Unit 5 Colorful lands, colorful people(2)
Objectives:
You are going to hear some sentences telling you the 12 most populous countries in the world.
in the following passage you are going to hear the names of some languages and the numbers of native speakers of these languages. Listen carefully and fill in the missing languages and numbers.
Part I A.
Key words
census人口调查；户口调查
The census enumerated eighty-six persons over one hundred years old in this mountain area.
根据人口调查这一带山区共有八十六
位百岁老人。
estimate 估计
My estimate of his abilities was wrong.
我对他的能力估计错了。
rank等级 分类；分等级
To hold a particular rank:位于占据一个特定的等级
ranked first in the class. 在班上名列前茅
This town ranks high among beauty
spots.
这城市在风景区中享有盛名。
vocabulary
federation联盟；同盟
The small countries joined together into a federation.
小国联合起来组成一个联盟。 联邦政府
statistics统计，统计数字
统计学, 统计表
Indonesia印度尼西亚 Pakistan 巴基斯坦(南亚国家) Bangladesh孟加拉国 Nigeria尼日利亚
You are going to hear some sentences telling you the 12 most populous countries in the world. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 country population 1, 243, 738, 000 955, 220, 000 267, 901, 000 199, 867, 000 159, 884, 000 147, 105, 000 138, 150, 000 125, 638, 000 9 10 11 12 B.
122, 013, 000 118, 369, 000 96, 400, 000 82, 071, 000 Vocabulary
Bengali孟加拉人(语)
:
adj.
孟加拉(人)的
Hindi
: 印地语