CLIL • Geography lesson

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Developing country – India
1 Put these countries in order of geographical
size (1–8), starting with the largest (1).
India Russia
China United States
Canada Brazil
Italy Australia
What is the smallest country in the world?
2 Read the text about India and complete the fact file.

Fact File: India

• Capital:
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• Population:
......................................... India is the seventh
largest country in the

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• Main religion(s): world, but it is the AL

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• Language(s):
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• System of government:
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• Climate:
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• Currency:
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• Mobile phone users:
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• Internet users:
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3 Read the text again. True or false? Write T or F.
Correct the false sentences.
1 India is the seventh largest country in terms
of population in the world.
2 There are 19 official languages in India.
3 India is a monarchy.
4 The climate is the same all over India.
5 New Delhi is famous for its computer industry.
6 Bangalore is the fastest growing city in Asia.
7 670 million people use the Internet in India.
8 India is a developed country.
MINI-PROJECT
Look at the information about India again.
Prepare a similar fact file about Italy. Use the Internet,
magazine or newspaper articles to find the information.
Then using the information in your fact file, write a
short text about Italy.
KI
PA
second largest in terms •
New Delhi
of population, with
more than 1.1 billion
BANGLADESH
people. It will overtake
China as the country
with the biggest Bangalore
•
population by 2050.
SRI
The capital city is New LANKA
Delhi. The biggest
religions are Hinduism
and Islam. The main languages
are Hindi and English, but there are 14
other official languages!
India became independent from Britain in
August 1947, and it is now a federal republic
and the world’s largest democracy.
The climate varies, with tropical monsoons
in the south to a more temperate climate in
the north. The currency is the Indian rupee.
India is a country of extremes. Approximately
50% of people work in agriculture, but industry
and services are rapidly developing. For example,
Bangalore is famous for its computer industry and
is known as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’. It is India’s fifth
largest city and the fastest growing city in Asia.
In India, 670 million people have mobile phones
and 61 million use the Internet. Although India is
developing quickly, there are still a lot of problems:
overpopulation, ethnic conflict, environmental
pollution, and poverty (one third of the world’s
total poor people live in India).
Glossary: billion – miliardo
overtake – superare main – principale
monsoon – monsone currency – valuta
develop – sviluppare conflict – conflitto
environmental pollution – inquinamento ambientale

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