Angličtina pro geografy I
Course materials and homework week XII.
Map and Globe Terms
I. Work in your pairs and try to explain the following terms.
Prime meridian _________________________________________
Latitude _______________________________________________
Longitude ______________________________________________
International Date Line __________________________________
Listen to and watch the video and try to answer Qs and fill in the missing information.
a) Why is the International Date Line not straight? __________________________________________________________________
b) What time and day is in London? ______________________________________
c) Moving westward from the prime meridian we will .......................... time.
d) Moving eastward we have to ............................................................
e) Traveling east or west of the line changes the ....................................................
f) What happens to a traveler who crosses the international date line eastward? __________________________________________________________________
II. Location
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
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Listen to and watch the second video and correct mistakes in these two texts.
a) Absolute location is expressed by latitude and longitude coordinates. In that it is different from a person´ s address. Every city has a special set of coordinates. You can find absolute location in the populated places of the world. Los Angeles is located on 34´ North latitude and 118´ East longitude. Paris is located on 59´ North latitude and 2´ East longitude. Cape Town is located 34’South longitude and 18´ West latitude.
b) Relative location describes a place only in terms of the things surrounding it. London is located on the Thames river, a major motorway. This river influenced its development. Sea vessels are the most common mode of transport today. Rivers were important to many other cities. New Orleans grew because it lies at the spring of the Mississippi river. Railways also influenced the development, for example in Detroit. Similarly to an absolute location, also a relative location can change over time. Boom towns in America grew around the gold mines, they changed into ghost towns when people died of diseases and malnutrition.
Map and Globe Terms KEY
Work in your pairs and try to explain the following terms.
Prime meridian ________________0 meridian_________________________
Latitude _____________________šířka__________________________
Longitude ____________________délka__________________________
International Date Line __________180th meridian________________________
Listen to and watch the video and try to answer Qs and fill in the missing information.
g) Why is the International Date Line not straight? ____________________to avoid problems in the same island or continent_______________
h) What time and day is it in London? ___________Tuesday noon____________
i) Moving westward from the prime meridian we will .count off................... time.
j) Moving eastward we have to .....................count forward.......................
k) Traveling east or west of the line changes the ..................calendar day...................
l) What happens to a traveler who crosses the international date line eastward? ____________________gains a day____________________________
II. Location
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
__________________________________________________________________________
Listen to and watch the second video and correct mistakes in these two texts.
a) Absolute location is expressed by latitude and longitude coordinates. In that it is similar from a person´ s address. Every city has a unique set of coordinates. You can find absolute location everywhere in the world. Los Angeles is located on 34´ North latitude and 118´ West longitude. Paris is located on 49´ North latitude and 2´ East longitude. Cape Town is located 34ˇSouth latitude and 18´ East longitude.
b) Relative location describes a place in terms of the relation to other places and things surrounding it. London is located on the Thames river, a major waterway. This river influenced its development. Sea vessels were the most common mode of transport in the past. Rivers were important to many other cities. New Orleans grew because it lies at the mouth of the Mississippi river. Railways also influenced the development, for example in Chicago. Unlike absolute location, relative location can change over time. Boom towns in America grew around the gold mines, they changed into ghost towns when people moved away.
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Atlantis: Where is the Lost Continent? |
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa090301b.htm
Some say it's in the Caribbean, some say at the South Pole, while others say it never existed at all. But an astonishing recent discovery off the coast of Cuba just might solve the mystery of the great sunken civilization
a) Pre-reading. Answer these questions.
1) What do you know about Atlantis?
2) Where was it located?
3) Why and when was it destroyed?
4) Do you think it is worth looking for it?
b) Reading. Match paragraphs with their headings.
1) Efforts to find the sunken island
2) Some theories on the location of the island
3) Not very clear description of the location
4) Plato´ s description of the island
c) Go back to questions 1-4 and supplement your answers.
