Unit 7A. Reading

The second picture indicates that population explosion can lead to poverty and unemployment The second picture indicates that population explosion can lead to poverty and unemployment W

Can you find out the key word hidden in the

crossword?

Unit 7

Period 37

Ask and answer the following questions

Ask and answer the following questions

1 How many children have they got in the family?

- They have got 6 children in the family

2 Where do they live?

- They live in an old and-draw cottage with

mud-nothing valuable

3 Is it a poor or rich family?

- It is a poor family

1 Do they have a hard life? Yes, they do.

2 Why do you know that?

Because the people tend to do manual work and some are unemployed

3 Do they live in new houses or old houses?

They live in very old

houses

4 Is it a poor or rich

town?

It is a poor town

The second picture indicates that population explosion can lead to

poverty and unemployment

The second picture indicates that population explosion can lead to

poverty and unemployment

What

does each o

f the pictur

es tel

l you?

The first picture tells us that if

we have a big family, we may not support our children properly and give them good life and

education.

The first picture tells us that if

we have a big family, we may not support our children properly and give them good life and

education.

Do you think that

the larger in

population a

country is, the

stronger it is?

Why/ Why not?

Do you think that

the larger in

population a

country is, the

stronger it is?

Why/ Why not?

It is not always true that the larger in population a

country is, the stronger it

is The reason is that a large population can result

in poverty, environmental population, unemployed and social evils, which will easily weaken a country.

It is not always true that the larger in population a

country is, the stronger it

is The reason is that a large population can result

in poverty, environmental population, unemployed and social evils, which will easily weaken a country.

Read the passage and then do the

tasks that follow

- Figure ['figə] (n): con số

- Double ['d bl]ʌ (v): tăng gấp đôi

- Limit ['limit] (v): hạn chế

- Growth [grouθ] (n): sự phát triển

- Amount [ə'maunt] (n): tổng số

- Petroleum [pə'trouliəm] (n): dầu mỏ

- Metal ['metl] (n): kim loại

- Birth control methods: các biện pháp hạn chế sinh đẻ

- Available [ə'veiləbl] (adj): có sẵn

The words in the box all appear in the passage Fill each blank with a suitable word (Change the form of the word and

use the dictionary when necessary)

limit figures method althoughcontrol increase international 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 injures from automobile

accidents ……… every year

Although

methodincreases

5 These are all ……….: 1, 75, 293.

6 There is a (n) ………… ……… of 20 minutes for this short test Students must turn in their

7 The United Nations is a(n)

……… organisation

8 Some children behave badly and their

parents can’t ……… them

figureslimit

international

control

Answer the questions

on the passage

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

The population of the world in 10,000

the world is expected to be 7

billion

By the year 2015, the population of

the world is expected to be 7

billion

3 Can the Earth

can’t

No, they don’t.

No, they don’t.

of no safe way to have

fewer children

Because they know

of no safe way to have

fewer children

Discuss with a partner and find world largest countries in population Say

where they are and which is the richest

and which is the poorest country

5 countries have the largest

population in the world.

Position of these countries.

1 China, India and Indonesia

The richest and poorest country

The richest country is

the USA and the poorest

country may be India.

- Learn by heart new words and first paragraph.

- Prepare B Speaking