unit 7 cb

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UNIT 7 WORLD POPULATION

Lesson 1 - Reading

TASK 1 : Fill each blank with a suitable word in the

box

control figures

increase

method international although resources

in college , some older writers never attended a university

salt water to fresh water ?

accidents every year

4 Some countries are poor because they have very few

natural _

short test Students must turn in their papers at the end of

organisation

_ them

international

figures control

TASK 2:

ANSWER KEY

B.C was 10 million, in 1750 it was 625 million, in 1850 it was 1300 million, in

1950 it was 2510 million, in 1985 it was

4760 million, in 2000 it was 6.6 billion

world is expected to be 7 billion

say it can’t

have fewer children

AFTER YOU READ

* The 5 largest countries in population are:

1 China 2 India 3 Russia 4 The USA

5 Indonesia

Europe : Russia

- Can the Earth have enough

resources to support its

population ?

- How many people is the

world expected to have by the

year 2015 ?

- Do most Third World

women want to have a lot

of children ?

- What was the population of

the world in 10,000 B.C.,

1750, 1850, 1950, 1985, and

2000 ?

- Why can’t women in the world limit the size of their families ?