Consolidation Speaking activities Warm-up CONTENT

WARM-UP Answer following questions 1)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?

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 enough lack 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 OverpopulationProblemsSolutions

HOMEWORK  Practice all tasks in your textbook  Write a short paragraph about problems caused by overpopulation and solutions to them