Unit 7. World population

Unit 7:WORLD POPULATION Writing... The world populationSouth Asia 32% Europe Africa 11% Latin America 6% Northern America 6% Oceania 2% Look at the chart carefully and work in pairs t

Unit 7:

WORLD POPULATION

Writing

The world population

South Asia 32%

Europe

Africa

11%

Latin

America

6%

Northern America 6%

Oceania 2%

Look at the chart

carefully and work in pairs to

The world population

South Asia 32%

East Asia

Europe

15%

Africa

11%

Latin

America

6%

Northern America 6%

Oceania 2%

1 Is the world population distributed evenly?

The world population

South Asia 32%

Europe

Africa

11%

Latin

America

6%

Northern America 6%

Oceania 2%

2 What continent has the most people?

The world population

South Asia 32%

East Asia

Europe

15%

Africa

11%

Latin

America

8%

Northern America 6%

Oceania 2%

3 What continent has the least people?

There are three parts in the description of a chart:

Introduction, Body and Conclusion.

- Introduction should describe what the chart is about, its dates and

location, and say what overall trends you see.

- Body should describe the most important trends, while all

information is summarized to avoid unnecessary details Notes

how many distinctive features diagram has.

* Important! You need to write about all the periods of time and

all the subjects of graph Remember, summarizing doesn’t mean through away information The secret here is to select what’s

important, organize it, compare and contrast.

Studying the chart carefully then write a paragraph of 100 – 120 words, decribing the

information in the chart

Language use:

* The language and structures are given in the book:

- it can be seen that: có thể thấy rằng

- distributed unevenly: phân bố không đều

- account for … per cent: chiếm phần trăm

- more than double the population of: gấp đôi dân số của

- half as much as / nearly half of: bằng một nửa/ gần bằng một nửa

- rank first / last: xếp thứ nhất/nhì

* Other language items:

- make up less than … percent,

- the most + adj + S +V+, the most + adj + S +V,

You may begin with: The chart shows the distribution of world population by region

It can be seen that The chart shows the distribution of the world population by region

It was distributed unevenly, more than half of the world’s population lives in South and East Asia

Latin America

Oceania is the least populated region with the smallest

population

Sample writing

Thanks for your attention