2 WHAT IS THE LARGEST

DESERT ON EARTH?

Objectives
By the end of this unit, your pupils will have achieved a greater understanding of the
following concepts:
• the equator, lines of latitude / longitude and the northern / southern hemispheres
• the imperfect sphericity of globes
• the names and locations of the seven continents and five oceans
• the world’s major countries, capital cities and landmarks
• the highest mountains and longest rivers in the world

Competences
This unit covers the following competences:
• Linguistic competence • Learning to learn
• Mathematical competence and basic • Social and civic competences
competences in science and technology • Cultural awareness and expression
• Digital competence

Key vocabulary
Maps and globes: equator, globe, hemisphere, latitude, longitude, map, passport, sphere
World maps: area, continent, ocean, population, sea, surface, surround
Political maps: capital city, government, landmark, locate, temperature, windy
Physical maps: desert, elevation, flow, mountain, mountain range, wide

Cambridge English Qualifications practice

You will find A1 Movers activity types in the following exercises:
Pupil’s Book, Page 28, Activity 1 – Listening Part 2
Pupil’s Book, Page 29, Activity 1 – Reading and Writing Part 1
Activity Book, Page 12, Activity 12 – Reading and Writing Part 3
Throughout this unit, you will find the following A1 Movers vocabulary:
country, difference, different, famous, forest, holiday, hundred, ice, island, lake, map,
mountain, move, place, travel, trip, village, walk, water, world

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Materials needed for Hands on
• balloon • blue paint • newspaper
• glue • paintbrush • water
• needle • outlines of • bowl
• newspaper the continents • coloured pencils

Materials needed for other activities

• large map of the world

Investigate
The Investigate project that runs through this unit encourages pupils to build on the skills they
used in Unit 1 to research and complete their political and physical maps. In this unit, pupils
make their own passports and ‘travel the world’ by adding information to their passports
from their political and physical maps and from the maps of their classmates. The
different Investigate stages focus on the different cultural, political and physical
features of a country, and allow practice of the following skills:
• giving descriptions through writing and speaking
• autonomous research
• presentation of work

Digital Lab
• Interactive activities
• Flashcards: World geography
• Song: Five oceans, seven continents
• Video documentary: Great landmarks of the world

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 UNIT 2 Antarctica is the largest desert on
Earth, at over 14 million square
Because approximately
70% of the Earth’s surface
PAGES 18–19 kilometres. The Sahara Desert is is covered by water.
the largest hot desert on Earth.

Objective
Pupils will be introduced to the
concepts of continents, seas

2 WHAT IS THE LARGEST

and oceans through the idea of
world travel.

DESERT ON EARTH?
Key vocabulary
blue planet ?
aeroplane, continent, ocean, Why is the Earth called the
passport, sea, travel journalist

Warm up
• Explain that this unit is going to feel
like a tour around the world in which
pupils will explore different places,
cultures and peoples. When we visit
new places, we often hear common
greetings. Ask the pupils to tell you
some greetings they have heard
in different countries, e.g. G’day,
mate! in Australia, and Jambo! in avelled abroad?
East Africa. Write these greetings Have you ever tr
in a table on the board, with the
headings Greetings and Places.
Pupils can then play a game where
one pupil says the greeting out
loud and the other has to say which
country it is from. The aim of the
game is to name as many greetings
as possible.

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Pupils’ own answers.

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 Main concepts
• Ask the pupils to imagine that they
are travel journalists and that they
are going to explore some exciting
parts of the world. First, they need
to have a plan. Ask them to draw a
grid with three columns: F = facts
or what they already know; Q =
questions or what they want to
Five oceans, seven conti know; L = what they have learnt.
nents
They should fill in at least three
facts and questions based on what
they have learnt. They should
fill in their Learning at the end of
each lesson.

