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Unit 6. Describing Places 2007. I. Objectives. To learn how to describe a country in terms of population, language, area and location To learn to talk about the weather and climate To understand the different diagrams of statistics Writing discourse: finding out irrelevant sentence.
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Unit 6 DescribingPlaces 2007
I. Objectives • To learn how to describe a country in terms of population, language, area and location • To learn to talk about the weather and climate • To understand the different diagrams of statistics • Writing discourse: finding out irrelevant sentence
Research work • How does climate shape our daily life? (Psychology, Thinking, behaviour) • Interactions between climate changes and the affection of our emotions
III. Topics • Different countries • The weather in my hometown • My hometown’s geographical features
IV. Vocabulary • Geographical names p.304-305 • Names of countries, nationalities and languages p.310-311 • Words about the geographical location P. 328-329 • Words about weather reports P. 330-331 • Words about weather condition p. 335-337 • Words about climate P.338-340
V. Grammar Numbers to a million and numbers to a billion — how to read. • Prepositions used in the description of location & weather. • Verbs with irregular past tense and past participle forms
VI. Word Formation • Names of countries, languages, person (sing. & pl.) and nation. (p.310-311)
Day One • What kind of information must be involved in the description of a country? • Its name; • Its location and neighbors; • Its climate • Its area • Its population • Its language • Its geographical features • Its economic features (industry/agriculture)
2.2 Geographical names • typography.ppt
3. Chinese place names • Wades_Giles_system_conversion_table.doc
Day Two • Word formation.doc
Exception ∎the Danes (used in newspaper headlines) the Danish people (used in the daily life) ∎ He is a Finn/They are Finns (used in newspaper headlines) He is Finnish/They are Finnish (used in the daily life)
Nation: people in land under single government:a community of people or peoples who live in a defined territory and are organized under a single government
2.1 Language work Population: • The population of ____ is _______. • ____’s population is _________. • ______ is inhabited by ________ people. • ______ has ________ inhabitants.
2.1 Language work Population (ranking): • ______ is the first/second/third largest country in the world/Asia/Europe in/as regards/in regard to/regarding population. • ______ ranks first/second in the world in population. • ______ has the largest number of inhabitants. Its population is approximately the same as the populations of _____ and _____ put together.
2.1 Language work Area: • ____ covers an area of _______. • The area of ____ is _______. • ____ is a large country with an area of ____. • ______ is inhabited by ________ people. • ______ has ________ inhabitants.
2.1 Language work Area (ranking): • The country with the largest area is________. • The country which has the second largest area is ___. • ______ ranks fifth in the world in/as regards/in regard to/regarding population. • ______ is the tenth largest country in the world in area. • ______ ranks among the five largest countries in the world, with an area larger than _____ but smaller than _____.
4 Pie chart Percentage: • To make up • To account for • To amount to • To occupy • To have _% of the world’s population/area
Day Three Questions: • — Which state has the largest population/area? • — Which has the next/second largest? • — The population/area of California is larger/smaller than that of Texas. So it should rank higher/lower. • — We don’t want Ohio here. Its population/area does not come into the five largest. • — What percentage of the total does the population/area of Californiamake up/account for? • — What about that of Texas?
3.2 Listening to Geographical descriptions • 1. Austria lies to the east of Switzerland. • 2. France is next to Italy to the west. • 3. Germany lies directly to the south of Denmark. • 4. The Netherlands is situated to the north of Belgium. • 5. Greece is next to Bulgaria to the south. • 6. Russia is located to the east of Finland. • 7. Slovakia lies between Poland and Hungary. • 8. Italy is next to France to the Southeast.
Day Four • Weather and Climate
Weather & Climate Weather: state of the atmosphere: the state of the atmosphere with regard to temperature, cloudiness, rainfall, wind, and other meteorological conditions Climate:METEOROLOGY typical weather in region: the average weather or the regular variations in weather in a region over a period of years