Thematic Unit: Cultural Wonders 5th and 6th Grade

1-Look at the chart and make comparisons:

For example: Uruguay is smaller than New Zealand. Uruguay is the smallest country.

Countries where English is a de facto official language

Country Region Area Primary language?

Australia Oceania 7,692,024 km2 Yes

New Zealand Oceania 268,021 km2 Yes

England Europe 63,705,000 Yes

United States North America 318,224,000 Yes

Scotland Europe 77,933 km2 Yes

2-Read the text and complete the chart:

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the
island of Great Britain. The mainland of Scotland comprises the northern third of the land mass
of the island of Great Britain, which lies off the north-west coast of Continental Europe. The
total area is 78,772 km2 comparable to the size of the Czech Republic.

The population of Scotland at the 2001 Census was 5,062,011. This rose to 5,295,400, the
highest ever, at the 2011 Census. Although Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the largest city
is Glasgow, which has just over 584,000 inhabitants.

Scotland has three officially recognized languages: English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic. Scottish
Standard English, a variety of English as spoken in Scotland, is at one end of a bipolar linguistic
continuum, with broad Scots at the other.

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