Learn more
• Ask pupils to research a traditional
tale, myth or legend from one of the
seven continents. They then read
it and write a short summary of it.
They could also list the country,
author and any things they have
Can you name any continents spotted in the text that seem
,
seas or oceans? ‘different’ to where they are from,
e.g. the people’s names, clothes,
food, buildings, etc.
D CUMENTARY
Great landmarks of the world Song
The song focuses on the
continents and oceans of
the world.
In this unit, you will become a travel journalist.
To do this, you will:
• explore countries, cities and landmarks from around the world. Documentary
• discover rivers and mountains from around the world. The documentary focuses on
• describe where you have been and what you have seen to your
amazing world landmarks and
classmates.
where they are found.
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Continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America,

Antarctica, Europe, Australasia.
Oceans: Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern
Seas: Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Caribbean
Sea, Mediterranean Sea, South China Sea, etc.
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 A map is a flat representation of the
UNIT 2 Earth whereas a globe represents
Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon,
Republic of Congo, Democratic
PAGE 20 the Earth as a sphere, and is tilted,
like the Earth, on an axis.
Republic of Congo, Uganda,
Kenya, Somalia, Indonesia

Objective
Pupils will understand the
following concepts: the equator, By the end of this
lines of latitude and longitude, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE lesson, you will
know what the
BETWEEN A MAP AND A GLOBE?
and the northern and southern
hemispheres. different lines on
a map are.

A world map is a flat representation of the Earth. World maps

Key vocabulary contain different lines that help us measure distances and locate places.
equator, globe, hemisphere,
latitude, longitude, map, The equator is an imaginary line that
passport, sphere divides the Earth into the northern
ere.
hemisphere and the southern hemisph
arou nd the Eart h.
It goes horizontally
Warm up
Lines of longitude are vertical.
• Ask pupils to take turns describing
where they live, from the specific
to the general, by naming their: Lines of latitude are horizontal.
street, city or town, province,
Find out which countries the
autonomous community, country,
equator passes through.
continent, hemisphere. Explain that
this is similar to ‘zooming out’ on Globes are different from world maps.
an interactive map.
They represent the Earth as a sphere.
They are tilted, like the Earth, on an axis.

Main concepts
If you want to travel around the world,
• After reading, ask questions about you need a passport. Your passport
the equator: What it is called? What contains your personal information. Xx
is the significance of the first two axis
syllables, ‘e-qua’? Explain that the STAGE 1
equator cuts the globe into two
‘equal’ parts. • Fold a piece of card in two.
• Stick a photo of yourself on the left-hand page.
your photo.
• Write your name, date of birth, place of birth and nationality under
Learn more 20
• Ask pupils to find their latitude
and longitude on a map. You can
Pupils could complete this activity at home as a way of preparing for the unit.
use an interactive map to check
They will complete the covers of their passports at the end of the unit, but
their results.
they could research and draw their flag on the inside cover of the passport
at this stage.

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 UNIT 2
PAGE 21
Objective
Pupils will understand that
globes are not perfect spheres.
THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS Pupils will also know the names
and locations of the different
continents and oceans.

Before you start

Globes, like the Earth, are not perfect spheres. Key vocabulary
Materials continent, hemisphere, sphere
round balloon, newspaper, bowl, glue,
water, paintbrush, blue paint, outlines of the
continents, coloured pencils, scissors, needle Warm up
Method • Show pupils the materials needed
1 Blow up the balloon. for the lesson and ask them to guess
2 Cover newspaper with a mixture of glue what they will be doing. Ask them
and water. Then, cover the balloon with why they are using a balloon rather
three or four layers of the newspaper and than something that is perfectly
leave it to dry.
spherical. Globes (and the Earth) are
3 Paint the outside of the balloon blue and not perfect spheres.
leave it to dry.
4 Colour in the outlines of the continents.
5 Cut out the continents and stick them on Main concepts
the globe.
• Demonstrate steps 1 and 2. Then,
6 Pop the balloon with a needle. Remove it
ask pupils to begin working in pairs
from the globe.
There are seven continents. and to help each other. While the
Conclu sions balloon dries, pupils can research
How many continents are there?
interesting facts about each
What does the globe show us about the continent.
Earth? Think about its shape and the
amount of land and water.

s us that …
Learn more
The globe show
• Pupils should discuss the conclusion
questions in pairs, writing their
21 answers in full sentences beginning
with The globe shows us that …

Encourage pupils to explore the • Pupils can also draw the equator
The globe shows us that the Earth is seasons by carrying out the activity on their globe. Ask if they have
not a perfect sphere, and that there on page 91. They will investigate discovered anything else that they
is more water than land on Earth. how the tilt of the Earth causes the would like to add to their globe,
seasons in the different hemispheres. e.g. the names of the oceans.
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 UNIT 2 Approximately 70% of the
Antarctic, Atlantic,
Pacific, Indian, Southern
PAGES 22–23 Earth’s surface is water.

