Unit 7. World population

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WORLD POPULATION

According to UNFP, world population now is 7,2 billion In

Vietnam, it is about 84 million.

They tell us that we are facing overpopulation

Unit 7: W ORLD P

OPULAT

I BEFORE YOU READ:

following question.

1 BEFORE YOU READ:

1 Where can you find the scenes?

2 What does each of the pictures

tell you?

3 Do you think that the larger in

population a country is, the stronger it is? Why/ Why not?

I NEW WORDS :

to increase: Gia tăng ≠ to decrease : giảm

to raise animals: nuôi động vật

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family planning:

kế hoạch hóa gia đình

400 200

Third World : Thế Giới Thứ 3

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- Increase (v) : tăng

- Decrease (v): giảm

- Double (v): gaáp ñoâi

- raise animals (v phr): nuôi động vật

- Third World (n phr): thế giới thứ ba

- Family planning (n phr) : kế hoạch hóa gia đình

2 WHILE YOU READ:

The population of the world has been increasing faster and faster In 10,000 BC., there were probably only 10 million people In A.D 1 , there were 300 million It took 1,750 years for the world population to reach 625 million In 1850 , only

100 years later, the population reach the figure of 1,300 million In 1950 , the figure had more than doubled to reach

2,510 million In 1985 , only 35 years later, there were 4,760 million people In 2000 , the world’s population was about

6,6 billion , and by 2015 it is expected to be over 7 billion

Does the earth have enough resources to support this many people? Different scientists give different answers to this question Some say that there are enough resources to support 8 billion people Other say that we must limit population growth because our resources are limited Only 10 percent of the earth’s land can be used for farming and another 20 percent for raising animals There is a limit to the water we can use There are also limits to the amounts of petroleum, iron, silver, gold, and other metals.

not think they have too many children , half of them do not want any more However, although millions of women want

to limit the size of their families, they know of no safe way to have fewer children Safe birth – control methods for family planning are not available to them It is time governments and international organizations did something to help them so that the world population growth can to decrease instead of continuing to increase.

limit control

figures increases

method international

Although

resources

1 _ most journalists studied journalism in college, some older writers never attended a university

2.Can you explain the for changing salt water to fresh water?

3.The number of injuries from automobile accidents every year.

4.Some countries are poor because they have very few natural _

5.These are all : 1, 75, 293.

6 There is a(n) _of 20 minutes for this short test Students must turn in their papers at the end of 20th minute.

7 The United Nations is a(n) _ organization.

8 Some children behave badly and their parents can’t _them.

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Answer the questions on the passage

1 What was the population of the world in 10,000 B.C., 1750, 1850, 1950, 1985, and

2000?

2 How many people is the world expected to have by the year 2015?

3 Can the Earth have enough resources to support its population?

4 Do most Third World women want to have a lots of children?

5 Why can’t women in the world limit the size of their family?

LESSON 1: READING

TASK 2: ANSWER KEYS

1 What was the population of the world in 10,000 B.C., 1750, 1850, 1950,

1985, and 2000?

 The world population in 10,000 B.C is 10 million; 1750: 625 million;

1850: 1300 million; 1950: 2510 million; 1985: 4760 million; 2000: about

Complete the chart

TASK 2: ANSWER KEYS

3 Can the Earth have enough resources to support its population?

 Some scientists say it can, but others say it can’t.

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LESSON 1: READING

TASK 2: ANSWER KEYS

4 Do most Third World women want to have a lots of children?

5 Why can’t women in the world limit the size of their family?

 No, they don’t most of them have more children than they want

 They can’t limit the size of their family because they know of

no safe way to have fewer children

Play

Question 6

Question 2

125 100

1 In 1750 the world population was 625

2 All scientists agree that the earth has enough

resources to support all of the people.

T

Some scientists ….

The Big Wheel

/ F

3 We can use … percent of the earth’s land to raise animals.

20

4 What are resources also limit?

 There are also limits to the amounts of petroleum, iron, silver,

gold , and other metals

The Big Wheel

5 Many women in the ……… do not have safe control methods.

Third World

6 ……… ……can’t do anything to help decrease the world population

Government and international

organizations

The Big Wheel

Because safe birth-control methods are not available

The world population has been increasing faster and faster

Some scienti sts say

Another 20 percent for raising animals

There are also limit to water, petroleum, iron,silver,gold and other metals

There are also limit to water, petroleum, iron,silver,gold and other metals

Our resources are limit

Everyone should do something to help decrease the world population

3 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.

China, India, the USA, Indonesia, and Brazil

China, Indonesia, India are in Asia The USA and

Brazil are in America The richest country is the

USA The poorest country is Indonesia.

 China 1.3 b in 2008

 India 1.1 b in 2008