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A DREAM
TRIP
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1 Warm-up
Part A: Work in groups. Imagine your class can go on a trip to any place on Earth. Where would you
like to go?
1. What is the place and where is it?
2. What do you know about it?
3. Why do you want to go there?
Part B: Tell the class why your place is worth visiting.
Examples:
We would like to visit Japan. It is a country in Asia. It is located on many islands. We want to visit Japan
because we love manga and Japanese fashion.
We would like to go to North America because we want to see the Great Canyon, Niagara Falls and visit
Disneyland.
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2 A trip to Chile
Part A: Check how much you know about Chile. Try to complete the table.
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru Santiago South America
Spanish the Andes tropical, temperate, subpolar
name Chile
official name the Republic of Chile
1
continent
2
capital city
3
official language
4
neighboring countries
longest river Loa River, 273 miles
5
mountains
6
climate
Part B: Read the text and check your answers.
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3 Talking about directions
Part A: Write the words that correspond to the letters on a compass.
• A compass is a device that shows direction.
• There are four main directions.
• A compass always points north.
• If you turn a compass so that the needle is on the letter N (north),
you will know where the other directions are.
1. N → north
2. S→
3. W→
4. E→
5. NW →
6. NE → northeast
7. SW →
8. SE →
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Part B: Read the section of the text again and find Chile and its three neighbouring countries on the
map below. Put the letters in the brackets in the text below.
1
Chile ( ) is a long very narrow country located in the west of South America. It is neighbored
2 3 4
by Peru ( ) to the north, Bolivia ( ) to the northeast, Argentina ( ) to the
east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Part C: Read and listen. Locate the other nine countries on the map of South America nd put the
letters in the correct brackets below.
1. Brazil ( ) is the biggest country in South America.
2. Uruguay ( ) is south of Brazil.
3. Ecuador ( ) is northwest of Peru and south of Colombia .
4. Venezuela ( ) is east of Colombia.
5. There are three small countries north of Brazil. Guyana ( ) is east of Venezuela. Suriname
( ) is between Guyana and French Guyana ( ).
6. Paraguay ( ) is southeast of Bolivia.
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4 Let me tell you about a country
Listen to Jasmine giving a presentation about Chile. Then decide which of the sentences are true (T)
and which are false (F). Correct the false sentences.
Video 1. Jasmine is from Chile.
2. The Republic of Chile lies between the Andes mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
Audio
3. There is a desert in the west of the country - the Atacama.
4. In the south, there are ice fields and glaciers.
5. Jasmine’s favorite animal is the llama.
6. There are camels in Chile.
7. Llamas, alpacas, vicunas and guanacos are all related to the camel, but they don’t have a hump.
8. Llamas, alpacas, vicunas and guanacos live in the desert.
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5 Language focus: articles with proper nouns
Part A: Match the categories to the examples.
Group 1
1. first name a. the Pacific
2. last name b. Jasmine
3. continent c. Santiago
4. country d. Rodriguez
5. city e. South America
6. ocean f. Chile
Group 2
1. sea a. the Andes
2. lake b. Baikal
3. river c. the Red Sea
4. desert d. Ojos del Salado
5. mountain range e. the Sahara
6. mountain peak f. the Nile
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Part B: Now, complete the rules with the categories below.
a) deserts - b) countries - c) cities - d) lakes - e) rivers - f) mountain ranges - g) seas
Proper nouns are nouns which are names of people and places. They are always written
with a capital letter. Some proper names are used with no article, but some are used with
the definite article ‘the’.
In English we use no article with:
first names, last names, names of continents 1 , 2
, 3
,
4 5
,
In English we use the definite article ‘the’ with:
6 7 8
names of oceans, , , , mountain
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ranges
Be careful! Most names of countries have no article but there are some exceptions:
the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates
the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Congo
Part C: Complete the sentences with the geographical names. Add the definite article where necessary.
1. South America is situated between Ocean in the east, Ocean in
the west and the Caribbean Sea in the north.
2. Buenos Aires is the capital of .
3. The Amazon river flows through , and Colombia.
4. Aconcagua is the highest peak in .
5. and are in North America.
6. is the longest river in North America.
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6 Your dream trip
Work in groups. Choose a country that you would like to visit. Answer the questions below and
prepare a short presentation for the whole class.
1. Which continent is the country on?
2. What countries are its neighbours?
3. What is the capital city?
4. What language do the people speak?
5. What is the climate like?
6. What mountains, rivers or lakes are there?
7. What animals live there?
8. Why do you want to visit it?
7 Homework
Write a few sentences about your country for somebody who would like to visit it.
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8 Optional extension/homework: learn some new words
Part A: Read a fragment of the recording and pay attention to the underlined words.
The llama is one of the four species known as the New World’s camelids, which inhabit the high
mountains of the South American Andes. They are related to the camel, although they don’t have a
hump. Originally domesticated by the indigenous Quechua people, llamas were almost destroyed
in the early 1500s because they were replaced by sheep following the Spanish conquest of the
region. Alpacas are famous for their fine hair, and the vicunas and guanacos are now protected.
Part B: Find pairs of sentences with similar meanings.
1. The Quechua people started using llamas as farm animals.
2. The Quechua people lived in Chile before the Spanish arrived there.
3. The Spanish started using sheep instead of llamas.
4. Llamas almost stopped existing.
5. Wild animals are kept safe in national parks.
6. Guanacos live in the Andes.
7. The Spanish took control of South America in the 15th century.
8. Llamas and camels belong to the same animal family.
a. They inhabit the Andes.
b. The Spanish conquest of South America happened in the 15 century.
c. They are the indigenous people of Chile.
d. They were almost destroyed.
e. They replaced llamas with sheep.
f. They are related.
g. They domesticated them.
h. They are protected.
Part C: Use some of the words you have studied to complete the sentences below.
1. People wild cats, dogs and horses a long time ago.
2. Most landline phones have been with mobil phones.
3. Around 15 billion trees are each year.
4. The panda is a species.
5. Polar bears the arctic region.
6. Zebras are to horses.
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