Learning Aims

1.Master: area, Russian, mountain

2.Understand: square, kilometre, geographical, feature, Mount Everest, the Yangtze River, Tokyo.

3.Practice: the numbers.

AsiaEuropeNorth America

South America

AfricaAntarctica

OceaniaThe continents of the world

Asia

ChinaJapan

India

Do you know other countries in Asia?

area

Countries

population

languages

geographical feature

the biggest city

How much do you know about Asia?

More than 44 million square kilometres.More than forty. China, Japan, India and others. China is the biggest in area and population.More than three billion. That ‘s more than half of the world’s population

Chinese, Russian, Japanese and many other languages.

Mount Qomolangma ( Mount Everest), the Yangtze River

Shanghai, Tokyo

country

area

population

capital city

language

China Japan India

129 533 12 678 102 700

Chinese

Japanese

IndianBeijing Tokyo New Delhi

9 600 000 2 974 700 377 800

The Great Wall is the world-famous. It is in China.

Fuji Mountain is very beautiful. It’s in Japan

India is an old country. It has a long history.

Writing

Describe Asia. You may talk about the population, the area, the main rivers and cities, the places of interest and so on.

I. Choose the best answers:

( ) 1. -____ is China? – It’s 9 600 000 square kilometers.

A. How big B. How much C. What’s D. How long

( ) 2.China is the biggest country ____ area and population in Asia.

A. at B. in C. about D. for

( ) 3.The Yangtze River is the ______ river in the world.

A. third long B. third longer

C. third longest D. three longest

Let’s do the exercises:

A

B

C

II . Fill in the blanks.

1. Asia covers _______________________ ( 44 百万多） square kilometres.

2. Shanghai and Tokyo are _______________ ( 两个最大的 ) cities in Asia.

3. The Great Wall is _______________( 世界著名） .

4. The population of China is _____________ ( 最多 ) in the world.

more than 44 million

two of the biggest

world-famous

the largest