Period:41

I. Objectives: By the end of thin lesson, Ss will be able to listen to the story
betweeen an inteviewer and Dr Brown about world population
Ss will be able to complete some exercises : T/F statements , multiple choice
II. Language focus:
*Vocabulary: Latin America, developing countries, improvement, particularly
Inexpensive, rank, generation
*Skills: Listening comprehension
III. Teaching aids: Text book ,cassette player, poster
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Checking the old lesson:
- T calls on 2 sts to interview each other
- interview each other about the causes
of overpopulation and give the
about the causes of overpopulation and
give the solutions to them.
- T gives comments and marks
Before you listen(10m)
Discussing the questions
-Ask Ss to discuss the questions on page
84 in pairs
- Call on some Ss to give their answers
and comments on the answers
- Get Ss to guess what they are going to
listen about
While you listen
Task 1(10m)
Instruction: You are going to listen to Dr
Brown talk about the world population.
While listening, choose the best answer
A,B,C or D to complete the statements or
answer the questions.
- Get Ss to read the statements and
questions carefully and work out what
information they need to concentrate on
while listening. Then check with whole
class
- Gets Ss to read the options in each
question and underline the words that
make them different
- Developing countries:C¸c níc
ph¸t triÓn
- Rank(v,n): XÕp h¹ng, thø h¹ng
- Fall(n): Sù gi¶m
- Generation(n): ThÕ hÖ
- Shortage(n): Sù thiÕu Individual work, group work and
whole class

1. It will be over 7 billion
2. The population growth rates in
some part of the world are not the
same
3. The reason is the improvement of
public health services and medical
care
4. They are shortage of foods, lack of
hospitals and school, illiteracy, and
poor living conditions
5. The experts offered four solutions:
+ to educate people and make them
aware of the danger of having more
children
+ to provide safe, inexpensive birth -
control methods

After you listen(8m)
- T gets Ss to work in groups to orally
summarise the main ideas of the
listening passage. T might give Ss
some cues base their summary on:
+ world population today
+world population by 2010
+ main cause of population explosion
+problems caused by population
explosion
+ solutions to the problems
- Encourage Ss to use transition signals
to make their summary more coherent