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    This document provides information about English-speaking countries through three handouts that define key terms, give corresponding words, and provide a fact file comparing the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The handouts define terms like continent, capital, inhabitant, area, population, indigenous, border, hemisphere, and peak. The fact file then provides details for each country's official name, capital city, large cities, borders, surrounding seas/oceans, total area, and population.

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    This document provides information about English-speaking countries through three handouts that define key terms, give corresponding words, and provide a fact file comparing the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The handouts define terms like continent, capital, inhabitant, area, population, indigenous, border, hemisphere, and peak. The fact file then provides details for each country's official name, capital city, large cities, borders, surrounding seas/oceans, total area, and population.

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    The Nature of English

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    This document provides information about English-speaking countries through three handouts that define key terms, give corresponding words, and provide a fact file comparing the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The handouts define terms like continent, capital, inhabitant, area, population, indigenous, border, hemisphere, and peak. The fact file then provides details for each country's official name, capital city, large cities, borders, surrounding seas/oceans, total area, and population.

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    The nature of English-speaking countries

    Handout 1
    continent capital inhabitant
    area population indigenous
    border (to border on) hemisphere peak
    to be washed by strait
    to locate (to be located in) mountain range

    Handout 2
    Give the corresponding words for the following definitions.
    1. … - a person who lives in a town or country
    2. … - situate in a particular place
    3. … - a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth
    4. … - a line separating two countries
    5. … - a narrow passage of water connecting two seas
    6. … - a chain of mountains
    7. … - one of the earth's large land masses (Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, North
    and South America, and Antarctica)
    8. … - a region or part of a town, a country, or the world
    9. … - all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
    10.… - a half of a sphere (the earth)
    11.… - the pointed top of a mountain
    12.… - the most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of
    government and administrative center

    Handout 3 Fact file

    The UK The USA Canada Australia New


    Zealand
    Official The Unite the United Canada is the Commonwealt New
    name of d States of a country h of Australia Zealand
    the Kingdom America in North
    country of Great America.
    Britain and
    Northern
    Ireland
    Capital London Washingto Ottawa Canberra Wellington
    city n
    Large Manchester, New York, Los Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, are
    cities Liverpool, Angeles, Montreal, Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland,
    Birmingham, Chicago, Vancouver Perth Wellington,
    Glasgow, Philadelpia Christchurch
    Aberdeen, , Dunedin,
    Perth Nelson.
    Borders Republic of Canada to the USA Indonesia, East New
    Ireland north, and Timor and Papua New Caledonia,
    Mexico to the Guinea  Fiji and
    south. Tonga.

    Washed Atlantic Atlantic Pacific


    by seas Ocean, North Ocean. Pacific Ocean.
    Sea, English Ocean Atlantic
    and oceans Channel, and Ocean. Arctic
    the Irish Sea. Ocean
    The total 243,610 more than 3.5 At 9.98 The area of this country The total land
    area square million square million is 7,687,000 square area is around
    kilometers miles square kilometers. 270 550
    kilometers in square
    total kilometres
    Population The total The The Nearly 20 million people The total
    population of population is population o live in Australia. population of
    the United 317 million f Canada is New Zealand
    Kingdom is people about 25 is 4.5.
    around million
    63,182,000 people
    Inhabitant
    s
    Mountains Pennine The The Kimbеrley. Hamerslay Southern
    Appalachians Cordillera Alps.
    region
    The Ben Nevis Alaska's Logan. Kosciusko Cook
    highest Mount Mount
    McKinley McKinley
    peak (Denali).
    Rivers Thames Colora the Murray. Darling Clutha
    do, Columbia, Great Bear Waikato.
    Mississippi, Lake, the
    Missouri, Ohio Great Slave
    and the Rio Lake and the
    Grande.  Great Lakes
    District. The
    largest rivers
    are the
    Nelson, the
    Ottawa, the
    Mackenzie
    and the
    Yukon.

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