Period:42

I. Objectives:
1.Educational aim: Students should write descriptions of pie charts
2.General knowledge: Students learn how to write a descriptions of a chart
- Language: students should interpret statistics on population from a chart
- New words: Words related to the topic
3. Skills: Writing descriptions of pie charts
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book, notebook,
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

Warm up

Books closed
T shows Ss a pie or a piece of paper with
a pie and asks questions:
T: What’s this?
T: Yes, it’s a pie cake. It’s round. Now
look at what I am doing.
T: Yes, I am dividing it into parts. What
do you think about the parts?
T: Now open your books and you can see
another one. This chart is round so it is a
pie chart. Are the patts in the pie chart
equal?

Ss practice writing in groups of 3 or 4.
Ss present their writing on the board.

Suggested paragraph(1)
The chart shows the distribution of
world population by region. It can be
seen from the chart that the world
population is distributed unevenly in
the South-East Asia. It accounts for
- nearly half of
- rank first / last
T instructs Ss how to use Useful
language to describe the chart
T goes round the class and provide help
when necessary
T gives some suggested sentences :
- The world population is not distributed
evenly / is distributed unevenly.
- The South Asia ranks first with 32% / (
The South Asia has the most people / has
the largest population).
- Very few people live in the Oceania. /
The Oceania is the least populated / The
Oceania has the least population.
- Less than that in South Asia is East
Asia with only 26%.
- Africa and Europe have fewer people
with 11% for the former and 15% for the
later.
- Compared with the Oceania which

with only 11%.
Europe.

T corrects mistakes and gives suggested
answer.
T asks Ss to write a paragraph of their
own at home
To sum up, more people are found in
Asia than in other parts of the world. Homework:
- write a paragraph at home
- Prepare for LANGUAGE FOCUS