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These reading, writing and labelling activities help pupils learn about the cities, countries and continents of our planet. Worksheets introduce key geographical concepts and vocabulary you won't find in standard young learners EFL materials.
FREE 'try before you buy' geography resources: symbols on maps, deserts and rainforests.
Teaches the geographical features of Spain and other key facts about the country, including its currency and capital city.
Helps young learners develop map-reading skills and spatial awareness. Pupils use a grid map and cardinal directions to measure distances and find places in a town. Teacher’s notes provide step-by-step instructions and suggestions for additional map-reading exercises and classroom activities.
A labelling activity familiarises pupils with the common icons and geographical symbols found on maps, while consolidating vocabulary such as: church, museum, monument and bus stop. Pupils then describe their route to school using prepositions of movement.
Type: general lesson plan
Challenging activity in which pupils label pictures of the Earth according to which parts are in sunlight at midday. They then examine a map and answer questions about different time zones in different parts of the USA. Includes step-by-step teacher guidance and project ideas.
Type: general lesson plan
Through engaging map-labelling activities pupils name the major capital cities of the European Union and the countries and cities that make up the United Kingdom.
Type: general lesson plan
After completing this worksheet pupils will be more familiar with working with maps, understanding cardinal points and proportional scales. Two exercises encourage pupils to label a map based on given coordinates and predict where six children are going. Includes project ideas.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils match adjectives such as 'strong', 'flammable', 'transparent' and 'waterproof ' to their definitions. A chart activity asks them to tick the characteristics of common materials. Gap fill exercises consolidate vocabulary and concepts learnt. Includes project ideas.
Type: general lesson plan
Suitable for pupils already familiar with ecosystems and food chains. Pupils label pictures of sea creatures, compare land food chains with sea food chains and colour a picture of sea creatures according to whether they are producers, primary consumers or secondary consumers. Includes project ideas.
Type: general lesson plan
Help young learners distinguish left from right, learn to read maps and practise everyday vocabulary. Pupils use directions to draw playground objects on a map and identify the position of objects in relation to one another.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils pinpoint objects from an aerial view, and draw and compare their own aerial map using a text description. Improves map-reading skills and reinforces vocabulary words for familiar places such as ‘library’, ‘classroom’ and ‘park’.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils learn about the effect of the wind and the sea on the landscape. They see how a cliff is formed by the pounding of waves and how stones and rocks are broken down to make the sand on a beach.
Type: general lesson plan
Colouring-in and classifying activities introduce the notion that humans can change the landscape by building houses, bridges and roads. Encourages pupils to distinguish between what is natural in their environment and what has been shaped by human intervention.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils examine school calendars for Spain and Australia in order to understand the consequences of seasonal differences on the yearly school timetable. Includes true/false exercise and comprehension-check questions.
Type: general lesson plan
Consolidates the names of eight countries in the European Union by asking pupils to colour and label flags then label a map. Includes project ideas.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils use the present continuous to describe the weather and practise vocabulary for the months, the seasons and clothes.
Type: general lesson plan
Teach pupils about the Earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere.
Type: general lesson plan
Reading and writing activities on the many types of trees that grow in Spain and their impact on the environment and economy.
Type: general lesson plan
Students read texts and practise forming sentences while learning about river ecosystems and geography.
Type: general lesson plan
Teaches students about wolves, lynxes and other endangered animals, and highlights the importance of protecting the environment.
Type: general lesson plan
Information-gap and mapping exercises on Spain’s different climate types and principal mountain ranges.
Type: general lesson plan
Matching and true/false exercises to teach about the course of a river and review the present simple tense.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils learn the main features of mountains and key vocabulary words such as ‘climate’ and ‘vegetation’.
Type: general lesson plan
Teaches the main features of cities and the present simple tense.
Type: general lesson plan
By meeting children from Mongolia, Greenland, Shanghai and Chile pupils learn how the houses we live in reveal key information about our environment. Key vocabulary includes: igloo, ger, skyscraper and farmhouse.
Type: general lesson plan
Information-gap and word-ordering exercises on the Amazon rainforest and Sahara desert ecosystems.
Type: general lesson plan
Pupils examine school calendars for Spain and Australia in order to understand the consequences of seasonal differences on the yearly school timetable. Includes true/false exercise and comprehension-check questions.
Type: general lesson plan
Helps young learners develop map-reading skills and spatial awareness. Pupils use a grid map and cardinal directions to measure distances and find places in a town. Teacher’s notes provide step-by-step instructions and suggestions for additional map-reading exercises and classroom activities.
Type: general lesson plan
This worksheet includes three matching and labelling activities to teach useful verbs and nouns often used when talking about computers e.g. 'cut', 'copy', 'paste', 'screen', 'printer', 'keyboard', etc. as well as the symbols that represent them.
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