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Unit 7 Geography Warming-up Task 1 South for the winter—A joke Listen to a joke and retell it in pairs. Start-up Task 2 Water cycle—A conversation What is the water cycle like? Listen to the conversation and label on the graph below with correspondent words or phrases. Mark out the directions of the arrows. 1.______________ 2._______________ 3.______________ 4._______________ 5. _____________ salt water Comprehensive Training Task 3 Geography of Asia the Pacific—Listening for gist Listen to the monolog with the following questions in mind. How many areas can the region of Asia and the Pacific be divided into? And what are they? What is the percentage of the world’s population that live in these regions? Task 4 Geography of Asia the Pacific—Listening for specific information Listen to the same monolog for a second time and complete the following sentences. The Caucasus Mountains and the ________________ form a boundary between Europe and Asia. The oldest known civilizations were born between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day _________. The Middle East is rich in _______________. __________ percent of the central Asia is desert. Asia’s longest waterway is ___________, which originates from _______________. One economically developed island nation in Asia is_________. Climate in South Asia experiences ____________. South Asia’s first civilizations developed around the river valleys of____________. Most people in Australia live on ____________. Name the landforms in these regions (at least two): ________________________. Task 5 Geography of Asia the Pacific—Listening for language Now listen for the third time and complete the transcript. Europe and Asia ________ the same ________, but they are considered separate continents. Asia begins at the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea. The Caucasus Mountains and Black Sea form another boundary. __________ Russia’s Siberia, this _______ area of the globe