教学目标与要点
1．掌握且能熟练运用有关人口的问答：What’s the population of…? It’s about…
2．能快速、正确地表达任何一个数字，且能书写正确。
3．掌握本单元的词汇和短语的用法，特别是hour after hour, prefer to…rather than…, be busy doing, faster and faster等的用法。
4．学习过去将来时态的构成和用法，掌握它的否定式、肯定式、疑问式及其简略答语，及它用于宾语从句中与主句时态的关系。
5．认真学习"Standing room only"，明白控制人口迅速增长的重要性，设想一下有哪些方案可以缓解人口的快速增长。
Lesson 49
Period: The First Period
Content: Lesson 49
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; flashcards.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Let the students say the numbers.
2. Learn some new words and useful expressions.
Language focus: population, million, billion, increase, grow, What’s the population of Germany?
Teaching Procedures:
I. Showing tile teaching aims
II. Revision
Revise the numbers between 1 and 100.
III. Presentation
Use flashcards or numbers on the blackboard to revise one hundred, present a thousand in the same
way. Then present ten thousand/ a hundred thousand/ a million and a billion
Give the students plenty of practice in reading these numbers. Point out the differences between
English and Chinese for 10 000 and 100 000.
IV. Drill
Part 1. Play the tape for the students to listen and repeat. Show numbers on the blackboard, to give
the students more practice in saying the numbers.
V. Presentation
Present more difficult numbers, then go through the model. Point out how commas are used. Let
the students try to say the numbers in this exercise. Hay the tape for the students to listen and repeat.
VI. Practice
Part 3, using a map of the world, go through contents of the table. Learn the meaning of population.
For example:
1. Our city has a population of two billion.
2. What’s the population of Tianjin?
3. China has the largest population of the world.
Ask the students some questions, using the model given, e.g.: What’s the population of…? What about the population of…? Finally, get the students to ask and answer
in pairs.
VII. Exercises in class
Let the students do enough practice in reading the numbers.
Have a dictation.
1. What’s the population of France? About fifty - eight million.
2. The worlds population was about 5 300 million in 1990.
3. Nine billion, eight hundred and seventy - three million, four hundred and twenty - five thousand, two hundred and sixty - one.
Work in groups
Show a picture of the numbers of World’s population. Teacher speak out the names of country or city, and ask the students speak out each
number one by one in their group. And then ask the other group to practise this again. Whose
sound is correct and clearly? Whose number reading is best?
VIII. Homework
1. Revise the numbers
2. Make five partners in asking the population.
Lesson 50
Period: The Second Period
Content: Lesson 50
Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures.
Teaching Objectives:
1. Understand the text.
2. Learn some useful words and phrases.
Language Focus: room, hour after
say:
Today we’re going to read about the world’s population. The world’s population is growing very fast. It is a big and serious problem. Can you tell me the reasons? Let
the students discuss and help them answer with: “There isn’t enough food, work for too many people. There aren’t enough houses…” etc.
