Unit 3 Different economic systems
WARMING-UP
1. Work in groups or as a class. Discuss the following questions:
Where do you come from?
What is your nationality?
What part of the world is your country in?
2. Work with a partner. Ask him/her if he has friends or relatives from Ukraine abroad. What countries are they from? What nationalities are they?
3. In geography and economics we often refer to the parts of the world rather than list countries by name, e.G. The Middle East. Below there are 24 countries. List them under these five headings:
Latin-American; (b) North African; (c) South-East Asian; (d) Balkan; (e) East-Asian.
Libya
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Venezuela |
Brazil |
Albania |
Thailand
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Philippines |
Macedonia |
Bosnia |
Rumania
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Ecuador |
Viet Nam |
Columbia |
China
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Korea |
Indonesia |
Croatia |
Bulgaria
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Mexico |
Algeria |
Egypt |
Japan |
Argentina |
Serbia |
Marocco |
4. Work in pairs. What do you call someone who comes from each of these countries?
Sweden |
Norway |
Japan |
Spain |
India |
France |
Switzerland |
Italy |
Canada |
Turkey |
5. Fill in the gaps:
Country |
Capital |
Language |
Nationality |
Currency |
Austria |
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Belgium |
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Denmark |
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Finland |
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Germany |
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Greece |
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Hungary |
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Poland |
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Ukraine |
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