Step by Step2000 Unit 5 Colorful Lands, Colorful People

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Unit 5 Colorful Lands, Colorful People

PART I Warming up

A. Key words:

country population census¹ estimate rank

Vocabulary:

census estimate federation² statistics

_______________

Indonesia Pakistan Bangladesh Nigeria

You are going to hear some sentences telling you the 12 most populous³ countries in the word. Listen carefully and supply the missing information. Pay special attention to the numbers.

Country Population

1. China ___________

2. India ___________

3. the United States ___________

4. Indonesia ___________

5. Brazil ___________

6. Russian Federation ___________

7. Pakistan ___________

8. Japan ___________

9. Bangladesh ___________

10. Nigeria __________

11. Mexico ___________

12. Germany ___________

B: Key words:

speaker language

Vocabulary:

_______________

Bengali Hindi Portuguese⁴ Javanese Korean Vietnamese Telugu Marathi Tamil Urdu

Gujarati Ukrainian

In the following passage. You are going to hear the names of some languages and the numbers of native speakers of these languages. Listen carefully and fill in the missing languages and numbers.

Languages Speakers

1. ______________ _______________

2. ______________ _______________

3. ______________ _______________

4. Bengali _______________

5. Hindi _______________

6. Portuguese _______________

7. ______________ _______________

8. ______________ _______________

9. ______________ _______________

10. Javanese _______________

11. ______________ _______________

12. ______________ _______________

13. ______________ _______________

14. Telugu _______________

15. Marathi _______________

16. Tamil _______________

17. _______________ _______________

18. Urdu _______________

19. Gujarati _______________

20. _______________ _______________

21. _______________ _______________

22. Ukrainian _______________

PART II The world’s six billionth inhabitant

Key words:

Baby boy, Bosnia-Herzegovina the world’s six billionth inhabitant,Social and ecological⁵ problems birth control ,Global count, humanity

Vocabulary:

overnight inhabitant deliver symbolize⁶ ecological

acclaim⁷ momentum⁸ impact demographer⁹ predict

count level off agency

Bosnia-Herzegovina the United Nations Kosovo Sarajevo

The UN secretary General

A:

Now listen to a news report on the worlds six billionth inhabitant. Answer the following questions by supplying the missing information.

1. Who is the word’s six billionth inhabitant?

______________ born in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2. What’s the UN Secretary General’s purpose in visiting the mother and the child?

To draw attention to the __________ and _________ problems of rapidly expanding_______.

3. According to the UN population agency, how different are people’s lives now from those in the past?

People are living ________ and ____________ lives than any generation in the history.

B:

Now listen to the passage again. After that, three sentence chosen from the passage will be read to you. Listen carefully and match Column A, the numbers, with Column B, the relevant information.

Column A Column B

1. 1,000,000,000+ a. population in the middle of the new century

2. 80,000,000 b. number of young people entering their productive years now

3. 10,000,000,000- c. number of babies to be born next year

C:

Now listen to a faster presentation of the material. Check your answers.

Part III the biggest cities in the world

Key words: the biggest cities the top ten developed countries and developing countries.

Vocabulary:

Complex enormous mere¹⁰ in terms of quadruple trble sao qaulo rio de janeiro calcutta bombay delhi seoul

A: you are going to hear a conversation between an interviewer and an expert about the biggest citied in the world, while listening , facus on the numbers and complete the two charts below.

In 1950 position in top 10 population

New york 1

London

Calcutta 4 million

Tokyo 6 million

in 2000 position in top 10 population

New york 14 million

Calcutta 4 million

Tokyo 3

B; now listen to the conversation a gain and try to find out the other seven cities whose population is likely to be In the top 2000.

The other severn citied in the top ten in 2000:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Part IV language study and language appreciation¹¹

Listen to the following statements. Pay special attention to the parts in bold type. Learn to appreciate and use the language.