Module 11 Population

Unit 1 It’s the biggest city in China .

Warming-up: Discuss the pictures

What’s happening to our city?

heavy traffic

noise smoke

pollutioncrowd

Warming-up : Describe the picture. crowd 人群 ; 拥挤的 increase 增加 , 增长 noise 噪音 population 人口 traffic 车辆 transport 交通 space 空间 pollution 污染 smoke 烟 ; 吸烟

Act.6: Complete the sentences.1. Ten percent of the ___________lived in the country.2. The factory has produced a lot of _________so it should be closed.3. When we got to the party, there was quite a(n) ___________of people there already.4. At that time of night, there was no ___________ in the street.5. That big table takes up too much ____________ in my small kitchen.6. If every family have more than one child, the population will ______________quickly.

populationpollution

crowdtraffic

space

increase

Useful expressions the population of …… 的人口 too many/ much… 太多… enough space 足够的空间 an increasing population 增长的人口 along with… 连同…一起 transport problems. 交通问题 …percent of… 百分之 ( 多少 )….

come up 到来 , 走来

Practice: 较大数字的读法 .

7,000

28,000

135,000

英语中较大的数字常用以下单词表示。thousand( 千 ), 表示千 , 万 , 十万位的数字 .million( 百万 ), 表示百万 , 千万 , 亿位的数字 .billion( 十亿 ). 表示十亿 , 百亿以上的数字 .

seven thousand

twenty-eight thousandone hundred and thirty-five thousand

7,000,000

4,500,000

79,000,000

350,000,000

140,930,000

seven million

four million ,five hundred thousand seventy-nine million,

three hundred and fifty million

one hundred and forty million ,nine hundred and thirty thousand

1,000,000,000

5,600,000,000

21,000,000,000

33,750,000,000

one billion

five billion, six hundred million

twenty billion

thirty-three billion, seven hundred and fifty million

Act.7: Say out the numbers.

150,000 one hundred and fifty thousand

5,600,00 five million, six hundred thousand

500,000 five hundred thousand

2,100,000 two million, one hundred thousand

82,550,000

200,030,040

eighty-two million, five hundred and fifty thousand

two hundred million, thirty thousand and forty

Ex: listen and say out the numbers

8,000

24,000

150,000

4,000,000

5,200,000

330,400,000

100,860,000

725,900,015

Act.1: listening practice.1. Why was Betty’s shopping trip unsuccessful ? A. Too many people B. Too noisy C. Too much pollution.2. What’s the population of Beijing ? A. About 11,000,000. B. About 13,000,000. C. About 15,000,000.3. What’s the population of Chongqing ? A. About 27,000,000. B. About 31,000,000. C. About 36,000,000.

Act.4: Listen and complete the table.

People in the worldBabies born every minute

Babies born every year

Population of China

Population of the world

259

136,130,4001 billion,

3 hundred million6 billion,

5 hundred million

Language points1.a population of … the population of …

Maoming is a city with a population of over 400,000.

Maoming has a population of over 400,000.

The population of Maoming is over 400,000.

There are over 400,000 people in Maoming.

Eg:

a. The population of Shanghai is 12,000,000.b. Shanghai has a population of 12,000,000c. Shanghai is a big city with a population of 12,000,000..

•What’s the population of….. “…. 人口是多少 ?”

Eg: The population of the village is about 15,000.

------What’s the population of the village ?

------How many people are there in the village ?

a. What’s the population of China ?

b. What’s the population of Guangdong ?

c. What’s the population of the world ?

d. What’s the population of Shenzhen ?

e. What’s the population of the USA ?

•表示人口 多时用 big/large, •表示人口少时用 small

a. Australia has a small population.

The population of Australia is small.

b. The population of Chongqing is bigger than that of Beijing.

----Chongqing has more people than Beijing.

c. The population of Hainan is smaller than that of Sichuan.

----Hainan has fewer people than Sichuan.

d. The population of China is bigger than that of India.

e. The population of Huazhou is smaller than that of Gaozhou.

f. China has the largest population in the world.

---The population of China is the largest in the world.

----China has the most people in the world.

g.. The population of Tibet is the smallest in China.

---Tibet has the smallest population in China.

---Tibet has the fewest people in China.

h. The population of Sichuan is the largest in China.

i. The population of this country is the smallest.

2. crowd n. 人群 a crowd of …. 一群…

Eg: a. He passed in a crowd hard. 他使劲地挤过人群 .

b. A crowd of children are playing over there.

c. There are a crowd of sheep on the hill.

d. A crowd of ducks are swimming in the lake.

crowded adj. 拥挤的 a crowded city

a crowded train

a crowed bus

a crowded traffic

3. space ----room 空间 , 位置 ( 不可数名词 )

a. These books take up too much space in my room.

b. There is only standing space in the crowded bus.

c. There isn’t enough space to store it in the fridge.

4. every , 每隔… .----- 用 how often 提问 a. The Olympics is held _______________.

b. We have an exam __________________.

c. There is a bus to the station ________________.

d. My parents go to hometown ________________.

every four years

every three weeks

every 20 minutes

every two months

5. increase n./ v. 增长 , 增加 increasing adj. 增长的

Eg: a. The increase in population in Europe is very slow.

b. The population in Europe increases slowly.

c. The GDP of China is increasing very fast.

d. The environmental problem are increasing.

f. The income of farmers has increased recently.

6. percent 百分比 , … percent of … 百分之… .

1. 60% 的学生2. 25% 的土地3. 10% 的垃圾食品4. 75% 的老年人5. 一半的老师6. 80% 的中国人口

a. China has 20 percent of the world’s population.b. 48 percent of the students are girls in my class.c. 75 percent of the earth is covered by water.

sixty percent of the students

twenty-five percent of the land

ten percent of junk food

seventy-five percent of the old people

fifty percent of the teachers

eighty percent of China’s population