lesson4 gettoknowyourworld

Aim: How can we understand our world better?

Do Now: Give one example of each:

1. City: _____________2. Country: _____________3. Continent: _____________4. Region: ______________

Get To Know Your World

1. Looking at the map what country is the city Fes in?

2. In what city do some people spend their lives underground?

3. Where in the world do people celebrate weddings for 7 days and 7 nights?

Vocabulary Words:

Mountainous Humid Flat Dry Meals Staple Foods Grasslands Crops

Mountainous

Land with a lot of mountains

adjective

Sentence: Parts of Africa is very mountainous.

Synonyms: hillyAntonyms: flat

Humid

Hot with a lot of water in the air.

adjective

Sentence: It is very humid in New York in the summer time.

Synonym: hot, wet, moistAntonyms: dry

Flat

Land with no mountains or valleys

adjectiveSentence: Deserts are usually flat pieces of land.

Antonym:

Dry

No water adjective

Sentence: Deserts are very dry.

Antonym: Wet, moist

Meals What you eat three times a day. Noun

Sentence: We should all eat three meals every day.

Synonyms: Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast

Staple Foods

The most important, main food of a culture.

noun

Sentence: The staple food in America is bread and pasta.

Grasslands

Land with a lot of grass

noun

Sentence: Grasslands are great for farming and raising animals.

Synonym: grass fields

Antonym: desert

Crops

Plants that you grow and farm for food.

Sentences: It is difficult to grow crops in dry deserts.

Synonym: food

Crop Circles

Agree or Disagree:1. The desert is very moist.2. The antonym for mountainous is

vertical.3. It is humid in the winter time.4. United States of America is a

country.5. The Middle East is a continent.

If you disagree, change the sentence so that you would agree.

Homework #4:

One sentence for each vocabulary word in the PAST TENSE.