unit 7: world population

By the year 2010, the population of the world is expected to be 7 billion.. Discuss with a partner and find out five world largest countries in population.. While you listen You will he

Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION

A READING

Before you read

Work in pairs.Ask and answer the following

questions.

1.Where can you find these scenes?

2.What does each of the pictures tell you?

3.Do you think that the larger in population a

country is, the stonger it is?Why/Why not?

NEW WORDS:

tài nguyên

10 birth-control (n) ['bə:θkən'troul]kən'troul] : phương pháp

hạn chế sinh đẻ; sự sinh đẻ có kế hoạch

11 method (n) ['meθkən'troul]əd] : phương pháp, cách thức

12 growth (n) [grouθkən'troul]] : sự phát triển, sự gia tăng

13 decrease (n) ['di:kri:s] : sự giảm đi, sự giảm sút

14 (v) : giảm bớt, làm suy giảm

15 Increase (n) ['inkri:s] :sự tăng, sự tăng thêm

16 (v) : tăng lên, tăng thêm,

lớn thêm

While you read

• Task 1 The words in the box all appear in

this passage Fill each blank with a suitable word (Change the form of the word and use the dictionary when necessary.)

• 1. Although most journalists studied

journalism in college, some older writers never attended a university.

salt water to fresh water?

limit figures method although

control increase international resources

• 3.The number of injuries from automobile

short test Students must turn in their paper

at the end of 20 minutes.

organization.

Task 2 Answer the questions on the

passage.

10,000 B.C.,1750,1850,1950,1985, and

2000?

have by the year 2015?

support its population?

a lot of chidren?

size of their families?

• 1 The population of the world in 10,000 B.C

was 10 million, in 1750 it was 625 million, in

1850 was 1,300 million, in 1950 it was 2,510

million, in 1985 it was 4,760 million , in 2000 it was 6,6 billion

• 2 By the year 2010, the population of the world

is expected to be 7 billion

• 3 Some scientists say it can , but others say it can’t

• 4 No, they don’t.

• 5 Because they know of no safe way to have

fewer children

After you read

• Work in pairs Discuss with a partner and find out five world largest countries in population Say where they are and which is the richest

and which is the poorest country

C Listening

Before you listen

nước phát triển

sự tốt hơn

• Work in pairs Discuss the following questions.

While you listen

You will hear Dr.Brown, a world population

expert, talk about the world population Listen

to the interview and do the tastk that follow.

Task 1 Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D the

following statements and questions

the world today

2 According to the expert, the population of the world

increases by a year.

3 According to the expert, the area that has the highest

population growth rate is .

4 Scientests say that the main reason for population

explosion

is _.

5 Which of the following problems 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 strictly implementing a family planning policy.

Task 2

population of the world is will be over 7 billion

parts of the world are not the same.The population grows more quickly in some parts of the world than others.

the death rates is the improvement of public health services and medical care

world,particularly to developing countries are

shortage of foods,lack of hospitals and

schools,illiteracy,and poor living conditions.

people and make them aware of the danger of

having more children,to provide safe,inexpensive

birth_control methods,to strictly implement a

family planning policy,and to exercise strict and

fair reward and punishment policies

Tape script

gentlemen.In our program tonight we are

privileged to have Dr.Brown, could you tell the

audience something about the world population?

the world today,and the total is increasing at the rate of about 76 million a year.Eperts at the

United Nations calculated that the population of the world could be over 7 billion by the year

2010.

same rate of population growth?

more qiuckly in some parts of the world than

others.Latin America first,Africa ranks

second,and Asia ranks third

main reason for the population explosion?

• Expert: Well, I think the main reason is a fall in the

death rates.This is due to the improvement of public health services and medical care.Many more babies now survive at birth.They grow up and become

parents and more adults are living into old age that the populations are being added at both ends

Interviewer:I belive that the explosion of population has caused many problems for the world.Don’t you think so?

population has causesd many problems for the

world,particularly for developing

countries.Scientists say that if the population of the world continues to grow at this rate there will be

shortage of food,lack of hospitals and

schools,illiteracy and poor living conditions

problem?

• Expert: I think,there are a number of solutions

to the problem of overpopulation.The first is to educate people and make them aware of the

danger of having more chidren.The second is

to provide safe,inexpensive birth_control

methods.The third is to strictly implement a

family planning policy.And the fourth is to

exercise strict and fair reward and punishment policies.Only in doing so can we have a better world for us and for your younger generations

• Interviewer: Thank you very much for being

with us tonight,Dr.Brown

• Expert:You’re quite welcome.

• E LANGUAGE FORCUS

Pronunciation

Listen and repeat

Conditional types 3 (revision) Conditional in reported speech

Practise reading aloud this dialogue

• A: Didn’t you go to the cricket club?

• B: Yes, I did go to the cricket club

• A: Was it crowded?

• B: Quite crowded.

• A: Was Greg there?

• B: Greg was there, yes And Robert Queen

was there, too

• A: Does Robert Queen like cricket?

• B: No, he doesn’t He quarrelled with Greg He

went to the pub and drank some glasses of

beer

• A: Oh dear!

cleaner’s

_ If it doesn’t rain, I will come to see you.

If it didn’t rain, I (come) to see you _ If it didn’t rain, I would come to see you

1 I would drive to work if I had a car.

choose?

closed down.

Exercise 2 Put the verb in brackets into the correct

If I ad (know) _ about the job, I would have

applied for it.

for it.

1 They would have paid you more if they had been told

of its value.

would have woken him up.

hungry.

brought that house.

exams.

Exercise 3 Change the following conditional

sentences into reported speech.

Example:

“If I were you, I wouldn’t buy that coat,” she said.

_ She said (that) if she were me she wouldn’t buy

that coat.

1.“ I will come to see you if I hace time” the man said to her.

• The man told her he would come to see her if

he had time

2.“What would you say if someone stepped on

your feet?” he asked her

• He asked herWhat she would say if someone

stepped on her feet

3.“If it doesn’t rain, we will go out with you” they said to me

• They said to me if it didn’t rain, we would go

out with me

4.“What would you do if you were a billionaire?” the man asked the woman

• The man asked the woman what she would do

if you were a billionaire

5 “If you had asked me, I would have lent you

my motobike,” the man said to me

• The man said to me If I had asked him, he

would have lent me it motobike

7 “They would be very disappointed if you did

not come” the man said to his daughter

• The man said to his daughter They would be

very disappointed if she did not come

9 “I’m sure they will understand if you explain

the situation to them” the boy said to the girl

• The boy said to the girlshe has sure they

would understand if she explain the situation

to them