初三 Unit 13 The world's population 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.