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Module 9 Population
Unit 1 The world’s population was about 7.8 billion in 2020.
【教学目标】
1. To understand population-related topics
2. To get specific information from the listening material
3. To be able to read and understand large numbers
【教学重点】
New words and expressions
big numbers
【教学难点】
To grasp the phrases and important sentences
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Consolidate new words
Look and say. The teacher shows the pictures of new words and let the students say the new words as quickly as possible.
Step 2 Warming up
Work in pairs. Look at the picture and talk about it. Use the words in the box to help you.
city shop noise people traffic
e.g. I really hate the noise of the traffic in some big cities.
Step 3 Pre-listening数字的表达
千位数以上：
从数字的右端向左端数起，每三位数加一个逗号“，”。从右开始，第一个“，”前的数字后添加thousand，第二个“，”前面的数字后添加million，第三个“，”前的数字后添加 billion。每个单位按照百、十、个位向下读，其中百位到十位之间要加入and。
Step 4 Listening
1. Listen to Activity 2 and choose the best answer.
1) What’s the population of New York
a) About 17 million. c) About 30 million.
b) About 9 million.
2) What’s the population of Tokyo
a) About 4 million. c) About 14 million.
b) About 28 million.3. Listen again and complete the blanks.
2. Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Girl: I went _________ in the city centre with my family last week.
Boy: Did you have a good time
Girl: Yes, but there was a lot of _________ on the way there. And there were so many people in the shops. There was a lot of _________.
Boy: Well, New York is a big city.
Girl: Yes, it is. It has a population about _________ million.
Boy: Nine million! Does New York have _________ population in the world
Girl: No, it doesn’t. There are cities with a _____ population. For example, Tokyo has a population of about 14 million.
Boy: Really That’s a lot of people!
Step 5 Listen to the dialogue of activity 3 and complete the notes.
Population of the world in 2020: _______________
Population of the world in 2030: _______________
Population of India in 2030: __________________
Step 6 Read the dialogue and then fill in the blanks.
Tony is preparing a ___________ called “The world’s population”. Lingling just ___________ a video about world population, so she can help Tony. They can’t believe that the world population is such a __________ number. The countries like India, Nigeria and Pakistan will ___________ the most population growth. When populations ___________ too fast, it can cause ___________, such as too much traffic and ___________. However, countries with low ___________ rates have problems too. There aren’t enough __________ people to look after the old ones.
Step 7 Discussion
Besides (除了) too much traffic and noise, what other problems may appear if the populations increase too fast
What problems may appear if one country has low birth rate
What can the government do to increase the birth rate
Step 8 Word study
Let Ss choose the correct answers and show in groups.
1) Birth happens at the start / at the end of life.
2) Huge means large / small.
3) An increase in population means more / fewer people.
4) Hang on a minute means waiting for a short time / a long time.
5) Making notes means writing a long passage / a few words.
6) A problem is something easy / difficult.
7) A report is a long piece of writing / a few words.
8) A billion is a hundred / a thousand million.
Step 9 Everyday English
I don’t believe!
Hang on a minute!
Great!
Step 10 Pronunciation and speaking
Get the students to learn how to read the numbers: thousand, billion, and million.
Listen and repeat.
8,742
eight thousand, seven hundred and forty-two
2,463,128
two million, four hundred and sixty-three thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight
1,370,000,000
one billion, three hundred and seventy million
2,000,030,000
two billion and thirty thousand
Step 11 Group work
1. Prepare a talk on the world’s population. Think about the questions.
What is the population of the world
How fast is the world’s population growing
What are the problems of fast-growing and slow-growing populations
What else do you know about the world’s population
2. Now work in pairs and give your talk.
Step 12 Language points
Let Ss master the main points of the passage.
1. I’m preparing a report called “The world’s population”.
我在准备写一篇题为《世界人口》的报告。
prepare v. 准备
e.g. My mother is preparing lunch.我妈妈正在准备午饭。
You must prepare a room for the guest.
你必须为这位客人准备一个房间。
He is preparing for the World Cup.
