenly.. • Pre- writing Look at the chart carefully and work in pairs

AIMS:

• Help students compare the figures in the chart and give their comments

Warm up

Answer the following questions:

1 What continent has the most people?

2 What continent has the least people?

3 Is the world population distributed evenly?

• Pre- writing

Look at the chart carefully and work in pairs.

South Asia

32 %

East Asia

Europe

15 %

Africa

11 %

Latin America 8%

Northern America 6%

O ce an ia

2 %

•Students can use some structures: comparative, superlative…

Examples:

- The population of Europe is higher than the

population of Africa.

- The South Asia has the largest population.

While –writing

it can be seen that distributed unevenly account for … per cent more than double the population of half as much as / nearly half of

rank first / last

-Make topic sentence:

The world population is not distributed evenly.

-Have students work in groups of four.

Post writing

• Have students exchange their writings

• Call on two students to write down their friends’ writings on the board

• Make necessary comments and

corrections