The nature of English
.docThe nature of English-speaking countries
Handout 1
continent
area
capital
population
inhabitant
indigenous
border (to border on)
to be washed by
to locate (to be located in)
hemisphere
strait
mountain range
peak
Handout 2
Give the corresponding words for the following definitions.
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… - a person who lives in a town or country
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… - situate in a particular place
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… - a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth
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… - a line separating two countries
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… - a narrow passage of water connecting two seas
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… - a chain of mountains
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… - one of the earth's large land masses (Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, and Antarctica)
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… - a region or part of a town, a country, or the world
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… - all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
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… - a half of a sphere (the earth)
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… - the pointed top of a mountain
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… - the most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center
Handout 3 Fact file
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The UK |
The USA |
Canada |
Australia |
New Zealand |
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Official name of the country |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
the United States of America |
Canada is a country in North America. |
the Commonwealth of Australia |
New Zealand |
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Capital city |
London |
Washington |
Ottawa |
Canberra |
Wellington |
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Large cities |
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth |
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelpia |
Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver |
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth |
are Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson.
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Borders |
Republic of Ireland |
Canada to the north, and Mexico to the south. |
USA |
Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea |
New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga.
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Washed by seas and oceans |
Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, English Channel, and the Irish Sea. |
Atlantic Ocean. Pacific Ocean |
Pacific Ocean. Atlantic Ocean. Arctic Ocean |
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The total area |
243,610 square kilometers |
more than 3.5 million square miles |
At 9.98 million square kilometers in total |
The area of this country is 7,687,000 square kilometers. |
The total land area is around 270 550 square kilometres |
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Population |
The total population of the United Kingdom is around 63,182,000 |
The population is 317 million people |
The population of Canada is about 25 million people |
Nearly 20 million people live in Australia. |
The total population of New Zealand is 4.5. |
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Inhabitants |
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Mountains |
Pennine |
The Appalachians |
The Cordillera region |
Kimbеrley. Hamerslay |
Southern Alps. |
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The highest peak |
Ben Nevis |
Alaska's Mount McKinley |
Logan. Mount McKinley (Denali). |
Kosciusko |
Cook |
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Rivers |
Thames |
Colorado, Columbia, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and the Rio Grande.
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the Great Bear Lake, the Great Slave Lake and the Great Lakes District. The largest rivers are the Nelson, the Ottawa, the Mackenzie and the Yukon.
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Murray. Darling |
Clutha Waikato. |