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Module 9
Module 9 Population
Unit 3 Language in use
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 graphs
Try to retell the passage in Unit 2 by the given key words.
Pay attention to the words in red.
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.
不定冠词用来修饰可数名词单数
a常用于以辅音音素开头的单词前
an常用于以元音音素开头的单词前
不定冠词 a, an
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.
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。
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, 定冠词 the。
在英语中还有不使用冠词的情况，也称为零冠词。
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。
e.g. *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。
e.g. *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。
e.g. have a good time, in a hurry, have a break, a lot of,
have a look, with a smile等。
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。
(4) a与an 的不同
二、定冠词the的用法
e.g. *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.
(1) 指前文提到过的人或物，或特指某人或某物。
(2) 指谈话双方都知道的人或物。
(3) 用于序数词以及形容词的最高级之前。
e.g. I had to write the report twice last term!
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
e.g. the Nile, the Pacific Ocean, the Alps, the Great Wall of China
(6) 用于表示方位的名词前。
e.g. Shanghai is in the east of China.
(7) 用在乐器名称的前面。
e.g. Can you play the guitar
e.g. in the morning, the day after tomorrow, listen to the radio, at the moment, go to the beach, by the way等。
(8) 在某些形容词前加定冠词，表示一类人或物。
e.g. 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”。
e.g. The Browns should take care of the old.
(10) 用于某些固定短语中。
三、零冠词的用法
e.g. on Teachers’ Day, on Monday, in September, in winter
注意：in the summer of 2023（表示特指，故加the）
1. 表示节日、星期、月份、季节等的名词前面一般不加冠词。
e.g. have lunch
2. 表示一日三餐的名词前面一般不加冠词。
3. 表示球类运动和棋类的名词与play连用时，一般不加冠词。
e.g. play basketball, play chess
4. 表示语言和学科的名词前面一般不加冠词。
e.g. *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，不加冠词。
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
1. 百位数的读法
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
6，500，431，729
seven hundred and twenty-nine
thousand
million
billion
six
billion,
five hundred million,
four hundred and thirty-one thousand,
hundred
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。
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./
1. The C919 is ________large plane made by China. （2023湖南怀化中考）
A. a B. an C. the
A
B
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;/
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
C
D
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
C
C
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. /
C
B
1. China
2. the US
3. Australia
4. New Zealand
d) 1,411,780,000
c) 331,698,000
a) 5,084,000
b) 25,690,000
Work in pairs. Match the countries with their populations in 2020.
1
Read your answers to Activity 1 to the whole class.
China has a population of …
Now listen and check.
2
Listen again and read the numbers after the tape.
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.
1,411,780,000
331,698,000
25,690,000
5,084,000
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
Read the chart and answer the questions.
3
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
2. Which city’s population will increase the most from 2018 to 2030
Dhaka will increase the most from 2018 to 2030.
1. Which city had the largest population in 2018
Mexico city had the largest population in 2018.
I think Dhaka will have the biggest population problem, because its population will increase the fastest.
4. Which city/cities do you think will have the biggest population problem Why
3. Which city will have a larger increase in its population, Mumbai or Cairo
Cairo will have a larger increase in its population.
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.
an
the
a
a
the
a
a
a
a
Complete the passage with a, an or the where necessary.
4
1. We believe the schools in Arnwick are very good, and we are 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.
better
smaller
few good much small
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in the box.
more
fewer
5
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
Problems People from Parkville live in _______________________________.
It _______________________to go to school by bus.
__________________________________________.
flats outside the centre of Arnwick
takes an hour
There is air pollution
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Reasons __________________________________________.
__________________________________________.
__________________________________________
___________________________________________.
__________________________________________.
People moved to the city to find jobs
It was expensive to live in the city centre
Parkville became part of Arnwick, and the population of Arnwick became even larger
The traffic is bad
Solutions The government is making a great effort to __________________________________________.
__________________________________________.
__________________________________________
__________________________________________.
solve Arnwick’s problems with better public services
There will be more schools, so pupils won’t need to travel far
The government is reducing air pollution from 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.
population
countryside pollution population space traffic
Complete the passage with the words in the box.
countryside
space
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Another huge problem for the world is (4) ____________. There is so much (5) ___________ on the roads that in some cities the air is heavily polluted. We should work harder to protect our world.
pollution
traffic
countryside pollution population space traffic
1. Growing population is a problem ________________.
2. The population of the world may grow more slowly _______________.
3. The supermarket _______________ when a bigger one opened in the town.
all over the world
all over the world closed down
in the future it takes not … any more
in the future
Complete the sentences with the expressions in the box.
closed down
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4. Usually ___________________ an hour to get there by bus.
5. The town had a lot of pollution in the past but it is ____________ a problem ______________.
all over the world closed down
in the future it takes not … any more
it takes
not
any more
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.
Listen and choose the best summary.
9
Joining a car club is cheaper / more expensive than having a personal car.
People in car clubs pay for / do not 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 / are not healthier.
Listen again and choose the correct answer.
10
Do you think car clubs would be popular in China Why / Why not
Discuss this question.
11
Read the passage “World population and water”.
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.
twice
3.4 million
Discussion:
How population is related to water and what are the problems with water
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.
Work in groups. Prepare to make your graph.
Making a graph
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Decide how you want to make your graph.
Draw it and colour it. You can also make it on the computer.
Label it clearly.
Make your graph.
Write a paragraph to describe your graph.
13
14
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.
Population
(million)
Year
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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.
three times a week
in the south of
The closest / supermarket
The Yellow River
nearest
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.
an exciting basketball
game / match
play baseball
The Browns
the first student
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。
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).
take, pollute, problem, rubbish, local, billion, huge, quiet, public, grow
huge
public
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.
take, pollute, problem, rubbish, local, billion, huge, quiet, public, grow
taking
grew
problems
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.
take, pollute, problem, rubbish, local, billion, huge, quiet, public, grow
quiet
rubbish
local
pollution
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.
take, pollute, problem, rubbish, local, billion, huge, quiet, public, grow
billions
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
2. How big is the drainage area (流域面积) of the Fenhe River
3. How many cities of Shanxi does the Fenhe River flow through (流经)
About 713 / seven hundred and thirteen km.
About 39,721 / thirty-nine thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one km2.
6 / Six.
Finish your graph.
