Travel

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is the world's second-largest and second-most
populous continent, after Asia.
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 The ?????? of Africa

• The ???? of Africa ranges from tropical to

subarctic on its highest peaks.
Explain the meaning of: tropical and subarctic. 2
 The ???????
The Victoria Falls are
one of the world's most
spectacular ??????.
The falls are situated
on the Zambezi River,
on the border between
Zambia and Zimbabwe
.

How can you describe

this view? You can use
these words: fantastic,
incredible, amazing,
astonishing, fabulous, What is this?
wonderful. And this?
Do you know meaning of these words?
waterfall, ridge, abyss, precipice, rainbow 3
 This is a ????? of the mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro rises
majestically from a rolling
plain close to the Indian
Ocean and it is the highest
mountain in Africa.
Kilimanjaro National Park is a
n??? p???, located in
Tanzania. It is c????? on Mount
Kilimanjaro.
In the 1910s, Mount Kilimanjaro
and its f???? was declared a
g???? reserve by the German
colonial government. In 1921 it
was made a forest r????.
In 1973, the mountain above the
tree line (~2700m) was
reclassified as a National Park
and was opened to p????
access in 1977. The park was
d????? a World Heritage Site
by UNESCO in 1987.
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 Types of ?????????
• Africa’s northern half is primarily desert or
arid, while its central and southern areas
contain both savanna plains and very
dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In
between, there is a convergence where
vegetation patterns such as sahel, and
steppe dominate.

Let’s explain these words 

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 The world's largest hot ?????

Humans first domesticated ????? A ??? is a hill of sand

approximately 5,000 years ago.

Make sentences with words: tribe, tribal, tribesman. 6

 A savanna is a g???????
with widely spaced trees

The Serengeti is a region of g?????? and w??????? in Tanzania. It has more

than 1.6 million herbivores and thousands of predators. Blue Wildebeests,
gazelles, zebras and buffalos are the animals most commonly found in the region.

Explain the meaning of: herbivores, predator, omnivorous, carnivorous,

scavenger, bird of prey. Could you give an example of this?
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Describe yourself.
 Tropical ??????

Tropical ?????? are called the "jewel of the earth", the "world's largest
pharmacy" and are also often described as the "Earth's lungs”. Could you
explain why?

Sometimes an urban environment can be called a ??????.

Why? What does it mean: law of the ????? 8
 A ?????? A female is called ????

A baby is called ?????

The ???? is a mammal and

one of "big cats". The
male ???? is easily
recognized by his m???.

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What this idiom means: Lion’s share?
 The ?????

The ?????, the largest of the living primates,

is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of Africa.

A ?????? is an adult male gorilla, typically more than 12 years of

age and named for the distinctive patch of silver hair on his back.

Explain and try to make a sentence with these words:

Inhabit, un/inhabited, un/inhabitable, inhabitation, inhabiter/inhabitant. 10
 The ????? species
Gorillas are endangered, and
have been subject to intense
poaching for a long time.
Threats to gorilla survival
include habitat destruction and
the bushmeat trade. In 2004 a
population of several hundred
gorillas in the Odzala National
Park, Republic of Congo was
essentially wiped out by the
Ebola virus.
Do you know these idioms?
• Wipe off the map / wipe off the face of the earth
• Some day we hope to wipe malaria off the map.
• Wipe the slate clean
• He wished he could wipe the stale clean, but it was too late to salvage the 11
relationship.
 A ?????

A group of gorillas is called

a troop.
How can we call a large
group of animals or people?

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 Some words and structure
• Populous, waterfall, ridge, abyss,
precipice, rainbow, peak, top, summit,
acme, hilltop, game reserve, forest
reserve, tribe, tribal, tribesman, desert,
dune, grassland, woodland, herbivores,
predator, omnivorous, carnivorous,
scavenger, bird of prey, habitat, wiped out,
flock, herd, primarily, convergence

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 A quiz

Give
the name of:
City
River
Country

??? is located on the banks and islands of the ????? River in the north
of ????, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-
bound valley and breaks into two branches into the low-lying ????? Delta
region.
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