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CLIL A  Unit 2

Focus on Geography: Climate zones

3
Polar zone

4
Temperate zone
1 Mediterranean 7

Tropical zone 6

Equator 5

Tropical zone 2

Temperate zone

Polar zone
Across the world, people experience
different types of weather. All places
1 Look at the map. Then read the text and complete it with have similar weather over many
the words in the box. years, and we call this the ‘climate’.
It includes rainfall, temperature,
Mediterranean polar temperate tropical sunshine and wind.

2 Look at the map. Choose the correct option for each The North and South Poles have a
place. (1) climate.
These are very cold places. Lapland
1 California, USA:  Mediterranean / polar has this kind of climate.
2 Brazil:  temperate / tropical
3 Greenland:  Mediterranean / polar The zone next to the polar areas has
4 The UK:  temperate / Mediterranean a (2) climate. In these
5 The Democratic Republic of the Congo:  temperate / zones, there are four seasons: a hot
tropical summer, a cold winter, a cool spring
6 India:  tropical / temperate and a cool autumn. Most of the USA
7 Japan:  polar / temperate and parts of Russia have this climate.
Countries closer to the equator, for
3 Read the text again. Match the sentences to the zones in
example, Greece, Italy and Spain,
Exercise 1. have a (3) climate.
1 It rains a lot, but it is always hot. These places have hot, dry summers
2 The winter isn’t really cold, but it rains. and warm winters.
3 It’s cold all year. At the equator, there is a
4 There are four seasons. (4) climate. Countries
with this climate, in Central Africa,
4 Ask and answer the questions about the place you live.
Central America and South Asia,
1 What type of zone do you live in? are hot and wet. There are only
2 Are you nearer to the polar or the tropical zone? two seasons: the short, dry season
3 What is the weather like in different seasons? lasts for about three months. This is
followed by a wet season.

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