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Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION
Lesson A: READING
Teaching objectives:
Help students understand the content of the lesson.
Help students understand the new words and use them in context.
Teaching method:
Communicative Approach
Teaching aids:
Chalks, cassettes, pictures
Teaching procedures:
time
Teacher and students’ activities
contents

5 mims
Warm-up
- Ask students to look at the pictures in their books and answer the questions:
Are all the people in the same family?
Is it good to have many children?
What will happen if every family have a lot of children?
- Ss: - Give answers.






Read silently.
Listen and take notes
Pair work with task 1
Gives sts some new words :
Figure [`figə] : con số
Improvement [im`pru:vmənt] (n): sự tiến bộ
Double [`dʌbl] (a): gấp hai lần
Amount [ə`maunt] (n) : lượng, số lượng
Resource [ri`sɔ:s ; ri`zɔ:s] (n) : ( số nhiều) tài nguyên
To upport [sə`pɔ:t] (v) : nuôi nấng, cấp dưỡng
Increase [`inkri:s] (v) : tăng lên, tăng thêm, lớn thêm
Limit [`limit] (v) : giới hạn, hạn chế
Growth [grouθ] (n) : sự gia tăng
Birth -control [`bə:θkən`troul] (n) sự sinh đẻ có kế hoạch
B.C: Before Christ
A.D: Anno Domini
to limit: to restrict
to freeze – froze – frozen
population (n)
→ population growth
→ population explosion
support (v, n)
limit (n,v)
decrease >< increase


- Give feedback.
- Answers.



- Although
- method
- increases
- resources
- figures
- limit
- international
- control


Group work (Task 2)
Take notes.
It was 10 million people in 10,000 B.C, 625 million people in 1750, 1,300 million people in 1850, 2,510 million people in 1950, 4,760 million people in 1985 and 6,6 billion people in 2000.
The population of the world is expected to be 7 billion.
Some scientists say it can, but others say it can’t.
No, they don’t.
They can’t limit the size of their family because they know of no safe way to have fewer children.

Post-reading (7 minutes)

- Give the answers.



The population of the world has been (1) ____________ faster.
It’s time government and international organizations (2) ____________ something to (3) ____________ the problem.
- Work in pairs.
- Perform in front of the class.
- Ask students to find out five world largest countries in population, say where they are and which is the richest and which is the poorest country.
Ss:
- Work in pairs.
- Do as suggested.
- Give feedback.
Suggested answers

Location:
China, India and Indonesia are in Asia, Russia is in Europe, and the USA is in Latin America.

The richest country is the USA and the poorest country may be India.










Five world largest countries in population:
China, India, Russia, the USA, and Indonesia.



Homework
Write down the questions and the answers in the notebooks.
Learn the new words and questions by heart.
Prepare in advance Part B - Speaking.
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Unit 7: WORLD POPULATION
Lesson B: SPEAKING

Teaching objectives:
Help students improve their speaking skill. Students can discuss the topic (some causes of population explosion, the problems it has caused and the solutions)
Teaching method:
Communicative approach
Teaching aids:
Pictures, chalks, cassettes, textbook
Teaching procedures:

time
Teacher and students’ activities
contents


Warm –up:
- Teacher asks students some questions.
Is population explosion a big problem nowadays?
What are some causes of population explosion?
Ss: Give answers
- Look at Task 1 and give your opinion.

- Introduce Task 1 and give the meaning of some news words (if necessary )
- Ask students to do Task 1 in pairs.
- Give feedback and correct mistakes if necessary.
Task 1:
Ss:
- Work in pairs
- Give their presentation.
- Ask students to do Task 2 in pairs .
Example
People in these countries have poor living conditions.