Objective
Pupils will be able to locate and
name the seven continents and There are five oceans on Earth.
five oceans on Earth. HOW MUCH OF THE EARTH’S Find the oceans on the map.
SURFACE IS WATER?
Key vocabulary
area, continent, ocean, Approximately 70% of
population, sea, surface, the Earth’s surface is
surround
covered in water, in the
form of oceans and
seas. The rest of the
Earth’s surface is land.
Tip The land is divided into
continents. A continent
You may wish to display a large
is a very large area
map of the world labelled with
of land. Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
the continents and the oceans
America
on the board. Check that the
Caribbean Sea
names of the continents are Afric
the same as in this unit, i.e. There are seven
Australasia rather than Oceania
continents. Order them
according to their area. South
or Australia, or explain that Pacific America
Ocean
there are different definitions
of the continents, with different Which continent do
numbers of continents and you think has the
different names. most countries?

Warm up
• Play a game: call out the name of a
Find out which
country and have pupils say or write
continent has
which continent that country is
the largest
located on. The first pupil to answer
population. Penguins do not live only in Antarctica.
correctly takes a turn to call out a There are penguins in South America,
country. You can adapt the game by Africa and Australasia, too.
asking pupils to write or call out the 22
name of the ocean(s) that border(s)
a country. You can also make the
game easier by displaying a map of Africa
Here’s the hidden landmark!
the world and marking the country Asia
on the map as you call it out.

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 Main concepts
Mediterranean Sea, • Play the song Five oceans, seven
Caribbean Sea and continents at the beginning of
South China Sea the lesson. Share the following
mnemonic as an aid to remember
the oceans (it runs roughly from

Find three seas

Seas are smaller than oceans. north to south on a typically
By the end of this labelled map): An (Arctic) animal
on the map.
They are located where the
oceans meet the land. lesson, you will
(Atlantic) plays (Pacific) in (Indian)
be able to name
slime (Southern). Ask pupils to order
the five oceans
and seven the continents in terms of area, from
Arctic Arctic
Ocean Ocean continents. largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North
America, South America, Antarctica,
Europe, Australasia.

Learn more
Asia Asia About 250 million
• Ask the pupils to draw a table with
years ago, there was
two headings in their notebooks:
Europe Europe Sea of Sea of
Japan
only one continent,
Japan northern hemisphere and southern
Ocean called Pangaea.
hemisphere. Then, ask them
It was surrounded
to add at least three countries
Africa
by one ocean, called
Africa Pacific Pacific from each hemisphere under the
Arabian Arabian
Ocean Ocean Panthalassa. Find out
Sea Sea correct heading.
Indian Indian why we have seven
Ocean Ocean
continents today, • Look back: Ask pupils to draw the

Australasia Australasia instead of one. equator, lines of latitude and lines

of longitude on a map displayed on
the board.

This occurred due to continental

Southern Southern
Ocean Ocean drift. The surface of the Earth
Antarctica
Antarctica is made up of tectonic plates.
These plates moved apart and
STAGE 2 Which contin the continents were pulled in
ent
is … on? different directions.
• Get into groups of three.
• Ask each group member two questions about their country from
Unit 1. Which continent is it on? Which oceans surround it? Which oceans
• Add the information to the right-hand page of your passport. surround … ?
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Ask pupils to get into groups of three. Each pupil asks their fellow group members
the questions about their non-European country: Which continent is it on? Which
oceans surround it? They then add the information to the right-hand page of their
passport.

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 UNIT 2 The highiest city in the
PAGES 24–25 world La Paz in Bolivia.

Objective
Pupils will be able to locate Which countries
WHAT IS THE HIGHEST CITY IN THE WORLD? are the landmarks
some countries and capital
cities on a political map. They on this page
will also be able to name some located in?
of the world’s most well-known
landmarks. This political map shows
how the seven continents
are divided into different
Key vocabulary countries. We can also see
some of the most amazing GREENLAND

capital city, government, landmarks¹ on Earth.

landmark, locate, temperature,
Nuuk

windy
C A N A D A

ATLANTIC
Ottawa OCEAN

UNITED STATES OF AMERICAD.C.

