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Natural places

Exercise 1

The picture below shows a total of 12 natural places. Match each number with a word from the box.

rainforest - waterfalls - lake - desert - river - ocean

mountains - cliffs - beach - glacier - cave - volcano

Nature

Vocabulary: Verbs in stories. Ana Losada e José Luis Murado. CC BY-SA

  

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Exercise 2. Adjectives to describe places

Complete the gaps below with one adjective from the box

cold - humid - high - tranquil - vast - long

active - unspoilt - beautiful - magical - breathtaking - huge







  

  1. Tropical rainforests are really ; that's why they have so much vegetation
  2. The mountains in the Himalayas are so ! It must be difficult to climb them
  3. At night, temperatures in the desert decrease dramatically and it's very
  4. The views from the cliffs are incredibly impressive, it's a landscape
  5. The Nile is a very river; it is 6,853 km long and passes through 11 countries
  6. Oceans are so , they seem to have no end
  7. In summer, I love going to an beach far from touristy areas
  8. This volcano hasn't been for centuries
  9. These caves remind me of fantasy settings, they are !
  10. Near my house there is a picturesque spot with waterfalls
  11. That glacier used to be but now its size is quite small
  12. This lake is the perfect place to rest, it's so

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Bonus Task

Need more practice?To do more vocabulary exercises about types of film and people in films, click the links below:

You will be taken to Learning Chocolate, a very useful website to learn vocabulary as it includes wordsorganised into categories and plenty of exercises to revise their spelling and pronunciation.

 

Watch the following tutorial to learn how to use the site:

How to use Learning Chocolate to Improve Your English. Vídeo de Curso Tic Oral Skills en YouTube. Licencia CC BY