UNIT 4 life on earth

UNIT 4: LIFE ON EARTH

VOCABULARY &SPEAKING

GEOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE

THE GRAND CANYON, USA
This canyon (gaung 峡谷) in
the middle of a desert (pasir
gurun 沙漠) is nearly 2km
deep! You can go rafting down
the Colorado River at the
bottom of the valley (lembah
山谷）

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF,(tebing
karang 堡礁), AUSTRALIA

In the Pacific Ocean (lautan海洋),
near the coast (pantai海边）of
Queensland, this coral reef
(terumbu karang 珊瑚礁) has over
1500 different kinds of fish！

THE AMAZON RAINFOREST,(hutan
Hujan 雨林), EDUCATOR

The world’s biggest forest full of
plants and animals, which are
disappearing (semakin hilang 消
失) as people cut trees down.

THE DEAD SEA, JORDAN

This is a lake of salty (masin咸)
water which you can float in
(tepung 浮). On the beach, there
is a special kind of mud (lumpur
泥) which people put out their
bodies.

THE NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA

At Niagara there are three
different waterfalls. About 5
million litres of water go through
them every second！

TABLE MOUNTAIN, SOUTH AFRICA

This mountain (gunung 山), which is
flat (rata平) on the top, has steep
cliffs (tebing悬崖) you can climb,
and all kinds of wildlife (hidupan
liar 野生动物).

THE BLUE CAVE, GREECE

Inside this cave (gua 山洞) on the
Greek island (pulau 岛) of
Kastelorizo the water is a beautiful
deep blue.

ADJECTIVES FOR DESCRIBING PLACES

Acient place that has a long history； historic
Amazing impressive, causing great surprise or wonder
Beautiful very pleasing on the eye; attractive, lovely
boring not very interesting, uninteresting
charming nice and very pleasing place, delightful,
Contemporary modern, very up- to date
Crowded very full of people, busy, bustling
Dangerous likely to cause harm or injury
Exciting likely and thrilling with lots of enjoyable things
Interesting arousing curiosity; holding or catching attention
Unusual not habitually , remarkable or interesting because different
than others