他正在为世界杯做准备。
We are preparing to go on holiday.
我们正准备去度假。
【语境应用】完成句子，每空词数不限。
1) 他们一周前开始为这次旅行做准备。
They began to ____________________ this trip a week ago.
2) 你准备给凯特写信吗？
Do you ___________________ to Kate
3) Manny花了一周的时间准备他的报告。
Manny spent a week ___________________.
4) 我们正在为来访者们准备一间旅馆客房。
We are _______________________ the visitors.
report n. 报告；汇报
make a report汇报 write a report 写报告
give a report 作报告 prepare a report 准备报告
e.g. Shall we make a report to the headmaster
我们要给校长作一个汇报吗？
拓展
reporter n. 记者；通讯员
e.g. His elder brother is a reporter. 他的哥哥是一名记者。
2. I can’t believe it! 真不敢相信！
believe v. 相信，其后可接名词、代词或从句作宾语。
e.g. I believe the little girl. 我相信这个小女孩。
I believe we can make it. 我相信我们能成功。
e.g. I believe her, but I don’t believe in her.我相信她的话，但我不信任她。
3. Hang on a minute! I’ll make some notes!
等等，我需要记些笔记。
hang on 稍等，相当于 hold on。也可用于电话用语。
e.g. Can you hang on for a minute 你能不能稍等一会儿？
Hang on a second. I'll come with you. 稍等，我跟你一起去。
Please hang on. I have something important to tell you.
请别挂电话。我有重要的事情要告诉你。
notes n. (pl.) 笔记，随笔 take / make / write notes 记笔记
e.g. Can I borrow your class notes
我能不能借用一下你的课堂笔记？
I read the first chapter and took some notes.
我阅读了第一章并作了笔记。
4. When populations increase too fast, it can cause problems, such as too much traffic and noise.
人口增长太快会引发一些问题，比如交通拥堵和噪音过多。
increase v. 增大，增长
increase by 增加了…… increase to 增加(长)到……
e.g. Food prices increased by 10% in less than a year.
不到一年时间，食品价格就增长了10%。
The population of the town has increased to five hundred thousand.
这个镇上的人口已经增长到了五十万。
increase n. 增大，增长
e.g. We need an increase in money. 我们需要增加资金。
be on the increase ( = be increasing )正在增加
e.g. Crime in this area is on the increase．这个地区的犯罪率在上升。
The demand for everyday goods is ever on the increase．
对日用品的需求日益增长。
cause v. 造成；引起
cause sth. 引起……
cause sb. sth. = cause sth. to sb. 对……造成…..
cause sb. to do sth. 使某人做某事
e.g. What caused his death 是什么原因造成他的死亡
He caused his parents a lot of trouble. = He caused a lot of trouble to his parents.
他对父母造成很多麻烦。
The drought caused the plants to die. 久旱造成植物枯萎。
cause n. 原因；起因
e.g. We are trying to find the cause of the accident.
我们正在努力找到这场事故的原因。
【语境应用】完成句子。
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 是什么造成的这场事故？
What ____________________
2) Alice的腿受伤了，是什么引起的？
Alice’s leg is hurt. What ________________
3) 我们的任务就是找出起火原因。
It’s our job to find out _________________.
problem n. 麻烦；问题
e.g. This time, we must depend on ourselves to solve the problem.
这次，我们必须依靠我们自己去解决问题。
You can ask him some questions by telephone.
你可以通过电话问他一些问题。
【语境应用】选词填空。
1) What caused this ________
2) You can ask me some ________ after class.
3) Mr Zhang answered our __________ at the end of his talk.
4) That ________ is too difficult for me to solve.
5) There are more and more people in the world. It's really a ________.
too many后面加可数名词；too much后面加不可数名词，表示“太多的”。
e.g. There are too many books in the bookshop.
书店里的书太多了。
There is too much water on the ground.
地上的水太多了。
辨析 too much, much too与too many
e.g. He doesn’t have too much money.
他没有太多钱。
It is much too cold. 天太冷了。
There are too many people in the park. 公园里人太多了。
拓展
too much还可用作名词性短语，在句中作主语或宾语；也可用作副词性短语，在句中作状语，修饰动词。
e.g. You’ve given me too much.