Washington,

Tip
MEXICO
Mexico City

Ask pupils to bring in postcards GUATEMALA HONDURAS

Guatemala Tegucigalpa
San José
COSTA RICA
COLOMBIA
of their favourite places they Bogotá

Statue of
PACIFIC
OCEAN
have been to. Alternatively, they PERU B R A Z I L

Liberty Lima
BOLIVIA
La Paz
Brasilia
La Paz is the
could bring in postcards they or Sucre

highest city
their family have received from CHILE
Santiago Buenos Aires
and capital city
ARGENTINA
people who have visited famous in the world.
landmarks.
Chichen
Itza
Warm up
• Play a game of fastest finger first: in
pairs, pupils compete against each
other to locate different landmarks Machu
Picchu Find another
on the map as you call them out. To
famous world
make this game more challenging, landmark
ask them to tell you which continent hidden in
the landmark is located on. the unit. Pyramids of Giza

24 Taj Mah al on page 24:

Anticlockwise starting
Statue of Liberty (USA)
Chichen Itza (Mexico)
Machu Picchu (Peru) Hidden landmark
The Taj Mahal (India) (the Big Ben) on
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) page 22.
Sydney Opera House (Australia)
30 Great Wall of China (China)
 Main concepts
• Ask volunteers to read the name of
Ooh-lahn-bah-ter each landmark. Check that they are
able to locate each landmark on
the map.

• Then, ask the pupils to draw a table

This political map also shows capital
Sometimes, instead with seven headings for the seven
By the end of
cities. The government of a country of saying capital city continents and to list the landmarks
this lesson, you
is usually located in its capital city. we just say capital. will know where found on each continent under each
some of the heading. Explain that Antarctica is
world’s greatest not likely to have many!
landmarks are.
Can you pronounce ARTIC OCEAN

the name of this city?! Ulaanbaatar, the

capital of Mongolia
, Learn more
is the coldest capital
city on Earth. • Repeat the fastest finger first game,
R U S S I A
but this time ask pupils to name
FINLAND
Helsinki

Moscow
the ocean that each landmark is
UNITED
KINGDOM Ulaanbaatar
London
Paris
MONGOLIA closest to.
Great Wall
FRANCE Beijing
ITALY JAPAN

of China
Rome
SPAIN Ankara
Tokyo
Madrid
C H I N A

Rabat
Algiers
Tripoli
TURKEY
JORDAN
Amman
I R A N
Tehran
• Look back: ask the pupils if the
MOROCCO Cairo Kuwait City
New Delhi
ALGERIA LIBYA
EGYPT
KUWAIT
Riyadh
INDIA
PACIFIC OCEAN map on this page is a large-scale
The construction of
SAUDI ARABIA
MALI SUDAN THAILAND
Bamako
Khartoum Bangkok
Tokyo is the or small-scale map, and to explain
the Great Wall of
Abuja Addis Ababa
NIGERIA ETHIOPIA
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC KENYA I N D O N E S I A
capital city how they know.
OF CONGO Nairobi
with the biggest China began over
Kinshasa Jakarta

Luanda
ANGOLA
population. 2,000 years ago.
SOUTH AFRICA
Bloemfontein
Pretoria
Kuwait City, the INDIAN OCEAN A U S T R A L I A

capital of Kuwait,
Cape Town

Canberra

is the world’s Wellington

NEW ZEALAND
SOUTHERN OCEAN
hottest city.

500 km

R C T I C A
A N T A

Sydney Opera House

STAGE 3

• Find out what the major cities are in your group members’ What are the
countries. Do they have any famous landmarks? major cities
in … ?
• Add this information to your passpo rt.

¹landmark: something that is famous and makes a place recognisable

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Introduce the task by asking the pupils to tell you their favourite landmarks
in Madrid and add them to a passport drawn on the board. Ask if any of the
countries they investigated in Unit 1 contain any interesting landmarks.
Then, pupils ask their fellow group members what the capital cities of their
countries are and if there are any famous landmarks in the countries.
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 UNIT 2
PAGES 26–27 Everest, at 8,848 metres

Objective
Pupils will be able to locate and
name the highest mountains
and longest rivers on each
continent.
WHAT IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD?

