Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward
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11a Globe-trotting<br />
Date:<br />
Can do (tick ✓)<br />
I can name a range of geographical features correctly.<br />
I can use the correctly when talking about geographical names.<br />
I can recognize ways to avoid repetition in a text.<br />
I can understand detailed information in a historical text.<br />
Geography<br />
Are you good at geography Are you someone who usually knows the location of capital cities,<br />
rivers, mountain ranges, etc.<br />
Where am I<br />
Can you solve these geography puzzles<br />
3<br />
1<br />
Chinese achievements<br />
Q<br />
I’m on top of a snow-capped<br />
mountain – it’s the highest in<br />
Africa. I’m in Tanzania but to the<br />
north I can see Kenya.<br />
Q<br />
I’m travelling on water but the<br />
craft has no engine. A man is<br />
standing behind me with a long<br />
pole, pushing us along. We are<br />
travelling through a historic city.<br />
2<br />
Which of these things were invented by the Chinese<br />
They started building this in<br />
220 BC. It’s made of limestone<br />
and granite and is over 6,000<br />
kilometres long. Despite the<br />
popular rumour, it isn’t visible<br />
from the moon!<br />
Q<br />
Q<br />
printing gunpowder (explosives) spaghetti the iPod paper-making kites<br />
the compass (direction-finding) fireworks seismograph (earth uake detector)<br />
the wheelbarrow tea drinking paper money<br />
5<br />
4<br />
Q<br />
I’m in the capital of the biggest<br />
country on this continent, but<br />
they only started building it in<br />
1956! When I go shopping, I<br />
need to speak Portuguese.<br />
I’m standing by the edge of the Sea of<br />
Showers, though curiously it has never<br />
ever rained here. Two explorers, David<br />
Scott and James Irwin came here for the<br />
first time in 1971 and drove around in a<br />
special car to study me.<br />
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