你已经给我太多了。
He talked too much at the meeting, didn’t he
他在会上讲得太多了，不是吗？
中考链接
My cousin is _______ heavy because he often eats _____ fast food.
A. much too, too many
B. too much; too much
C. much too; too much Key: C
noise n. 声音；噪音
make (a) noise 制造噪声
辨析noise, sound, voice
e.g. There is too much noise in that restaurant.
那家餐馆太吵了。
Light travels much faster than sound.
光的传播速度比声音的快得多。
The little boy has a beautiful voice.
这个小男孩有一副嗓音。
【语境应用】选词填空。
1) Mary has a good singing _______.
2) We should not make _______ in the library.
3) Suddenly we heard a big _______ from the machine.
完成句子。
现在外面有太多的交通噪音。
Now there is too much _______ _______ outside.
5. How about countries with slow-growing populations
人口增长缓慢的国家情况又会怎样呢？
grow vi. 1) 增长；增大；扩大; 2) 长大；长高；发育；成长
grow up 长大；成长
e.g. Sales of new cars grew by 10% last year. 去年新车的销量增长了10%。
Tom seemed to grow taller every day. Tom好像一天比一天高。
【语境应用】完成句子。
1) 如今孩子们长得很快。
Children _________ _________ these days.
2) 该地区的学校数量正在增加。
The number of schools in this area _________ _________.
3) 我希望长大后能环游世界。
I hope to travel around the world when I _________ _________.
Step 13 Summary
hang on 稍等
the population of ... ……的人口
prepare ... for ... 为……准备……
such as 比如
too much 太多
make some notes 记笔记
birth rates 出生率
Hang on a minute!
Great!
I’m preparing for…
I can’t believe it!
Step 14 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. The government plans to spend _______(billion) of yuan on schools and libraries.
2. Jenny is _______(prepare) for next week's dance show.
3. The number of tourists to this area is _______(increase).
4. I read two _______(report) on the housing situation in our city yesterday.
5. The big changes in my home town also brought some _______(problem).
6. About four _______(five) of the people in the company were born in the 1980s.
Ⅱ. 根据语境及所给首字母提示补全所缺单词。
1. Too much screen time can c_______ our eyes to feel dry.
2. The population of old people in our town is g_______ fast.
3. Remember to take n_______ carefully when you are having classes.
4. Mrs Green gave b_______ to a cute baby girl last Friday in the hospital.
5. I couldn't sleep last night because the people next door were making too much n_______.
Ⅲ. 根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词。
1. 等一下！我还没准备好。
_______ _______ a minute! I'm not quite ready.
2. 这两个男孩在谈论他们最喜欢的作家。
The two boys are _______ _______ their favourite writers.
3. Henry昨晚在他的笔记本上写下了一首诗。
Henry _______ _______ a poem in his notebook last night.
4. Jack会说几种语言，例如法语和汉语。
Jack can speak several languages _______ _______ French and Chinese.
5. Barry将来想成为一名像他父亲一样的医生。
Barry wants to become a doctor like his father _______ _______ _______.
Ⅳ. 根据对话内容，从方框中选择能填入空白处的最佳选项补全对话，其中有两项多余。
A: Hey, Rob. Did you go to the concert at the university last night
B: No, Mark, I didn't. Was it good
A: It was! The music was great! (1)_______
B: A million I can't believe it!
A: Well, maybe one or two thousand. (2)_______
B: Those concerts at the university are really popular. A lot of people go to them.
A: (3)_______
B: Sometimes. I didn't go to many this year. I went to several last year.
A: This was my fourth university concert this year. (4)_______
B: Why not
A: Last night's concert was the last one of the year.
B: Oh, yeah. (5)_______
A. Can you get the tickets B. But I can't go to any more. C. I didn't count (计算总数) them. D. But there will be more next year. E. I'm not interested in those concerts. F. But there were a million people there! G. Do you always go to those concerts
Step 15 Homework
Write a short paragraph about world’s population. Use the information in your talk in Activity 6 to help you.
