7 metodika indd

Answer key:

1 You can travel from France to England by car. 2 We are planning a trip to the mountains.

3. 
   The longest journey starts with a single step.
   
4. 
   When I travel to different countries, I take a lot of pictures. 5 I’m very tired after the long journey.
   

6 The boat trip was interesting.

Lesson 4 The Silk Road

Aims	Learning outcomes	Vocabulary and structure	Required equipment
Educational: to learn about The Great Silk Road Developing: to enable pupils to talk about the Great Silk Road; to develop reading and listening skills Socio-cultural: to raise awareness of The Great Silk Road, some geographic facts of the world, e.g. the area of the Aral Sea, the population in Asia and Africa, etc.	By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: talk about The Great Silk Road; use a new form of comparison; say the names of countries in Asia and Central Asia.	Recycling the previously learnt vocabulary New words: ancient, route	Textbook; the DVD of the book

Homework checking. 5 min

Activity 1a Work in pairs. Do the quiz. 8 min

Objective: to stimulate pupils’ interest and ideas about the topic

STEP 1: The pupils in pairs answer the questions.

STEP 2: Check the answers involving the whole class.

Answer key:

1. 
   Is the Aral Sea as big now as it was in 1960?
   

No. Formerly, it was the fourth largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 sq km. The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were

diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 1997, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes: the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea, and one smaller intermediate lake. By 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake had retreated to a thin strip at the western edge of the former southern sea; in subsequent years, occasional water flows have led to the southeastern lake sometimes being replenished to a small degree. Now it is only 8,000 sq km. Satellite images taken by NASA in August 2014 revealed that for the first time in modern history the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had completely dried up. The eastern basin is now called the Aralkum Desert.

2. 
   Is the Amu Darya as long as the Syr Darya?
   

No. The Amu Darya is shorter than the Syr Darya. The Amu Darya is 1,415 km long, and the Syr Darya is 2,212 km long.

3. 
   Is the Indian Ocean as big as the Pacific Ocean?
   

No. The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world’s oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 square kilometres. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s oceanic divisions, covering 165,250,000 square kilometres.

4. 
   Is the population in Asia as big as in Africa?
   

No. The population in Asia is bigger than in Africa. Asia – 4,462,676,731 (2016 year); Africa – 1,225,080,510 (2016 year)

3. 
   Is Mount Kilimanjaro as high as Mount Everest?
   

No. Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, with a peak at 8,850 metres high, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa is 4,895metres.