consolidation speaking activities warm-up content
TRANSCRIPT
SPEAKING
Consolidation
Speaking activities
Warm-up
CONTENT
WARM-UPAnswer following questions1) How many children do your parents
have?2) Do you want to have more or fewer?
Why?3) Do you know any families that have
more than 5 or 10 children nowadays?4) In your opinion, what are the causes
to population explosion?
SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
Task 1: Work in pairs. Put some following causes of population explosion in order of importance and explain why.
Fewer children die at birth.People are not aware of the problem of overpopulation.People are not properly educated.People believe that having many children means happiness.Religion doesn’t encourage people to have fewer children.Many people believe that having a large family is a form of insurance.
Useful expressions to give opinion
• In my opinion,…• As for me,…• As far as I’m concerned,…• From my point of view,…• It seems to me that…
Work in groups of four. List the problems facing poor and overpopulated countries. Then report your results to the class.
Task 2
Useful language
poor
low
not enoughlack of/ shortage
of
living conditions
living standards
food
school / hospital /teacher / doctor / nurse…
Work in groups of four. Work out the solutions to the problems of overpopulation. Then report your results to the class.
Task 3
Useful language• an awareness of the
problems of overpopulation
• living standards reward and punishment
policies• population education
programmes• family planning
programmes birth control methods
Raise
exercise /
implement
Carry out
use
Work in groups of four. Talk about the problems of overpopulation and offer solutions, using the results of task 2 and 3.
Task 4
Transitional signals
• Firstly / secondly / thirdly / … / lastly,…
• To begin with,…• Next,…• In addition / additionally /
moreover / …• However / nevertheless / …• On the other hand / in contrast /
…• Last but not least,…
CONSOLIDATION
Overpopulation
Problems
Solutions
HOMEWORK
Practice all tasks in
your textbook
Write a short paragraph about problems caused by overpopulation and solutions to them
THANKS FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!