Unit 3 Language in use
【教学目标】
To understand and read large numbers
To summarise and consolidate the use of articles
To understand and interpret graphs
To be able to get the general idea and some specific information when listening
To be able to make your own graph
【教学重点】
To master the word, the numbers and the article.
【教学难点】
The using of the number and the article.
【教学过程】
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Language practice
1. That’s a huge number.
2. The small local school in Parkville closed down five years ago, and getting to the nearest school in Arnwick takes her an hour by bus.
3. It said the world’s population was about 7.8 billion in 2020.
4. Parkville was near Arnwick, a city with a population of 10,000,000.
Step 2 Grammar
冠词
冠词是限定词的一种，不能单独使用，常用于修饰名词。冠词有两种：不定冠词 a, an, 定冠 the。在英语中还有不使用冠词的情况，也称为零冠词。
一、不定冠词a, an
不定冠词用来修饰可数名词单数，指人或物中的某一个或某一类，但不具体说明是何人何物。
(1) 首次提到某人某物，不定冠词起介绍作用。
I am preparing a report called “The world’s population”.
When Jo’s grandparents first came to Parkville, it was a quiet village.
(2) 表示“每一”的概念，相当于every。
The eggs cost 12 yuan a kilo.
I go to the cinema once a month.
(3) 某些固定短语中，要用不定冠词。如：have a good time, in a hurry, have a break, a lot of, have a look, with a smile等。
(4) a与an 的不同
a常用于以辅音音素开头的单词前，如: a city, a university student；an常用于以元音音素开头的单词前，如: an egg, an old man。
【注意】元音音素开头的单词不一定是元音字母开头，如hour使用不定冠词时要用an。
二、定冠词the的用法
(1) 指前文提到过的人或物，或特指某人或某物。
I have a dog and a cat. The dog is brown and the cat is black.
The old man with thick glasses is their history teacher.
(2) 指谈话双方都知道的人或物。
I had to write the report twice last term!
(3) 用于序数词以及形容词的最高级之前。
This room is the largest on the ground floor, and that room is the second largest.
(4) 用于指世界上独一无二的事物。
The moon is far smaller than the earth.
(5) 在江河、海洋、山脉等地理名词前及由普通名词构成的专 有名词前。
the Nile, the Pacific Ocean, the Alps, the Great Wall of China
(6) 用于表示方位的名词前。
Shanghai is in the east of China.
(7) 用在乐器名称的前面。
Can you play the guitar
(8) 在某些形容词前加定冠词，表示一类人或物。
The young should take care of the old.
(9) 用于姓氏复数形式之前，表示“一家人”或“夫妇两人”。
The Browns should take care of the old.
(10) 用于某些固定短语中。如：in the morning, the day after tomorrow, listen to the radio, at the moment, go to the beach, by the way等。
三、零冠词的用法
1. 表示节日、星期、月份、季节等的名词前面一般不加冠词。如：
on Teachers’ Day, on Monday, in September, in winter
注意：in the summer of 2015（表示特指，故加the）
2. 表示一日三餐的名词前面一般不加冠词。如：have lunch
3. 表示球类运动和棋类的名词与play连用时，一般不加冠词。如：
play basketball, play chess
4. 表示语言和学科的名词前面一般不加冠词。如：
David can speak Chinese very well.
History is Susan’s favourite subject.
