Самостоятельная работа ученика 6 класса по теме " Our Neighbourhood Introduction " для дистанционного обучения

Unit

Our Neighbourhood 

Theme

Our Neighbourhood  Introduction

Learning Objectives

 6.R recognise typical features at word, sentence and text level in a limited range of written genres.

6.W1 plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level with support on a limited range of general and curricular topics

 Hello, boys and girls. How are you?

Task 1. Warm up:

 Mixed-up sentence

(To get positive spirit students should reconstruct the original sentence)

Task 2. Work on pronunciation:

 Continents (list by size of continents):

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia/Oceania

Oceans:

The Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the southern Ocean, the Arctic Ocean

 Compass points: The North , the South, The East, The West

Other words: population, cover, long (longer, the longest), high (higher, the highest), dry (drier, the driest)

The degrees of comparison of adjectives are suggested having been revised before reading the text( video)

Reading the article

Task 3.

Ten Top Continent Facts

1. Asia is the biggest continent. It has the biggest land area and the world's biggest population (most people) living on the continent. The continent has the most populous cities, that means there are the biggest cities in the world with many million people living in the urban centres, such as in Delhi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing. Read more about the Asian continent here.

2. Oceania is the smallest continent of the planet. Oceania includes Australasia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. This includes Australia, New Zealand the many islands to the north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. Read more about Oceania here.

3. Africa is the continent that has the most countries. There are 54 countries on the African continent. As the oldest human fossils such as skeletons and skulls have been discovered in Africa, the continent is also called 'cradle of humankind'. Read more about the African continent here.

4. North America is a continent which is located entirely on the northern and western hemisphere. It includes the United States of America (USA), Canada, Mexico, Greenland and the Caribbean islands among other countries. North America is home to the largest Christian population in the world. Almost 80% of the people in Canada, the USA and Mexico consider themselves as Christians. Read more about North America here.

6. Europe houses the two smallest countries in the world: Vatican City which is located inside Rome/Italy and Monaco which is bordered on three sides by France. Actually, five European countries make it on the list of the ten smallest countries in the world which include also San Marino, Liechtenstein and Malta, all other tiny countries outside Europe are located on islands! Read more about the European continent here.

7. The most languages are spoken in Asia - over 2,300 languages! However, most of these languages are spoken only by small groups of people. 2,000 languages of the world's 7,000 languages are spoken by less than 1,000 people! Chinese is the language with the most native speakers with almost 1.4 billion people speaking it. English, however, is spoken by people in more than 100 countries worldwide. North America has the largest number of people who speak English either as their first language (231 million people) or as their second language fluently.

8. South America is a continent of many natural superlatives. It has the longest mountain range - the Andes, the highest waterfalls - the Angel Falls - and also the driest place on earth. The driest place on earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. Read more amazing facts about the continent on our page here.

9. Asia houses some of the richest nations in the world. The tiny country Qatar on the Arabian peninsula is the richest nation in the world due to its income from oil exploration and the petroleum industry. Saudi-Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are also among richest countries in the world due to their oil reserves.

10. Antarctica is the smallest continent by population numbers. This means the continent is only sparsely populated as on Antarctica there are only research stations for scientists and no permanent settlements. Antarctica is covered almost completely by ice. 90% of the planet's ice is located on this continent, which also makes up 60% - 70% of the world's freshwater supply.

Learners are given the descriptor for reading task

Descriptor:

1. Read the article

2. answer the given questions

3. show these continents on the map

Questions :

1. In what continent are there the most number of countries? (Africa)
2. In what continent are there many people?

Task 4.Write the names of the countries in the correct continent.

Brazil Argentina Australia Canada Chile China Egypt France Germany India Ireland Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Peru South Africa South Korea Switzerland The United Kingdom (UK) The United States of America (USA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ayMXBDaMg   OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE

Oceans Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BE4VcYngQ

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=G3vaUIrzw-w&redir_token=e0nHapZbMEa6IwpVDefpWR-MLUB8MTU4NTMxNDg2MEAxNTg1MjI4NDYw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjetenglish.ru