SOCIAL SCIENCES ACTIVITIES 31-03-2020

GOOD MORNING, EXPLORERS AND ADVENTURERS!

ARE YOU READY TO TRAVEL AROUND EUROPE?
First, let's check your activities of the previous lesson.

Answer Key QUIZ:               You can listen to the QUIZ once again.
1. - b)  The Apennines
2. - b) The Urals
3. - a) The Carpathian Mountains
4. - b) The Alps
5. - b)  The Northen European Plain.                                                             Your score        /5

Answer Key Support worksheet 2.4
1. a) Greece is on the Peloponnese Peninsula.
    b) Sweden is located in the Scandinavian Peninsula.
    c) Iceland is an island and a country.
    e) Capes are formed by glaciers.
2.  Match the sentences halves and write.
    a) The Bay of Biscay is located between France and Spain.
    b) The best-known rias are on the coast of Galicia in Spain.
    c) Fjords are inlets in the coast and they are formed by glaciers.
    d) A peninsula is land surrounded by sea on all but one side.
                                                                                                                             Your score        /8

THAT'S BETTER THAN EVER!

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ACTIVITIES 31-03-2020

1 . To warm up take this Quiz  to revise EUROPE'S PHYSICAL FEATURES 
Send me your scores or post them in "Enter you comments" box.

2. LISTENING

You're going to listen to the description of a voyage of a Greek astronomer and adventurer called Pytheas of Massalia (now Marseilles, France).



a) Listen to the audio and answer the questions in your notebook.
1. When did Pytheas' voyage take place?
2. What country did he set off from?
3. What did he want to buy?
4. How far could ships go in those days?
Click to listen →AUDIO PYTHEAS
You can listen as many times as you want. you can stop the Audo to write down the answers.
b)  Label on an outline map all the places Pytheas visited and all the bodies of water he travelled on.
c)Finally, trace on the map the route Pytheas followed.
Click to print  OUTLINE MAP

HAVE A GOOD JOURNEY WITH PYTHEAS!

I HOPE IT WILL BE PLAIN SAILING!

On Thursday , 2nd April, you are going to do a TEST on the main features of Europe's physical and political geography. Revise Europe's countries and their capital cities; most important rivers and mountain ranges; as well as the main features of Europe's coastal relief.