Unit 12:An overcrowded world
Looking back & Project
VOCABULARY:
Act 1: Match the words with their definitions.
Busy
Poor
Peaceful
Spacious
Overcrowded
Too many people.
To have very little money.
Calm and quiet.
A large area where it is easy to move.
A lot of things happening.
Act 2: Write the sentence for each of the following words.
Example:
Crime is a problem in big cities.
Crime
Disease
Healthcare
Education
Poverty
1.


2.


3.


4.


5.
When people need money badly, they
may commit crime.
Good healthcare helps people to stay
healthy and to live longer.
Disease dpreads more quickly in
overcrowded areas.
In most big cities, there are many
wealthy people, but poverty still a problem.
In the public school system, education
is compulsory from age six to age sixteen.
II. Grammar:
Act 3: Put an appropriate tag question at the end of each sentence. Then match the questions to their answers.
Question
Answers
1. We have more tourists this year, ?
2. You got stuck in a traffic jam on the way home,
, Mum?
3. There will be a solution to this shortage of clean water, ?
4. We should do something to reduce poverty,
?
5. Big cities suffer more from air pollution, ?
a) No, there are fewer than last year.
b) Yes, they do, particularly big cities in China.
c) We hope there will.
d) Yes, we should.
But how?
e) Yes, as always, dear.
don’t we
did’t you
won’t it
don’t they
shouldn’t we
Act 4: Look at the situation and complete the effects with more, fewer and less.
Situation: A new factory will be built in my neighborhood.

The factory will bring jobs to local people.


people will move here to work in the factory.


These people will need water and electricity.


4. There will be space for children to play.
more
More
more
less
Comunication:
5. I’ve got more!!
Work in groups. Look at the situations and talk about their possible effects.
Example:
Situation: A cousin is moving in to share your room for two months.
Effects: - I will lose my privacy.
- We can have more fun.
- I will have less space of my own.
Situation 1: The karaoke next to your house is attracting more and more young people coming.
Situation 2: A flea market has been established in your neighbourhood.


Finished. Now I can…
. Use words to describe overcrowded
Places and the effects of overcrowding.
. Form comparisons of quantifiers.
. Use tag question.
. Write about the population change,


Project :
The world we live in
I . Devide the class into groups of four or five .
Each group searches for an under – populated place.
Note down some facts about the place :
Which place it is ?
What life is like there ?
What can be the cause (s) of this small population?
II . Then each group presents their project to the class.
Thank you for your attention .
Good bye
and see you next time .