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A)The legend of the lost civilization of Atlantis comes to us primarily from an account recorded by Plato, the great Greek philosopher and author, around 370 B.C. He described it as a beautiful continent-sized island that existed somewhere to the west of the Mediterranean, by most interpretations. It was a peaceful land, prosperous from its flourishing commerce, highly advanced in knowledge and technology, and powerful in its governmental influence. After many years of prosperity, however, the gods looked unfavorably upon the island nation because of its arrogant rulers and complacent citizenry, and they condemned it. In just one dreadful day and night, Plato tells us, Atlantis was completely destroyed by catastrophic flooding and disappeared beneath the sea.
B)Plato's description of the exact location of Atlantis is vague at best, giving us only its general direction. People have been searching for it ever since.
C)The idea that such a marvelous lost world may have once existed - and about which we know so little and have even less evidence - is compelling. People have devoted their lives to studying, researching and hunting for Atlantis. A lucrative cottage industry has grown around the legend, producing countless books, articles, websites and movies - all speculating on the true fate of the doomed land.
D)Did Atlantis really exist? If so, where was it and can we find evidence of the once-great civilization today? Not surprisingly, there are many theories as to the precise location of Atlantis. Whenever underwater ruins of any kind are found, it seems, someone tries to link them to Atlantis.
e) Read this part of the text and fill in the missing words. Do you think the story could be true?
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Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle Crystal relates one 1…….. story about a discovery made by Dr. Ray Brown in 1970 while 2…….. diving near the Bari Islands in the Bahamas. Brown claims that he came upon a pyramid-like structure with a smooth, mirror-like stone finish. Swimming inside, he found the 3…….. to be completely free of coral and algae, and was 4…………… by some unknown light source. In the center was a 5………. of human hands holding a four-inch crystal sphere, above which was suspended a red gem at the end of a brass rod. Brown says he took the crystal, which allegedly has strange, 6……… powers. "People have felt 7………. or winds blowing close to it," the article says. "Both cold and warm layers 8……….. it at various distances. Other witnesses have observed 9………. lights, heard voices or felt strange tingling sensations surrounding it." Brown's story, of course, has yet to be 10…………. or verified.
f) Decide whether these statements are true or false.
1) The theory that Atlantis is Antarctica is quite new.
2) It is generally believed that the Antarctica was a tropical land.
3) It could have been moved to the South Pole by the underwater currents.
4) The book “Atlantis and the Earth´ s Shifting Crust was written by German Jesuit.
5) On the mentioned map, the location of Antarctica corresponds to that of Atlantis.
6) The creators of the map used the satellite pictures for the depiction of the shape of
Atlantis.
Antarctica
This relatively recent theory holds that Antarctica is Atlantis. Those who subscribe to this theory say that Antarctica wasn't always the ice-covered land at the bottom of the world, as it is today. The continent was once a tropical land situated on the Earth's equator, but was shifted to the South Pole due to a slippage of the planet's crust. This theory is described in great detail, with photos and maps, at Atlantis and the Earth's Shifting Crust. One of their main pieces of evidence is an alleged ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis, said to be published in a book by a German Jesuit priest in 1665. The map depicts "Atlantis" between the Americas and Africa (look at a globe from the bottom and Antarctica is indeed situated between South America and Africa). More intriguing, however, is the shape of Atlantis in this supposedly ancient map: it corresponds almost exactly to the shape of the land beneath all the ice of Antarctica - a shape that wasn't known until 20th century satellite imaging!
This relatively recent theory holds that Antarctica is Atlantis. Those who subscribe to this theory say that Antarctica wasn't always the ice-covered land at the bottom of the world, as it is today. The continent was once a tropical land situated on the Earth's equator, but was shifted to the South Pole due to a slippage of the planet's crust. This theory is described in great detail, with photos and maps, at Atlantis and the Earth's Shifting Crust. One of their main pieces of evidence is an alleged ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis, said to be published in a book by a German Jesuit priest in 1665. The map depicts "Atlantis" between the Americas and Africa (look at a globe from the bottom and Antarctica is indeed situated between South America and Africa). More intriguing, however, is the shape of Atlantis in this supposedly ancient map: it corresponds almost exactly to the shape of the land beneath all the ice of Antarctica - a shape that wasn't known until 20th century satellite imaging!