lesson4 gettoknowyourworld
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Aim: How can we understand our world better?
Do Now: Give one example of each:
1. City: _____________2. Country: _____________3. Continent: _____________4. Region: ______________
Get To Know Your World
1. Looking at the map what country is the city Fes in?
2. In what city do some people spend their lives underground?
3. Where in the world do people celebrate weddings for 7 days and 7 nights?
Vocabulary Words:
Mountainous Humid Flat Dry Meals Staple Foods Grasslands Crops
Mountainous
Land with a lot of mountains
adjective
Sentence: Parts of Africa is very mountainous.
Synonyms: hillyAntonyms: flat
Humid
Hot with a lot of water in the air.
adjective
Sentence: It is very humid in New York in the summer time.
Synonym: hot, wet, moistAntonyms: dry
Flat
Land with no mountains or valleys
adjectiveSentence: Deserts are usually flat pieces of land.
Antonym:
Dry
No water adjective
Sentence: Deserts are very dry.
Antonym: Wet, moist
Meals What you eat three times a day. Noun
Sentence: We should all eat three meals every day.
Synonyms: Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast
Staple Foods
The most important, main food of a culture.
noun
Sentence: The staple food in America is bread and pasta.
Grasslands
Land with a lot of grass
noun
Sentence: Grasslands are great for farming and raising animals.
Synonym: grass fields
Antonym: desert
Crops
Plants that you grow and farm for food.
Sentences: It is difficult to grow crops in dry deserts.
Synonym: food
Crop Circles
Agree or Disagree:1. The desert is very moist.2. The antonym for mountainous is
vertical.3. It is humid in the winter time.4. United States of America is a
country.5. The Middle East is a continent.
If you disagree, change the sentence so that you would agree.
Homework #4:
One sentence for each vocabulary word in the PAST TENSE.