Wider World 1 Unit 8. Vocabulary

1 Put the words and expressions in the box into the correct place in the table. There are four extra words.

Arctic down east flag lake mountain ninety million
North America population restaurant South America west

Belongs to a country                

Continent                            

Compass point          

Nature              

Complete the sentence.

The      of France has three coloured stripes, blue, white and red.

Complete the sentence.

The biggest continent in the world is      .

Complete the sentence.

The       we use in France is the Euro.

Complete the sentence.

The Pacific       is the biggest in the world.

What          do they speak in your country?

Complete the sentence.

Australia is a continent, but it’s also a large        .

Complete the sentence.

The              of Japan is Tokyo.

Complete the description using the words in the box. There are three extra words.

Africa America country Europe lake north river seas sun weather

Egypt is a very hot         in a big continent called        There are beautiful, blue      on two sides of Egypt. There are lots of fish to see if you swim there. There is a very long       in Egypt called the Nile. Most of the people live near the Nile. Over the Mediterranean to the       is another continent called        . Lots of people come from here to Egypt for a holiday because we have so much history here, like the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, and the         here is very sunny too.