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课件网) Module 9 Population Unit 1 The population of China is about 1.37 billion. (第二课时) 单词热身 noise n. 噪声;杂音 prepare v. 准备;预备 notes n. (pl.)笔记;随笔 report n. 报告;汇报 grow v. 增长;增大 huge adj. 巨大的;庞大的 cause v. 造成;引起 problem n. 麻烦;问题 increase n. 增大;增长 v. 增大;增长 birth n. 出生 billion num. 十亿 fifth num. 第五;五分之一 What is the population of Beijing?北京的人口是多少? 询问一个地方的人口数量和作相应回答时,用以下几种表达 问:How large is the population in xxx What is the population of xxx 答:There are about seven million people. The population of xxx is about seven million./ xxx has a population of about seven million. 南京的人口是多少? _____ _____ _____of Nanjing 重点句型 What’s the population 2. I’m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population”. 我正在为一份叫做《我们不断增长的人口》的报告准备一些笔记。 (1) prepare A for B 为B而准备A 如:He is preparing his lessons for the coming test. 他正在为即将来临的考试而准备功课。 (2) a report called “Our growing population” 一份叫做《我们不断增长的人口》的报告 called 过去分词作定语,修饰前面的名词report,意为被叫做 如:a boy called Tom一个叫做汤姆的男孩. 我们在为明天的野餐准备食物。 We _____ _____ _____ _____ tomorrow’s picnic. are preparing food for 3. Beijing is a huge city with a large population. 北京是一个很大的城市,人口众多。 “with + n. / pron.”结构作后置定语,修饰前面的名词。 如:China is a big country with a long history. 中国是一个历史悠久的大国。 4. Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world 你知道全世界每分钟有多少个婴儿出生吗? how many babies are born every minute in the world 在这里作动词know的宾语,是一个宾语从句。 如:Do you know how many students there are in my class 你知道我的班上有多少学生吗? 5. That’s almost one fifth of the world’s population, that is, about 7 billion. 那几乎是世界人口(约70亿)的五分之一。 one fifth 五分之一 (1)英语的分数通常用“基数词+序数词”表示,其中分子用基数词表示,分母用序数词表示,如果分子大于1,分母要用复数形式。 如:You can have _____of the money. 你可以拿这些钱的四分之一。 _____of the students are from the north. 五分之二的学生是北方人。 one fourth Two fifths (2)分数作主语时,后面接复数名词,谓语动词用复数形式;后面接不可数名词,谓语动词用单数形式。 如: Three fifths of the students in our class _____from Foshan. 我们班五分之三的学生是佛山人。 One fourth of the food is bad, but three fourths of the food____fresh. 四分之一的食物坏了,但四分之三的食物还是新鲜的。 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ are from Guangdong. 十一分之三的同学是来自广东的。 are is Three elevenths of the students 6. Hang on a minute! I’ll write that down too! 等等,我要把这点也记下来! (1)hang on a minute = wait a minute 等一下;请稍等 如:Hang on! I’ll be back in a minute. 稍等!我马上就回来。 (2)write down意为“写下,记下”,如果以人称代词作宾语,则宾语要放在短语中间。 如:Please write it down on the paper ... ...