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Describing a Place
- Describe a country: Print and fill in the missing words.
- Here is the same file in an online version
- Go to the CIA World Factbook and choose a country. Write about 150 words about its location, physical features, industry, and people.
- Try a Crossword with some common terms needed to describe a country
- Try this online quiz for vocabulary/grammar for describing a country
- An exercise about New Zealand.
- Here is a page which has some definitions of population vocabulary, such as life expectancy, median, mortality, and fertility
- Here is a sample assignment from Level 1 student Mahmoud Ali Mohammed on Iran, and here is one on Greece by Suhaib Abdulla Ahmed Azeez Al Marzooqi
- Try this geography quiz - you have to answer 12 questions using search engines.
Describing People
- Describe the pictures:
- Try describing these pictures from www.writefix.com. Double-click the pictures to open them, and then move your mouse over them: some helpful phrases will appear.
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