Describing a place
My friend Alida lives in Amsterdam the capital city of Holland, which is also called the Netherlands. Amsterdam is located in the Province of North Holland in the west of the country. It has a population of about 2,431,000 inhabitants. Half of them are immigrants. It is rather big and it is famous for its parks and canals.
- 100= a hundred.
- 120 = a hundred and twenty.
- 1,000= a thousand.
- 25,000= twenty-five thousand.
- 25,431= twenty-five thousand,four hundred and thirty-one.
- 2,000,000= two million.
- 2,431,000= two million, four hundred and thirty-one thousand.
- Amel: Where do you live?
- Alida: I live in the north of Holland.
- Amel: Where exactly?
- Alida: I live in Amsterdam.
- Amel: What is its population?
- Alida: It has a population of about 2,431,000 inhabitants.
- Amel: Which continent is your country in?
- Alida: It is in the north of Europe, to the south of the British Isles.
- Amel: What is the population of Holland?
- Alida: It has about 16,929,326 inhabitants.
- Amel: What is it famous for?
- Alida: It is famous for tulips, cheese, windmills and the canals of Amsterdam.
When we want to ask about a place we use specific questions to have specific answers.
characteristics |
population |
place |
---|---|---|
3. What is it famous for?
It is famous for its Sahara and historic sites
|
2. What is its population?
It has got a population of about 36 million inhabitants. |
1.Which continent is your country in? /Where is your country located?
It is located/ situated in the north of Africa/ in Northern Africa, in the south of Asia/ America
|
The adjectives and nouns of location
Adjective |
Noun |
In North Algeria In Northern Algeria
In South Algeria In Southern Algeria
In East Algeria In Eastern Algeria
In West Algeria In Western Algeria
|
In the north of Algeria
In the south of Algeria
In the east of Algeria
In the west of Algeria
In the northeast of Algeria In the northwest of Algeria In the southeast of Algeria In the southwest of Algeria
|
Be careful about the difference in meaning between"located to the west of" and" located in the west of
- a Oran is located in the west of Algeria.
→ It is situated in Algeria /Western Algeria.
- Oran is located to the west of Algiers.
→it is not in the department of Algiers, it is away from Algiers to the west of Algiers.
- إختبارات
- 10
- الأجوبة الصحيحة
- False
- الأجوبة الخاطئة
- False
- مجموع النقاط
- False
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