Unit 3 Progress 同步课文资料 Objectives A.Reading and interaction ·Explain the influence of globalization on people’s lives B.Grammar activity ·Use the verb-ing form as the adverbial correctly in the given context C.Listening and speaking ·Express personal ideas about a business project D.Writing ·Write a formal email of enquiry using appropriate language and format E.Cultural focus ·Retell the history of the English language ·Explain the use of English in South Africa and Wakes A.Reading and interaction Pre-reading activity 1.Before you read,choose a foreign country you know.Think about how it is different from or similar to China.Tick one or two aspects below and talk about them in groups. □the buildings □the climate □the language □the food □the music □the clothes □the people □others: 2.Look at the table below.Guess the world population of each year.Then find the information in the passage and complete the table. World population growth Year Number 8000 BCE million 1805 CE billion 1927 2 billion 1987 billion 1999 6 billion 2011 million 2100 million Going global The world’s population reached five billion on the day I was born. That was in Indonesia back in 1987, and my parents were amazed that there were so many people on the planet. However,since then the population has continued to increase at an alarming rate. (at a/an… rate ,以…的速度)In October 2011, the seven billionth baby was born, and experts predict that there will be ten billion of us before the end of this century. A number as big as seven billion is hard to imagine. If you said “hello” to a different person every second, it would take you 222 years to greet everyone on the planet. If seven billion people made a human chain with their hands, the chain would go to the moon and back nine times. The growth of our human population is surprising. For more than two million years, humans moved around, finding plants to eat and hunting animals for meat（此处是现在分词做目的状语；现在分词作状语是本单元的语法新内容）. Then, just 10,000 years ago, we invited agriculture. At that time, there were only about five million humans, but this figure quickly doubled（double此处做不及物动词，表示翻倍）. The population reached a billion in 1805, and since then it has multiplied （multiply adj. 多层的；多样的vt. 乘；使增加；使繁殖；使相乘vi. 乘；繁殖；增加）seven times. Experts believe that about 6% of all the humans that have ever lived are alive right now. The human population has never been bigger, but in some ways the plant seems to be getting significantly （significantly adv. 显著地；相当数量地）smaller. In the past, travellers from Europe to Indonesia spent months at sea. Now you just have to sit on a plane for a few hours. When you arrived in another country a hundred years ago, you saw unfamiliar styles of clothing and buildings and discovered a completely different culture. In many places today, clothing and new buildings are very similar, and people enjoy the same sports,mu ... ...
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