Unit 4 Title: In The Community

Técnico en la Enseñanza del Ingles

Conversation II

Prof.: Luis A. Vallarino – 2013-3

What are the four main compass directions?

North is always at the top followed by east. One way to remember the order of the four main compass directions is to make up a rhyme e.g. naughty elephants squirt water.

Make up your own rhyme to help you remember these directions.

What are the eight main compass directions?

1.Look at the simple map on the left.

What direction must Philip go to get to the following places?

I.The factoryII.SchoolIII.The Football GroundIV.Sara’s House

2. What direction is it from:

I.School to the football groundII.Sara’s house to the factoryIII.Football ground to the factory

Sara’s House Football Ground

Philip School

The Factory

Local – Area immediately around us.

Regional – County.

National – Country.

Global – World Wide.

What do we mean by location?

ITT – What information should we include when describing the location of a city?

Try to think of three pieces of information that you could include when describing the location of a city or an address within the community.

PW – Share your ideas

Using your shared ideas write a description of the location of Hull. You can use an Atlas to help.

How does a good

geographer describe the location of a

city?

Site and situation!

Site – the reason why the place was chosen for a city.

Example – Hull was chosen for a site for a settlement because it is a near a river. Therefore, fishing developed and jobs were available for people.

Situation – where a place is in relation to other places.

Example – Hull is located 40kms to the east of York.

London is situated in the south east of England. It is located on the River Thames. London is situated 75km south east of Oxford. The M25 runs around London. A number of other motorways lead to London. These include the M1, M11 and M23.

London is sited here because the land is flat and easy to build on. Being located on a river London developed as a port. This created many jobs so people moved to the area.

You could also produce a sketch map to show where a place is (situation) and main reasons why it is located here (site) . You could colour code site and situation factors e.g. all factors relating to the site could be written in blue and all factors relating to the situation could be written in red

Main Ideas

Specific Information

Listening

Vocabulary

All the online activities are also find in the book called Interactions 1 by Judith Tanka and Paul Most, McGraw Hill, 2010. Chapter 4.