Test Geography 3e : The UK

Statistics you must know :
Number of inhabitants in the UK
Surface of the UK (Approximately)
Number of inhabitants in London + comparison with the second largest city
Share of the primary, secondary, tertiary industry, quaternary industry in the jobs

Maps :
Location of the 4 nations (England, Wales, Scoltand, Northern Ireland)
Location of the  10 most populated cities
Location of the British overseas territories (to be able to give two examples)
Location of the richest parts of the UK and the poorest ones


Vocabulary:
Nation, region, area,
Overseas territories, Commonweath,
CBD, countryside, council estate, terraced house, semi-detached houses, green belt, inner city, outer city, commuter village
rural-urban fringe areas

What you must be able to explain :
- why was regeneration necessary in Manchester (and what was decided to achieve it)
- What were the changes in the rural-urban fringe areas (example of Chester)
- the link between the type of industry and the wealth of an area
- the different types of farming
- what are national parks
- why tourism is important in the UK
- what is green tourism
- why London is a world metropolis
- what High Industries are

WW1

For the official program	For the international Section
August 1914 : Outbreak of the war	August 1914 : DORA*
September 1914 : Battle of the Marne	December 1914 : German raid on Scarborough
Late 1914- Early 1918 : Stalemate
From April 1915 : Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire	April 1915 : Gallipoli Battle
February-December 1916 : Battle of Verdun	1916 : Military Service Act*
	July- November 1916 : Battle of the Somme
February and October 1917 : Russian revolutions December 1917 : Russian Armistice	April 1917 : The United States declared war on Germany
November 1918 : Revolutions in Austria-Hungary and in Germany 11 November 1918 : Armistice : End of WW1
June 1919 : Treaty of Versailles	1919 : Right to vote for women over 30 y.o. in the UK

                                                                                  25 April : ANZAC day

DORA : Defense Of the Realm Act : law passed in August 1914 to limit freedoms in the UK because of the War  

Military Service Act : Before that law in the UK, men had to enlist (= to be volunteer) to become soldier

Propaganda poster : the different targets of propapanda poster (to recruit soldiers [Until 1916] + to convince people that the it is a just war + to encourage people  to give money to pay wepons  and (especially for  women) to work in war factories

What you must know :

-          The different phases of WW1

-          Vocabulary to describe trenches + what were the conditions of life in the trenches

-          To explain why WWI was a ‘total war’

-          To explain why the Home front played an important role in the war

-          The number of soldiers killed during WW1, Which countries had the most casualties

-          The new map of Europe in 1919 : new frontiers of Germany, new countries

-          Why the treaty of Versailles was considered as a humiliation by Germany

-          Who Lenin, Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George were.

Testimonies about WW1:

-          An example of a soldier’s diary :  Billy Congreve

-          Examples of novels  about World War I :

o   Erich Maria Remarque, All quiet on the Western Front (1929)

o   Humphrey COBB, Path of Glory, (1937)

-          Examples of a film  about World War I :Paths of Glory (1957=

3e : fiche de révision : chapter 1 : A century of scientific and technological advances

Medical inventions : 

Vocabulary :

scientist, inventor, engineer, infant mortality, life expectancy,

To comment on a graph: the curve, to increase, to decrease, to be stable,

Medicine : disease, to cure, to heal, wounds, small pox, vaccine, vaccination, genetics, DNA, a diagnosis, doctor, physician, bacteria, patient, meningitis, scarlet, diphtheria, fever, penicillin, pneumonia, a drug,

Newspaper, cover, post, illustration, a post

to peer inside,

Dates to remember and to be able to explain why it was important

1928 : Fleming discovered penicillin

1953 : Crick discovered DNA

1971 : Hounsfield invented MRI and the scanner

+ 1958 : Norman Rockwell, Before the shot, to be able to describe the painting and what it is showing

To describe a painting : In the foreground, in the background,

Technological inventions:

Vocabulary:

a DAT (Digital Audio Tape), a CD, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, A Personal Computer (PC), High Speed Train, airliner, a mobile phone,

Dates to remember :

1945: the Atomic bomb

1969: First Moon lamding

1990s: Internet website

+ choose 3 other inventions you consider important and explain why.