This physical map shows the highest mountains on each continent. It also
Key vocabulary shows the longest rivers on Earth, as well as mountain ranges and deserts.
These are physical features.
desert, elevation, flow, mountain,
mountain range, wide
The Sahara Deser
t Denali:
is in Africa. It is 6,190 m
bigger than most
Tip countries on Earth
.
Yukon

Ma
Suggest that pupils research

cke
nzi
e
well-known mountains and HUDSON
BAY

rivers before the lesson. They

s
tain
could research ‘superlatives’ GREAT
LAKES
ala
chia
nM
oun

App

sippi
related to mountains and

Missis
rivers, e.g. the longest river, the
ATLANTIC

widest river, the river that flows OCEAN

The Sahara Desert is

CARIBBEAN SEA

through the biggest number of

countries, the highest mountain, not the biggest desert on PACIFIC OCEAN Amaz
on

Earth. Find out what is.

Th

the highest mountain range, etc. e

An
de
Aconcagua: s
ATACAMA DESERT

6,961 m
The Nile is the
Warm up longest river in
3000 m

1500 m

• Write the names of the continents of the world. It is 600 m

Vinson:
300 m

the board. Then write the names of located in Africa. 100 m

CAPE HORN

0m
4,892 m
well-known rivers, mountains and
mountain ranges. Ask the pupils to Sentinel

match the rivers, mountains and

mountain ranges to the continent
they are located on.
Look at the key on the map. Which colour
shows the highest mountain ranges?
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Antarctica

Dark brown

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 Main concepts
• Arrange the pupils into seven
The Amazon
groups. Assign one of the seven
mountains on pages 26 and 27 to
each group and ask them to write
the name and elevation on an A4-
Find out what the wi sized piece of paper. One pupil from
dest By the end of
river in the world is. each group comes up to the top of
this lesson, you
the class and holds up their piece
The Mekong will be able to
of paper. Spokespeople from each
flows¹ through six name the highest
mountain on group take turns to give instructions
countries in Asia.
each continent. to order the ‘mountains’ from
highest to lowest. Then, they swap
roles and repeat the activity.

The Himalayas are the • Finally, repeat the activity, but this
ARTIC OCEAN
highest mountain range time the pupils holding the pieces of
in the world. They are paper are not allowed to look at the
Elbrus:
located in Asia and are paper. Ask pupils if the exercise was
5,642 m
e
ng

Le
na ym
a
R
a
home to Mount Everest. easier or quicker the second time
Kol

NORWEGIAN SEA
and third time, and to explain why.
Ura

Ob
l M

Vol
oun

ga LAKE BAIKAL
NORTH
ur
tain

Everest:
SEA
Am
s

Seine Carpa
tian
s
ps
The Al D a n u b e
8,848 m SEA OF

Learn more
CA

JAPAN
SP

BLACK SEA
IAN
SEA

tze
MEDITERRANEAN
SEA Ya n g

Ganges Puncak Jaya: • Write or display the names of the

M

PACIFIC OCEAN
ek

D E S E R T
S A H A R A
4,884 m five longest rivers (Nile, Amazon,
on
RE
D

g
SE
A

ARABIAN SEA
le

Yangtze, Mississippi and Yenisei) and

Ni

LAKE VICTORIA Kilimanjaro: Sudir

man
Range the seven continents on the board.
5,895 m
Ask the pupils to match each river
KALAHARI
G R E AT S A N D Y Which mountain
DESERT
INDIAN OCEAN
DESERT
to the continent it is located on (Nile
G R E AT V I C T O R I A
DESERT
range is Machu Picchu
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Murray
located in? – Africa; Amazon – South America;
TASMAN SEA Yangtze – Asia: Mississippi – North
SOUTHERN OCEAN America; Yenisei – Asia).

Are there any

500 km
rivers, mountains
STAGE 4 or deserts in … ? The Andes

• Ask your group members about the physical (especially liquids)

features of their countries. continuously in one direction
• Add this information to your passport. 1
to flow: to move
27

Pupils ask each other about the physical features on their

maps, such as mountains, mountain ranges, rivers and
lakes, and add this information to their passports.

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 UNIT 2
PAGE 28
Language Skills
answers
1 a Seven Language skills
b 44 Listen and write the answers in your notebook.
c Ireland

d Plane and camper van

e Castles

This activity gives the pupils

practice of A1 Movers
Listening Part 2.

2 a the highest

b the windiest

c driest

d smaller than
Travelling around the world
e on
a Number of continents: .....

b Number of countries: .....

c Favourite country: .....

d Modes of transport: .....

e Favourite landmark: .....

