1) Complete the description of a country. What is the country?

My _____________ is quite big (for Europe) with more than 500.000

square kilometres. The _____________ is forty-seven million.
Our_____________ city is Madrid and I live there. In the _____________, it is
sometimes quite cold and snowy. In the ____________, it is usually very
sunny and hot (sometimes it is 40 °C in August!). In the north, there are
some lovely forests and ______________ parks. In the south and east, there
are fantastic beaches.

2) Read the article. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?

Tanzania is a large country in East Africa. It has an area of 945,203 square kilometres and a population of
nearly 44 million. Most people think the capital is Dar es Salaam in the east of the country but that is wrong.
The capital is Dodoma.
The weather in Tanzania is hot all year round. The coolest months are
usually June to October and the hottest December to March. Tanzania has
the highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro – and it also has 804
kilometres of beautiful white beaches. It produces coffee, tea and cotton.
Many people think Tanzania is the most beautiful country in Africa. Most
tourists go there because it is famous for its wild animals, for example lions,
elephants, cheetahs, hippos, buffalo and wildebeest. They can see these
animals in the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater in the
north of the country and the Selous Game Reserve in the south-east.
The island of Zanzibar is part of Tanzania. It has a population of 1.1 million
and an area of 2,332 square kilometres. The weather on the island is very hot all year round but March to
June is the rainy season and there is another short rainy season from September to November. Zanzibar
has an interesting history. The Arab people went there over a thousand years ago and then the Persians
arrived four hundred years later. In 1500 the Portuguese came to the island. In the 1700s Oman controlled
the island and in 1890 it became part of the British Empire.

1 Tanzania’s population is 4.4 million. ____

2 The capital is Dar es Salaam. ____
3 The highest African mountain is in Tanzania. ____
4 The month of January is usually cooler than the month of July. ____
5 The Ngorongoro Crater is in the north of the country. ____
6 More than a thousand years ago Arab people came to Zanzibar. ____
7 The Persians controlled Zanzibar in the 1500s. ____