Unit 2. Colorful lands and Colorful People

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. -est.

Vocabulary: peninsula, altitude, trench, Greenland, the Sahara Desert, the Caspian Sea, Lake Superior, Mt.Qomolangma (Mt.Everest), Baykal, Mariana Trench, the Nile.

Here are some statements of some superlative world geographical statistics.

Listen carefully and complete the following chart.

Pay special attention to the numbers.

The biggest continent in the world is Asia.

It covers 16,998,000 square miles.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean with 64,186,300 square miles.