Language Y8A 22/12

Language Y8A 22/12

by Ilja Paramonovs

​Vocabulary

Math - alternate, intersection, congruent

Social - gold, latitude, longitude

Science - emitted, renewable, run out

Health - medicine, insulin, patient

Language - compete, praise, prepare

​Unit 7 review

​The worlds population reached five billion on 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. In October 2011, the seven billionth baby was born, and expert estimate that there will be ten billion of us before the end of the century.

​Unit 7 review

​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.

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​The growth of human population is extraordinary. For more than two million years, humans lived with no permanent home, finding plants to eat and hunting animals for meat. Then Just 10,000 years ago we invented agriculture. At that time there were only about five million humans, but this figure quickly doubled. The population reached a billion in 1805, and since then it has multiplied seven times. One expert has calculated that about 6% of all the humans that have ever lived are alive right now.

​Unit 7 review

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​Unit 7 review

Open Ended

1. How long would it take to say "hello" to all people on the planet?

2. Why did population started to grow quickly after 8,000 BC?

3. In what ways is the planet getting smaller, according to the writer?

4. How many languages does the writer speak?

5. Why are languages disappearing around the world?

6. Does the writer prefer to live in a world with no cultural differences?

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1. end = final part/ purpose

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2. second = each of the sixty parts of a minute/ between first and third

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3. figure = the shape of a human body/ a number

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4. way = path or road/method

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5. present = gift/now

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6. country = nation/ land that is outside towns and cities

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7. time = how often we do something/period

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8. race = group of people/ competition