Population is quite equally distributed all over the earth True or False? FALSE Most of the world's population lives in the Southern Hemisphere True or False? FALSE Almost all people live on a small part of the earth True or False? TRUE Which three countries China, India, and have the largest the United States populations in the world? How many people live in the world? About 6,700,000,000 UNIT Vocabulary: • Latin America • Developing countries • Punishment (hình phạt) ≠ reward • Inexpensive • Rank (xếp hạng) • • • • Explosion (bùng nổ) Fall (giảm) Solution (giải pháp) Improvement (sự cải thiện) • Shortage (sự thiếu) • Implement Task 1: Listen to the expert and decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE According to the expert, there are over 6.7 billion people in the world today The expert says the population of the world increases by 76 million a year The expert says Africa has the highest population growth rate Scientists say that a fall in death rates is the main reason for population explosion One of the problems mentioned by the expert is about living conditions There were four solutions that the expert offered Task 2: Listen again and answer the following questions According to the expert, what will the population of the world be by the year 2015? The population of the world will be over billion What did the expert say about the population growth rates in some parts of the world? The population grows more quickly in some parts of the world than others According to the expert, what is the reason for a fall in the death rates? The improvement of public health services and medical care 4 According to the expert, what problems does population explosion cause to the world, particularly to the developing countries? Shortage of _ food Lack of _ hospitals schools and _ Illiteracy Low living standars _ What are the solutions the expert offered? To educate people and make them aware of the danger of having more children _ birth-control methods To provide safe, inexpensive _ To strictly _ implement a family planning policy exercise strict and fair reward and _ punishment To policies Rate of population growth Reason for the population explosion Problems of the population explosion Solutions to the problems