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GEOGRAPHICAL CONTRASTS
READING



1. Which of the items below world you expect to find in
the desert and which in the polar region?


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Atacama salt flatAntartic

- Cactus - Hielo
- Erosion - Pingüinos
- Rocas- Nieve
- Arena
- Dunas




2. Which words look or sound similar in Spanish?

Average Continent Desert Fertile Glacier

Island Mineral Snow ValleyVast Zone


Answer: Continent - Continente
Desert - Desierto
Fertile - Fertil
Glacier - Glaciar
Island - IslaMineral - Mineral
Valley - Valle
Zone - Zona
3. Considering the pictures and the title of the lesson,
what country do you think the textyou are going to
read is about.

Answer: Considering the reading and the pictures with
the imagenes refer to Chile by his desert of
Atacama (north) and theAntartic (south).


4. Choose three adjectives from the box to describe
Each picture. Use a dictionary if necessary. Then say/ sentences about the places using them.


Example:“The picture on the left shows a moon-like landscape”.


. arid . barren . beautiful . bleak . cold . deserted . dry

. empty . frozen . glacial . harmonious . icy .inhospitable

. magnificent . moon-like . scorching . snowy . white

Answer:
Antartic

1. In the Antartic does a lot cold.
2. The antartic isa place snowy and very icy.
3. The place most white of Chile is the Antartic.

Desert of Atacama

1. The Atacama desert is the place most arid of the world....