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Describing a place

I 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.

 

II Learn
1 Figures in letters
  • 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.
When describing a place, we use specific language forms, notice how we ask questions to have information
  • 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.
2 LANGUAGE FORMS TO KEEP IN MIND

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

 

 

III LANGUAGE FORMS TO KEEP IN MIND

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.

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