China par 4

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

At the end of the lesson

-You are able to describe the water shortage and come up ith solutions.

Language aims: You understand the phrase groundwater exhaustion in relation to the word aquifer.

Do your own research answering these questions:
READ PARAGRAPH 4 FIRST

1.What is the problem in the North of China?

2.What causes it?

3.What are the effects?

4.What is the solution?

(write it down in your notebook)

Now fill it in in the next couple slides

1.What is the problem in the North of China?

2.What causes it?

3.What are the effects?

4.What is the solution?

WATERSHORTAGES-Causes

Causes of the watershortages:

  1. Prosperity growth

  2. Rapid urban population growth

  3. Evaporation due dams an irrigation

The water is also very polluted

AQUIFER

And underground water-bearing layer

Open page 79 in your coursebook:

GROUND-WATER EXHAUSTION

Watershortages- Effects 

• Surface water is running out
• Groundwater/aquifer is
  running out
• Subsidence

Aquifer

Solution

South-to-north

diversion

project

To do: 

Paragraph 4 exercises 3 to 8.

Challenge? Create a map of China including the water situation. Make sure the causes, effects and solution are on it!

Smog is a problem in many Chinese cities.

Causes and measures:

1 more and more cars

 make ‘cleaner’ cars compulsory

2 factories and coal-fired power stations filters or make chimneys taller

3 coal-fired heating in homes connect to gas

To do:

Exercise 1 and 2. + 10

Done? Create your own crossword puzzle of paragraph 4 using: https://crosswordlabs.com/. Once it is finished swap with someone else!

Check your answers