Name: ______________Grade: ____________

Subject: ENGLISH Date : ____________

WHAT MAKES YOUR REGION UNIQUES?

A. VOCABULARIES
Study these vocabularies below and make sure that you’ve understood!
Discuss with your teacher!
 Feature (a typical quality or an important part of something)
 Temperature (the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body)
 Vegetation (plants in general, or plants that are found in particular area)
 Landscape (a large area of countryside, especially in relation to its appearance)
 Polar (realting to the noert or south pole or the areas around them)
 Lifestyle (someone’s way of living; the things that a person or particular group of people usually
do)
 Tundra (the very large area of land in North asia, North America, and nothern Europe where,
because it’s cold, trees don’t grow and ground below the surface is pemanently frozen)
 Flora (all the plants of a particular place or from particular time in history)
 Fauna (all the animals that live wild in a particular area)
 Tropical (characteristic of the tropics ; the hottest area of the earth)
Play “describing word” by using the vocabularies above!
1. Choose the vocabulary.
2. Descibe it to your friend by using a sentence.
3. Your friends need to guess what the vocabulary is.
4. If your friend still cannot answer you can add a sentence more.
5. Do it till your friend guess it correctly.
Read this text and find out the meaning of “REGION”
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

A region is an area of land that has common features.

These features can be natural, such as climate or
landscape. They can also be artificial, such as language
or religion. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
is an area of China inhabited by Uyghurs, a Muslim
group with ethnic ties to Turkish people.

1. What is the correct definiton of a region?

a. A part of earth’s surface that shares similar features.
b. An area inside one country that has unique features.
c. The area inside a country where we live.

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 2. Pay attention to these pictures and find the answer! Discuss with your friends!

a. Do any of these places look like the region where you

live? .............................................................................................................................................
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b. How are the places similar and
different? ......................................................................................................................................
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c. What would be the advantages or disadvantages of living these
regions? ........................................................................................................................................
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3. This is where you live.
Your friends, Maasai and Inuit have come to visit your city or the city near you. Write what
they’re thinking in each buble!
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B. READING and WRITING

Reading Strategy: Compare and Contrast.

 Compare means looking for things that are similar.
 Contast means looking fot things that are different.

1. Read Zoe’s report. Underline things that are similar in green and things that are different in red!

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Tundras and Dessert are both areas that receive very little rain. As a result, there is little
vegetation and less biodiversity tahn in other regions, such as forest and grasslands.

TUNDRAS
Tundras are extremely cold areas. They are found in the Artic, Antarctica,
and on the top of very high mountains. Tundras are covered in snow for
many months of the year. When the snow melts in the summer, some
small plants can grow in the top of soil. Trees cannot grow because the
deeper layers of soil stay pemanently frozen. Animals that live in tundra
regions include mice, deer and the artic fox.
DESERT
Desert are the driest areas on earth. The soil is usually rocky or sandy, and
there isn’t much vegetation. Desert can be extremely hot, like the Sahara
Desert in Africa, or cold, like the Gobi Desert in China. Animals that live
in the desert often live underground, and they are usually active at night.
They include rats, snakes, lizards, and foxes.

Taken from Cambridge Path 6 page 8

2. Answer the questions below!

a. Where are Tundras found? .............................................................................................................
b. Why are Tundras extremely
cold? ...............................................................................................................................................
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c. Why can’t trees grow in
Tundras? .........................................................................................................................................
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d. What animals live in Tundra
regions? ............................................................................................
e. How is the soil in Desert? ..............................................................................................................
f. Mention 2 Desert which are written in the text! ............................................................................
g. What animals live in Desert regions? ...........................................................................................
h. How are the animals that live in
Desert? ..........................................................................................................................................
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3. Copy and complete the diagram with the information you underlined!

TUNDRA BOTH DESSERT

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C. GRAMMAR
Subject : Passive Voice.
Basic form of passive voice : be + past participle (v3)
Example : - Berber textile are made of wool
Study the form below!

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1. Re-write them by using PRESENT SIMPLE PASSIVE!
Example :
 They grow coffee in Brazil.
- The coffee is grown by them in Brazil
a. He examines patients on the second
floor. .........................................................................................................................................
b. She feeds the animal twice a
day. .........................................................................................................................................
c. They deliver the newspaper in the
morning. .........................................................................................................................................
d. We lend books only to the
students. .........................................................................................................................................

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 e. England makes the best
computers. ......................................................................................................................................
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f. I sometimes stay in this
house. .........................................................................................................................................
g. He doesn’t spend money on
magazines. ......................................................................................................................................
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h. I don’t make lunch on
Sundays. .........................................................................................................................................
i. People don’t speak Spanish in
Italy. .........................................................................................................................................
j. She doesn’t teach French in all
schools. .........................................................................................................................................
2. Re-write them by using PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE!
Example :
 He found the child in the park
- The child was found by him in the park.
a. They broke the glasses with a
stone .........................................................................................................................................
b. She saw the mouse in the
afternoon. .......................................................................................................................................
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c. Somebody pushed Mary into the
water. .........................................................................................................................................
d. People from all over the world visited the
museum. .........................................................................................................................................
e. They flew the planes in the
morning. .........................................................................................................................................
f. We translated the book into
english. .........................................................................................................................................
g. I didn’t take the photographs at the
beach. .........................................................................................................................................
h. The guards didn’t lock the back
door. .........................................................................................................................................
i. She didn’t sing the song after the
ceremony. .......................................................................................................................................
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j. He didn’t grow the tomatoes in his
garden. .........................................................................................................................................

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3. Re-write them by using PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE!
Example :
 I have finished the homework.
- The homework has been finished by me.
a. The dog has drunk the
medicine. ........................................................................................................................................
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b. The girls have ironed the
clothes. .........................................................................................................................................
c. I have read the
book. .........................................................................................................................................
d. Zack has broken another
plate. .........................................................................................................................................
e. My e-pal friend has sent 4 leters for this
week. .........................................................................................................................................
f. They’ve accepted the
invitation ........................................................................................................................................
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g. She hasn’t known Jane for the long
time. .........................................................................................................................................
h. My dad hasn’t bought me the new
phone. .........................................................................................................................................
4. Fill in the PASSIVE in the appropriate tense!
Example : (TV / invent / Baird) …….. TV was invented by Baird. ……………..
a. (Pyramids / build / Egyptians) ………………………………………………….
b. (milk / produce / cows) ………………………………………………….
c. (coffee / grow / in Brazil) …………………………………………………
d. (chopsticks / use / in China) …………………………………………………
e. (plants / water / every day) ………………………………………………..
f. (the thief / arrest / policeman / yesterday) ………………………………………………..
g. (the injured man / take to a hospital / now) ………………………………………………..
h. (the car / repair / for 3 days) …………………………………………………
i. (the letter /already/ send ) …………………………………………………