LESSON 5

THE WATERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES

ACTIVITY 1

a. The Students watch a video https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-

19731792 so as to answer the tasks below?
 Describe what you’ve seen in the video.
 Say whether what you have seen is natural, unexpected,
harmful or beneficial.
 What were the reactions of the people in the video?
b. The teacher conducts feedback and explains that river floods
can occur when river levels rise to overflow the channel.
Studying the river's drainage basin can help to explain why
floods occur. The teacher shows the diagram of a drainage
basin (worksheet) and see whether students can recall the key
features - watershed, source, tributary, mouth and confluence
– from their prior learning. The students perform task A.1 and
2 from worksheet 2.

ACTIVITY 2

a. The students use the map from worksheet 2 so as to name:

 Two main rivers in Wales………………..
 Two main rivers in Scotland
 Four main rivers in England
b. The students(having the teacher’s support and the link
https://www.mapsofworld.com/united-kingdom/united-kingdom-
river-map.html)
fill in the gaps on the map (see UK seas and rivers worksheet)