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Mountaineers walk across the ice to the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
UNIT GOALS
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
• describe extremes;
• use superlatives;
• use sentence stress.
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A. (🎧1-25) Work with a partner. Choose the correct answers. Then listen and check.
1. What's the hottest desert on Earth? The Atacama The Sahara
2. What's the longest river in the world? The Amazon The Nile
3. What's the highest mountain in the world? Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Everest
4. What's the largest rock on Earth? Uluru/Ayers Rock Zuma Rock
5. Where's the coldest place on Earth? Europe Antarctica
6. Where's the tallest tree in the world? The United StatesMexico
7. What's the smallest country in the world? Vatican City The Maldives
B. (🎧1-26 Listen. Write the number of each place (1-7) on the correct continent on the map.
C. Talk with a partner. What do you know about the places in A?
The Atacama Desert is in Chile and Peru.
