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Learn Through English |
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Geography |
World Geography |
With this activity your students are going to learn the geography of the world: continents, countries, rivers, cities, etc. It is based on the EnchantedLearning website, which conveys a lot of other interesting activities in English you might like to use in your classroom, and on the Google Earth program, which allows us to work on line.
The activity comprises several tasks.
TASK 1. For a start, they will have to 'meet the world'. This task is to be done on line because your students will have to get the information they need from a website and then write the answers on a print out. Your students will also need to have the sheets to fill in with the data they get from their sources of information.
For this activity it is necessary to have previously downloaded Google Earth. It’s free!! If you haven’t, you can do it here. This programme offers you a great variety of possibilities. If you are not familiar with it yet, do so now and use it as you think best. You can change the data in the worksheet according to your interests. If students can’t get enough information from websites, which we doubt, provide them with some web addresses like these:
http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/ |
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html |
http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/resource/geo/intermain/pbwebsmk.htm |
Help them to navigate when necessary and let them find the pages with the information they need.
This is our proposal:
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You can then organise the activity according to your needs, the number of students in the classroom and the time you think necessary: it can be divided into as many sessions as you like since there are sheets for each continent and for each country your student chooses to work on. Remember that the printouts can be altered to suit your goals, so feel free to improve the task!
TASK 2. After the first task we propose a few other activities to test their knowledge on continents, rivers, countries, etc. All of these activities are printouts from EnchantedLearning, even though I have put some of them together for 'printing's sake'. Anyway, don't forget to check their website for more activities to complement these.
These are the different activities:
The student has to complete three different sheets after he has found the necessary information in a text on line (or printed if needs be). |
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This activity features a blank map that the student has to fill in with the right names of continents and sub-continents. There is some written information on the sheet. |
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This activity features a map that the student has to understand in order to answer a few questions about it. |
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This activity features a blank map of Europe. The student has to complete the names of all the countries (the first letter of each country is provided). |