Module 9 Population
Unit 1 The population of China is about 1.37 billion.
教材分析
本课为Module 9的第一单元，对话是由贝蒂、托尼和玲玲在撰写的有关人口增长的报告引出的。对话讨论了北京以及中国的人口问题，很自然地导入了冠词和大数字的相关用法和读法。
教学目标
Knowledge objective
To understand the conversation in relation to population.
To get specific information from the listening material.
To talk about and understand numbers.
Ability objective
To make a short passage or a dialogue with the points in this unit.
Moral objective
To get the student to know how to make a teamwork.
教学重难点
教学重点：1.New words and expressions.
2.To learn the grammar knowledge of big numbers.
教学难点：To grasp the phrases and important sentences.
课前准备
A tape recorder, multimedia and some pictures.
教学过程
Step1 Warm up
Do you know how many people there are in the world now?
2. How about China?
Step2 Look at the picture and talk about the picture.
1. Let Ss look at the picture and use the words in the box to talk in pairs.
2. Elicit their descriptions.
【设计意图】
本活动是词汇学习，旨在通过让学生了解听力中将会出现的生词，为听力和对话扫清语言上的障碍，并引导出本模块的主题。
Step3 Listen and choose the correct answer.
1.Listen to Activity 2 and choose the best answer.
(1)What’s the population of Beijing?
(2)What’s the population of Chongqing?
2.Play the recording and tell the Ss to listen for their answers.
3. Play the recording again for the Ss to answers in pairs.
4.Elicit answers with the students asking and answering the questions in pairs.
【设计意图】
本活动的主要目的是让学生熟悉大数字的表达方式，然后做听力练习。
Step4 Listen and read.
1.Ask the Ss how many babies they think are born every minute around the world. Write the numbers on the board. Then ask them to listen to the conversation to find out.
2. Play the recording again and ask them to repeat chorally and individually.
3. Check whether the numbers on the board are correct with the class.
4.Ask the Ss to practise the conversation in different roles.
【设计意图】
本部分的听力活动主要培养学生听大意和辩听大数字的能力。
Step5 Now complete the notes.
Babies born in every minute (world):
Babies born every year (world):
Population of China:
Population of the world:
Ask the Ss to complete the notes and check their answers with a partner.
Elicit answers from the whole class.
【设计意图】
本活动中的笔记练习旨在培养学生捕捉细节信息的能力。
Step6 Choose the correct answer.
1. Let the Ss choose the correct answers and show in groups.
2. Elicit answers with the Ss reading out the whole sentences.
【设计意图】
本活动为词汇练习，要求学生能够用简单的英文解释单词。
Step7 Listen and repeat.
1. Listen and repeat the numbers.
2. Get the students to learn how to read the numbers: thousand, billion, and million.
【设计意图】
本活动旨在训练学生听辨和表述大数字的能力。
Step8 Check the statements you agree with.
Ask the Ss to check the right statements according to their opinion.
Work in groups and discuss your answers.
Ask each group to present their findings.
【设计意图】
本活动属于听力后的输出活动。采用开放的方式，培养学生的口语表达能力。
Step9 Homework
1. Practice with your classmates to speak and write large numbers.
2.Write some number cars and put them in your room. Whenever you see, read them quickly.
教学反思
本单元学习冠词和大数字的相关用法和读法。教师在开展活动1和活动2时可以做一些铺垫，比如教授大数字的读法，为学生理解后面的对话作好准备。
课件23张PPT。Do you know how many people there are
in the world now?7 billion One day, the world will be like this. How about China?It’s about 1.37 billion.A baby girl named Danica Camacho born in Philippine capital Manila, has been chosen symbolically(象征性地) as the world's seven billionth baby. List of continents by population 1 Work in pairs. Look at the picture and talk about it. Use the words in the box to help you. noise people
space traffic2 Listen and choose the correct answer:1 What is the population of Beijing?
a) About 11 million
b) About 13 million
c) About 20 million
2 What is the population of Chongqing?
a) About 28 million
b) About 33 million
c) About 36 million√√Babies born every minute in the world:
Babies born every year in the world:
Population of China:
Population of the world:
Now complete the notes.over 250over 131.4 millionabout 1.37 billionabout 7 billion4 Choose the correct answer.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 wait for a short time / a long time.7 A report is a long piece of writing / a few words.
8 A billion is a hundred / a thousand million.5 Making notes means writing a long passage / a few words.
6 A problem is something easy / difficult. Pronunciation and speaking5 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-eight1,370,000,000
one billion, three hundred and seventy million
2,000,030,000
two billion and thirty thousand6 Check (√) the statements you agree with.1 There are too many people in the world.
2 The increasing population is the biggest problem in the world.
3 People should not have too many babies.
4 A city should not hold more than one million people.
Now work in groups and discuss your answers. 一、翻译下列句子。1. 北京人口是多少？ _______ ____the _________ ____Beijing? 2. 中国的人口大约为13亿。 The _________ ____China _____
_____ ___________.What is population of population of is
about 1.3 billion4. 增长的人口给一些国家带来众多问题。 An __________ __________ causes
______ ______in some _____ . 3. 人口太多，空间不够。 There are______ ______people and there
is not _______ ______. too much
enough spaceincreasing population many problems countries( ) 1. The bike cost me ________ yuan.
A five hundred and forty
B five hundreds forty C five hundred forty
D five hundred forty A ( ) 2. ____ people in the world are sending and
receiving e-mails every day. A. Million of B. Many millions of
C. Several million of D. Several millionsB二、单项选择。( ) 3. _______ trees were planted on the
mountain last year.
A. Thousands of B. Thousand of
C. Five thousand of D. Five thousands.A ( ) 4. ---Can you write the number eighty-five
thousand, six hundred and twenty-six?
---Yes, it is __________.
A. 856620 B. 85626
C. 58662 D. 58626B 5 _______ is the population of your country?
A. How many???? B. How much????
C. Which??? D. What
6 As time goes on, the world’s population
is _________. A. more and more??????????
B. larger and larger C. smaller and smaller??
? ?D. fewer and fewer
BD7. People shouldn’t have ____ babies.
A. too much B. much too
C. too many D. number of
8. He?eats?____?food,?so?he?is?____fat.? A.?too?many; too?much??
B.?too?many; much?too? C.?too?much; too?much
D. too?much;?much?too CD9. _____ of the room _____ empty.
A. Two-third, are
B. Two-thirds, are
C. Two- third, is
D. Two-thirds, is
10. There are _____ books in the National Library.
A. twenty millions
B. twenty million of
C. twenty million
D. twenty millions ofDCHomework Practice with your classmates to speak and
write large numbers.
Write some number cars and put them in
your room. Whenever you see, read them
quickly.
