English week 19

This week we've started looking at countries and nationalities.

The plan is for everyone to give a 5 - 10 minute presentation on a country of their choice on Monday 19th May.

Please dig out information that you will not find in tourist brochures.

Here are some sources:

CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Culture Crossing: http://www.culturecrossing.net/

Here you will find lots of statistics. 

Remember, a statistic is USELESS unless we have something to compare it to. So use Sweden as a benchmark when telling us things like how many people can read and write, how many people die in car accidents, etc.

Happy Planet Index: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/

Transparency International - Corruption (by country): http://www.transparency.org/country

World Bank Data: http://data.worldbank.org/country

index Mundi - a compilation of data from different sources: http://www.indexmundi.com/

Your mission

Write 1-2 sides of A4 about your chosen country - to be emailed to me by 18th May.

Present your country to the class on Monday 19th May - preferably with music and pictures!