八年级英语上册M9u1

9Unit 1 The population of China is about 1.37 billion.

Do you know how many people are there in the world now?

7 billion

One day, the world will be like this.

How about China?

China's Population - Overview

It’s about 1.37 billion.

Teaching aims1.Grasp the key words and key structure:noise, prepare, notes, report, grow, problem, birth, billion, fifth; Beijing is a huge city with a large population. That makes over 131.4 million births a year.

2. Reading aim:To be able to read and understand large numbers.

3. Affection:we should care more about the population problems of our country.

Words and expressions噪声;杂音 n. /n Iz / 准备；预备 v. /prI'pe / 笔记；随 笔 n.(pl.) /n uts / 报告；汇报 n. /rI'p :t / /ɡr u / (grew /ɡru:)增长；增大 v. 巨大的；庞大的 adj. /hju:d / /k :z / 造成；引起 v.

noise prepare notes report grow huge cause

/'pr bl m / /'I kri:s / /b :θ/ /'bIlj n / /fIfθ/ hang on /flæt /

麻烦；问题 n. 增大；增长 n. 增大；增长 v出生 n.

problem increasebirth billion fifth flat

十亿 num.第五；五分之一 num.

稍等套房；公寓 n.

1. Work in pairs. Look at the picture and talk about it. Use the words in the box to help you.noise people

space

traffic

13,000,000 15,000,000 18,000,000 20,000,000

2. Listen and choose the correct answer.1. What’s the population of Beijing? a) About 11 million. b)About 13 million. c) About 20 million.

2. What’s the population of Chongqing?a) About 28 million. b) About 33 million. c) About 36 million.

3. ListeningListen for the first time carefully and find out the answers. 1. What is the big problem in many countries now? 2. How many babies are born every minute?

4. Listen again

Now complete the notes.

Babies born every minute in the world: over 250 Babies born every year in the world: over 131.4 million Population of China: about 1.37 billion Population of the world: about 7 billion

5 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.

5 Making notes means writing a long passage / a few words. 6 A problem is something easy / difficult. 7 A report is a long piece of writing / a few words. 8 A billion is a hundred / a thousand million.

Language points1.population n. 人口 1) population 是一个集体名词，作主语时，若指一 个地区或国家的整体人口，谓语动词通常用单数； The population of the city is about 20,000. 这个城市大约有两万人口。

2) 表示一个地区或一个国家有多少人口时，可用

the population of ... is ... 或 ... has a population of ...。 例如： The population of our country is 28,100,000. 我们国家的人口是二千八百一十万。 The city has a population of 50,000. 这座城市有五万人口。

3) 在询问人口时，通常

用What is the

population of …?来提问，例如：

What’s the population of Canada? 加拿大的人口是多少？ 4)形容“人口数量的多少”可用large 或 small 修饰。 The population of Beijing is large. 北京人口众多。