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

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 langu

ages p.310-311 Words about the geographical location P. 32

8-329 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 are

a. ______ 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 t

han 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/are

a of California make 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