5. 名词前面有指示代词或形容词性物主代词时，不再加冠词。如：
May I have a look at your dictionary
6. 在一些固定短语中，名词前面用零冠词。如：
go to bed, go to school, by bus, at night
【注意】
在某些词组中，名词前用冠词和不用冠词的意义不同。如：
in class （在课堂上） in the class （在班里）
in hospital （生病住院） in the hospital （在医院里）
at table （在吃饭） at the table （在桌子旁）
大数字的表达与读法
用英语读数字时，要将每三位数看作一个单位，每个单位里的数字按照百、十、个位往后读，遵循百倍以内数字的读法。
. 百倍数的读法
百位的基数词一般在百位和十位之间加and或用and 直接连接百位与个位。
578 读作：five hundred and seventy-eight
403读作：four hundred and three
2. 千位及千位以上数字的读法
千位及千位以上的数字从右向左数起，每三位数加一个逗点。从右开始，第一个逗点处读thousand, 第二个逗点处读million，第三个逗点处读billion。
中考链接
1. The C919 is ________large plane made by China. （2023湖南怀化中考）
A. a B. an C. the
2. China is _________ country with a history of more than 5,000 years. (2023江苏连云港)
A. the B. a C. an D./
3. My mother is making ______ apple pie and I want to try ________ piece. (2023天津中考)
A. a; an B. a; 不填 C. an; a D. an; 不填
4. Yangzhou is _____ city full of ________ history, culture and mouthwatering food. （2023江苏 扬州）
A. the; a B. a:a C. the; the D. a;/
5. —What do you think of the guide book Lonely Planet
—Oh, it is really _________ useful one. You can always find _________ information you need while traveling. (2023山东滨州中考)
A. a; a B. an; an C. a; the D. an; the
6. Tracy, _____exchange student from Norway, is ___ university student in Heilongjiang now. （2023黑龙江齐齐哈尔中考）
A. a, an B. an, the C. an, a
7. —Betty began to play ________ violin at the age of four.
—No wonder she plays so well. (2023江苏宿迁中考)
A. a B. an C. the D. /
8. There are 60 minutes in ________ hour. (2023甘肃武威中考)
A. a B. an C. the D. /
Step 3 Match the countries with their populations in 2020.
Match the countries with their populations in groups.
1) China a) 5,084,000
2) the US b) 25,690,000
3) Australia c) 331,698,000
4) New Zealand d) 1,411,780,000
2. Read your answers to Activity 1 to the whole class.
3. Now listen and check.
4. Listen again and read the numbers after the tape.
1) 1. China has a population of one billion, four hundred and eleven million, seven hundred and eighty thousand.
2) The US has a population of three hundred and thirty-one million, six hundred and ninety-eight thousand.
3) Australia has a population of twenty-five million, six hundred and ninety thousand.
4) New Zealand has a population of five million and eighty-four thousand.
Step 4 Learning to learn
1. Learn how to see a table and a chart
When you see a table or a chart, look carefully at the labels and graphs to make sure that you understand what they are showing. Look at the chart below. What is it comparing What can you conclude
2. Read the chart and answer the questions.
1) Which city had the largest population in 2018
2) Which city’s population will increase the most from 2018 to 2030
3) Which city will have a larger increase in its population, Mumbai or Cairo
4) Which city/cities do you think will have the biggest population problem Why
Step 5 Complete the passage with a, an or the where necessary.
Mina is (1) ____ eighteen-year-old girl. She has got (2) ____ brother and (3) ____ sister. Mina is (4) ____ oldest child in (5) ____ family. She lives in (6) ____ very big city. She has (7) ____ job in (8) ____ hotel. She hopes that one day she will have (9) ____ chance to go to (10) ____ college.
Step 6 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.
few good much small
1. We believe the schools in Arnwick are very good, and we’re working to make them even _______.
2. Their flat is too large for two people. They want to find a _______ one.
3. Anna always talks about her ideas. I think she needs to listen ________.
4. There are a lot of parks in this city. I think there are ______ parks in a lot of other cities.
Step 7 Complete the diagram. Use the words in the box to help you.
air city flat public service school traffic
From Parkville to Arnwick: problems and solutions
Step 8 Complete the passage with the words in the box.
countryside pollution population space traffic
Our world is facing many problems. Two of the biggest are increasing population and pollution.
The (1) __________ of the world is increasing quickly. Many people are leaving the (2) __________ to work in the cities, but there is not enough (3) ___________ for so many people.
Another huge problem for the world is (4) ____________. There’s so much (5) ___________ on the roads that in some cities the air is heavily polluted. We should work harder to protect our world.
Step 9 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the expressions in the box.
all over the world closed down in the future it takes not … any more
1) Growing population is a problem ________________.