Copy the sentences with the correct option in your notebook.

a La Paz is the highest / highest / higher capital city in the world.
b Wellington is windier / the windyest / the windiest city in the world.
c What is the most dry / driest / dryest capital city in the world?
d Seas are smaller than / more small / smaller oceans.
e There are seven continents at / in / on Earth.

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 UNIT 2
PAGE 29
Review answers
1 a oceans
Review b continents

Look and read. Copy the descriptions in your notebook and choose  c seas
the correct words.
This activity gives the pupils
practice of A1 Movers Reading
and Writing Part 2.

2 a Mount Everest

b Asia

c The equator is an imaginary line

that divides the Earth into the
northern hemisphere and the
southern hemisphere. It goes
continents oceans seas
horizontally around the Earth.
a There are five of these on Earth. .....
b There are seven of these large areas of land on Earth. .....
c These are found where an ocean meets the land. .....

Answer the questions in your notebook.

Encourage pupils to revise
a What is the highest mountain in the world?
the unit content using the
b Which is the biggest continent in the world? questions on page 80 and the
c What is the equator? study techniques on page 81.
Go to page 80 for more activities.
FINALE

• Draw and design a cover for your passport. Find a picture of the flag
of each country, or draw them.
• Get into new groups of three.
• Imagine that you have travelled to the countries in your passport.
Tell your new group members about your
First, I went to … , which is in … .
amazing journey. Use your passport to
help you remember what you saw. I went to the city of … and saw … .
It was incredible!

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You could ask pupils to complete the design for their passport covers at home. Pupils
can use ICT resources at home or in school to research the flags of the countries ‘they
have visited’. When they have finished the first step in this stage, organise the pupils
into new groups of three. Ask them to use their imaginations and vividly explain their
travels to their fellow group members. They should have their passport open in front of
them for support and for their group mates to see.
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 UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT PAGE 80

Think about it answers

1 The equator is an imaginary line that divides 7 Mount Everest, Asia
the Earth into the northern hemisphere and
8 False – Machu Picchu is located in South
the southern hemisphere. It goes horizontally
America.
around the Earth.
9 Search for maps with continent outlines,
2 Seven: Asia, Africa, South America, North
country outlines, and major rivers or mountains.
America, Antarctica, Europe, Australasia
To make the activity more challenging, use a
3 Approximately 70% blank map of the world.

4 Mountains, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, 10 Asia (India, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc.),
seas, oceans Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Togo, etc.),
Australasia (Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand,
5 A landmark is something that is well-known or
etc.), North America (USA, Mexico, Canada, Cuba,
famous, and that makes a place recognisable.
Costa Rica, etc.), South America (Argentina,
6 The equator is a line of latitude. Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, etc.)

Think harder answers

1 Globes are different from maps because they 6 The Nile River is the longest river in the world and
represent the Earth as a sphere, whereas maps it flows through Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda,
are a flat representation. Globes are tilted, like Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,
the Earth, on an axis. They both show political or Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Eritrea
physical features and can contain lines of latitude
7 The Nile River is 6,853 km long and is used for
and longitude.
transport, irrigation, tourism and much more.
2 The five oceans are the Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific,
8 No, they can also be natural. Mount Fuji, Uluru,
Indian and Southern. The three seas listed could
Giant’s Causeway, etc.
be the Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Black,
Balearic, Ionian, among others. Oceans are larger 9 Example answer: Buenos Aires is the capital city
than seas. Seas are where oceans meet the land. of Argentina. A famous dance called the flamenco
originated there. The name Buenos Aires means
3 The Indian Ocean is the warmest. The Arctic
‘tall mountain’.
Ocean is the smallest.
10 Expect a simplified answer from pupils: A country
4 A mountain is a large landform that extends
is part of a continent, and a capital city is part of a
above the surrounding area. A mountain range
country. A continent is part of the earth
is a series of mountains that are connected by
high ground.

5 Pupils’ own answers.

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UNIT 2 TRACKLIST

Track 07 Page 19, Song: Five oceans, seven continents

Track 08 Page 20, What is the difference between a map and a globe?

Track 09 Page 22, How much of the Earth’s surface is water?

Track 10 Page 24, What is the highest city in the world?

Track 11 Page 26, What is the highest mountain in the world?

Track 12 Page 28, Language skills, Activity 1

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