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Unit 6
Describing Places
2007
I. Objectives
To learn how to describe a country in terms of population, language, area and location
To learn to talk about the weather and climate To understand the different diagrams of statistics Writing discourse: finding out irrelevant sentence
Research work
How does climate shape our daily life? (Psychology, Thinking, behaviour)
Interactions between climate changes and the affection of our emotions
III. Topics
Different countries The weather in my hometown My hometown’s geographical features
IV. Vocabulary
Geographical names p.304-305 Names of countries, nationalities and langu
ages p.310-311 Words about the geographical location P. 32
8-329 Words about weather reports P. 330-331 Words about weather condition p. 335-337 Words about climate P.338-340
V. Grammar
Numbers to a million and numbers to a billion — how to read.
Prepositions used in the description of location & weather.
Verbs with irregular past tense and past participle forms
VI. Word Formation
Names of countries, languages, person (sing. & pl.) and nation. (p.310-311)
Day One
What kind of information must be involved in the description of a country? Its name; Its location and neighbors; Its climate Its area Its population Its language Its geographical features Its economic features (industry/agriculture)
2.2 Geographical names
typography.ppt
3. Chinese place names
Wades_Giles_system_conversion_table.doc
Day Two
Word formation.doc
Exception
∎the Danes (used in newspaper headlines) the Danish people (used in the daily life)
∎ He is a Finn/They are Finns (used in newspaper headlines) He is Finnish/They are Finnish (used in the daily life)
Nation: people in land under single government: a community of people or peoples who live in a defined territory and are organized under a single government
2.1 Language work
Population: The population of ____ is _______. ____’s population is _________. ______ is inhabited by ________ people. ______ has ________ inhabitants.
2.1 Language work
Population (ranking): ______ is the first/second/third largest country
in the world/Asia/Europe in/as regards/in regard to/regarding population.
______ ranks first/second in the world in population.
______ has the largest number of inhabitants. Its population is approximately the same as the populations of _____ and _____ put together.
2.1 Language work
Area: ____ covers an area of _______. The area of ____ is _______. ____ is a large country with an area of ____. ______ is inhabited by ________ people. ______ has ________ inhabitants.
2.1 Language work
Area (ranking): The country with the largest area is________. The country which has the second largest area is ___. ______ ranks fifth in the world in/as regards/in regard
to/regarding population. ______ is the tenth largest country in the world in are
a. ______ ranks among the five largest countries in the
world, with an area larger than _____ but smaller than _____.
4 Pie chart
Percentage: To make up To account for To amount to To occupy To have _% of the world’s population/area
Day Three
Questions: — Which state has the largest population/area?
— Which has the next/second largest? — The population/area of California is larger/smaller t
han that of Texas. So it should rank higher/lower. — We don’t want Ohio here. Its population/area does
not come into the five largest. — What percentage of the total does the population/are
a of California make up/account for? — What about that of Texas?
3.2 Listening to Geographical descriptions
1. Austria lies to the east of Switzerland. 2. France is next to Italy to the west. 3. Germany lies directly to the south of
Denmark. 4. The Netherlands is situated to the north of Belgium. 5. Greece is next to Bulgaria to the south. 6. Russia is located to the east of Finland. 7. Slovakia lies between Poland and Hungary. 8. Italy is next to France to the Southeast.
Day Four
Weather and Climate
Weather & Climate
Weather: state of the atmosphere: the state of the atmosphere with regard to temperature, cloudiness, rainfall, wind, and other meteorological
conditions
Climate:METEOROLOGY typical weather in region: the average weather or the regular variations in weather in a region over a period of years