2) The population of China may grow more slowly ____________.
3) The supermarket ___________ when a bigger one opened in the town.
4) Usually _________ an hour to get there by bus.
5) The town had a lot of pollution in the past but it’s _____ a problem _________.
Step 11 Listen and choose the best summary
a) It is cheaper to share a car than to have a personal car.
b) People in a car club do not often take buses, trains or the underground.
c) There are no car clubs in the US.
d) Joining car clubs is good for you and for the city.
Step 12 Listen again and choose the correct answer
Joining a car club is cheaper / more expensive than having a personal car.
People in car clubs pay for / don’t pay for a car when they drive.
People in car clubs sometimes / never take a bus or ride a bike.
People in car clubs probably are / aren’t healthier.
Step 13 Work in pairs and discuss this question
Do you think car clubs would be popular in China Why Why not
Step 14 Around the world
Get to know about the world population and water.
Read the passage “World population and water”, and fill in the blanks.
Water use is growing more than __________ as fast as the world’s population.
More than ___________ people die each year from drinking and washing with polluted water.
Do more research about this topic with Internet or books.
Step 15 Module task
Work in groups. Prepare to make your graph.
Choose a country or town which interests you. It could be your home town.
Decide the points of time you want to look at — for example, now, ten years ago and ten years from now.
Research the population of your place in those years. Write your notes carefully.
Make your graph.
Decide how you want to make your graph.
Draw it and color it. You can also make it on the computer.
Label it clearly.
Write a paragraph to describe your graph.
In the graph, we can see how the population in the town changed between 1900 and 2000. we can see the population going up the vertical line (垂直线) and the years going across the horizontal line (水平线). The graph shows the population increased by more than one hundred percent from two and a half million to five million in one hundred years. At first it increased very slowly, bet after 1945 it increased much more quickly. From 1990 to 2000, the population even increased by one million. The town itself also grew in size during this time.
Present your graph to the class.
Step 16 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺内容，每空词数不限。
1. Mum does yoga ______________(一周三次).
2. The city of Sanya is ______________(在……的南部) China.
3. ______________(最近的超市) is just around the corner.
4. ______________(黄河) is famous as the “mother river” of China.
5. What ______________(一场激动人心的篮球比赛) this is!
6. Mike decided to ______________(打棒球) with his friends after school.
7. ______________(Brown一家人) go out for dinner every Sunday.
8. Bill is always ______________(第一个学生) to get to school each morning.
Ⅱ. 根据材料内容，从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，使材料意思完整、通顺，注意形式变化，每词限用一次。
take, pollute, problem, rubbish, local, billion, huge, quiet, public, grow
The Fenhe River is the “mother river” of Shanxi Province. It goes through the province from north to south like a(n) (1)_______ belt (腰带). About 43-kilometre section (部分) of the river winding through downtown Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is now a beautiful green city park with fresh air, clean water and good (2)_______ facilities (设施). At weekends, many people enjoy (3)_______ a walk and playing there.
However, things were quite different many years ago. At that time, the population of Taiyuan (4)_______ quickly, because many people moved to the city from other parts of the province to find jobs. As more and more people moved there, a lot of (5)_______ appeared. Many places along the river were once very (6)_______, but after people moved there, these places became noisy and crowded. What was worse, some people didn't pay attention to protecting the environment (环境). They threw (7)_______ into the river. And (8)_______ factories (工厂) also put dirty water into the river from time to time. This caused lots of (9)_______ to the river.
Luckily, at the end of the 20th century, the Taiyuan government started to spend (10)_______ of yuan on protecting the river environment. After years of hard work, the downtown part along the Fenhe River is now very beautiful.
Ⅲ. 上文中提到了山西的“母亲河”——汾河。那么对于汾河，你又了解多少呢？请你上网查阅相关资料，回答以下问题。
1. How long is the Fenhe River
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2. How big is the drainage area (流域面积) of the Fenhe River
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3. How many cities of Shanxi does the Fenhe River flow through (流经)
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Step 17 Homework
Finish your graph.
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