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Geography

Sokrétű témakör. Meg kell néznünk az angol elnevezések mellett a nemzetiségek képzését, illetve a névelőhasználatot is.

Find the correct place of the phrases on the map!

North Hungarian Mountains

Great Plain

Transdanubia

Little Hungarian Plain

UK/Anglia:

Nagy Britannia ennek a szigernek a neve (nem ország)

Anglia, Skócia és Wales található rajta. 

Ez az Ír-sziget, rajta Írországgal (külön ország), illetve Észak-Íroszággal (ami a fenti trióval kiegészülve alkotja az Egyesült Királyságot).

Másként ábrázolva:

Ha úgy épül fel a földrajzi név, hogy Melléknév + Köznév, akkor kell a határozott névelő:

the United States / the Great Barrier

The kell még ezek elé is: tengerek, folyók, szigetcsoportok (szigetek nem!), félszigetek, hegységek (hegyek nem!), sivatagok, tájegységek, égtájak:

the Bahamas / the Netherlands / the Carpathians / the Sahara / the British Isles / the Crimea / the Great Plain / the West

Földrajzi nevek:

The kell az of-os szerkezetet tartalmazó elnevezésekbe is:

 the Tower of London / the Gulf of Mexico

Nincs névelő: földrészeknél, hidaknál, tereknél, parkoknál, utcáknál, tavaknál, hegyeknél, szigeteknél, erdőknél, bolygóknál:

Europe / Hyde Park / Elizabeth Bridge / Gellért Hill / Margaret Island / Long Island / Nottingham Forest / Saturn

(kivéve: the Moon / the Earth)

Földrajzi nevek (folytatás):

Apróság: Az angolban a több szóból álló földrajzi neveknél minden nagybetűs:
  the Baltic Sea 

Még egy apróság: vannak s-re végződő földrajzi nevek, városoknál, országoknál egyes számként kezeljük:

Athens is a wonderful city.

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The Alps are the highest mountains in Europe.

Földrajzi nevek (folytatás):

Choose the correct article to the geographical names.

I want to sail around _____
Lake Geneva.

1. the
2. -
3. A 'B' a jó
4. a

_____ Danube runs through many European cities.

1. the
2. -
3. a
4. rain

I have been living in _____ Birmingham for seven years.

1. the
2. -
3. the
4. the

Wild horses live in
_____ Gobi Desert.

1. the
2. -
3. a
4. wet

_____ Pacific Ocean has many different types of fish.

1. the
2. -

Her husband comes from
_____ California.

1. the
2. -

Her village is near
_____ Lake Titicaca.

1. the
2. -

Would you like to visit
____ South America?

1. the
2. -

Landforms

European

countries

Nemzetiségek:

Az angolban a nemzetiségeket legtöbbször -n, -ian, -i vagy -ese végződéssel képezzük.

   -n: American, German, Russian

   -ian: Canadian, Iranian, Norwegian, Hungarian

   -ish: British, English, Irish, Spanish, Turkish, Danish

   -i: Iraqi, Pakistani

   -ese: Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese

Kivételek:

Czech, Dutch, French, Swiss

Can you complete the sentences?

Tomasz is from _____. He speaks Polish.

Ove and Astrid speak _____. They are from Sweden.

Heidi and Johann speak Dutch. They live in the _____.

Enrique is from Mexico. He speaks _____.

Canada

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Canada is a huge country on the North American continent. The country is divided into ten provinces and three territories and is home to about 38 million people (2021). Canada is the largest country in the Western hemisphere and the second largest country in the world after Russia and borders only one country, the United States of America.

Canada has the longest coastline in the world with 202,080 km. Three Canadian islands are among the top ten biggest islands in the world.

They are: Baffin Islands (more than double the size of Great Britain), Victoria Island and Ellesmere Island (both are roughly the size of England). More than half of all the lakes in the world are located in Canada! 

The country counts more than 3 million lakes and 31,700 big lakes with an area over 300 hectares. Canada also includes two of the biggest lakes in the world: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake.

Toronto is Canada's largest metropole with over 6 million people. Montreal, Canada's second largest city with over 4 million inhabitants, is also the second largest city in the world that has a French-speaking population - after Paris in France. The Bay of Fundi in eastern Canada has the highest tides in the world. The waves there are more than 13 m high.

Did you know that the number plate for cars, motorbikes and snowmobiles in the Northern State of Nunavut is the shape of a polar bear?

The Literacy Rate is 99%, so almost all Canadians can read and write.

There are more than 2,800 hockey rinks. Ice-Hockey is still the second most practised sport in Canada for all over 15 years of age. Ice hockey comes after golf, but before soccer!

About half of Canada's landmass is covered by forest. There are about 180 tree species in Canada. Timber is among the main exports of the country. Canada is the third most forested country in the world.

Peru

Where is Peru? Peru is located on the South American continent. Peru is the third largest country of South America. It is completely located in the southern hemisphere.

Peru borders the Pacific Ocean to the west and five South American countries: Ecuador and Colombia to the North, Brazil and Bolivia to the East and Chile to the South.

Peru has three regions: the coastal region (narrow plain), the sierra (Andes region also called Altiplano) and the selva region. Jungle covers 60% of the country. 

Peru is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The country has many volcanos. Ubinas is the country's most active volcano and erupted last in 2009.



The climate in Peru varies from tropical in eastern rainforest region to dry desert in western coastal region. The higher Andes region has a temperate climate.

Peru is slightly smaller than the state of Alaska in the USA - and almost twice the size of Texas. Peru is about twice the size of France.

The capital city Lima is one of the ten largest cities in Latin America.

The highest mountain of Peru is the Huascarán with 6,768 m.

The largest lake in Peru is Lake Titicaca. It is located high up in the Andes region and Peru shares the lake with Bolivia. Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America and the highest navigable lake in the world! Peru has a coastline which is 2,414 km/ 1,500 miles long and the coastline is thus longer than the Pacific coastline of neighbouring Ecuador.

Machu Picchu: The ruins of the ancient Inca empire are located at about 2,500 m high up in the mountain forests.

Rainbow Mountain 'Vilicunca': This colourful mountain is located high up in the Andes mountains. The seven colours of the mountain are due to the different minerals in the soil.

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VOCABULARY SET B/15-16

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