10. Prepare your own reports about different deserts so that they include the following information:

• Location;

• Climate and type of the desert;

• Flora and fauna;

• Tourist attractions;

• Economic aspect.

11.  Work with the following on-line quizzes:

Mountain Ranges

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/mountainmaps/MountainRanges.html

Mountains

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/mountainmaps/mountains.html

http://www.triv.net/html/Users4/u11911.htm

http://www.virted.org/MAPS&GLOBES/MountainsQuiz.html

http://www.canyonsmountains.com/quiz.php

http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/mountains/1.html

Deserts

http://www.nature.org/earth/deserts/quiz.html

http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_276/deserts_of_the_world_quiz.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_2176000/2176652.stm

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz106681c38bc0.html

http://members.aol.com/pakulda/dsquiz.htm

Unit 3 oceans and seas

1. Vocabulary. Find the names from the list on the map.

SEAS

Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Arabian Sea Aral Sea Baltic Sea Bering Sea Caribbean Sea

Caspian Sea Dead Sea East China Sea Indonesian Sea Ionian Sea Barents Sea Marmara Sea

Mediterranean Sea Philippine Sea Red Sea Sea of Azow Chukchee Sea Sea of Japan Bellingshausen Sea

Sea of Okhotsk Bering Sea South China Sea Tyrrhenian Sea Laptev Sea White Sea Yellow Sea

Islands

Aland islands – between eastern Sweden and southwestern Finland

Aleutian islands – the Northern Pacific Ocean, part of Alaska

Antilles – the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast — comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Bahamas, though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands

Azores – a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean

Bahamas – in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida and the United States, north of Cuba and the Caribbean

Balearic Islands – an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula

Barbados – situated just east of the Caribbean Sea in the western Atlantic Ocean

Bermuda islands – in the North Atlantic Ocean, the east coast of the United States

Borneo – the third largest island in the world that is considered to be part of the geographic region of Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. In Indonesia today, the island is referred to as Kalimantan

Canary islands – an archipelago of the Kingdom of Spain consisting of seven islands of volcanic origin in the Atlantic Ocean. They are located off the north-western coast of Africa

Cape Verde islands – an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa

Caroline islands – a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea

Channel islands – in the English Channel, off the coast of France

Corfu – a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It lies off the coast of Albania

Corsica – the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located southwest of Italy, southeast of France, and north of the island of Sardinia

Crete – the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean

Cyprus – in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey

Easter island – a Chilean island in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern tip of the Polynesian triangle

Elba – an island in Tuscany, Italy

Falkland islands – an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles (483 km) from the coast of Argentina

Faroe islands – a group of islands in Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about halfway from Iceland to Norway

Fiji islands – an archipelago of about 322 islands in the South Pacific Ocean

Gotland – the second largest island in the Baltic Sea after Zealand

Hawaii – an archipelago situated in the North Pacific Ocean)

Isle of Man – in the Irish Sea

Jan Mayen – a part of the Kingdom of Norway, in the Arctic Ocean, partly covered by glaciers

Java – an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta

Jersey – off the coast of Normandy, France

Kuril(e) islands – in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, are a volcanic island archipelago that stretches approximately 1,300 km (700 miles) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean

Madagascar – in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa

Madeira – in the north Atlantic Ocean, belongs to Portugal

Majorca – the largest island of Spain. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea and part of the Balearic Islands archipelago

Malta – in the Mediterranean Sea

Mariana islands – up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves") are an archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean

Marquesas islands – a group of islands in French Polynesia

Martinique – an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea

Mauritius – an island off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean

Minorca – one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, belongs to Spain

Molucca islands – The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Moluccan Islands, the Spice Islands or simply Maluku) are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago

Orkneys – an island group in northern Scotland

Philippines – The Philippine Archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean

Sardinia – second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea

Shetland islands – an archipelago to the north-east of Orkney and mainland Scotland

Sicily – the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea

Solomon islands – east of Papua New Guinea

Sri Lanka – (known as Ceylon before 1972) in South Asia, located off the southern coast of India

Sulawesi – formerly more commonly known as Celebes. One of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands

Sumatra – the largest island entirely in Indonesia. Two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia

Tahiti – the largest island of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean

Taiwan – in East Asia

Tasmania – located south of the eastern side of Australia, being separated from it by Bass Strait

Timor – an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor

Tsushima – an island in Japan, situated in the Tsushima Strait

Wight – off the Southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire, between the Solent and the English Channel