Course: 8 básico

Unit: Life in other countries and communities

Objectives:

Contrast different lifestyles with comparing adjectives

Pre-activity

Objectives: the students differentiates the lifestyles of diverse countries

1-brainstorming about the life in Chile

2-Compare the life in USA with the life in Chile

3-the teacher ask them to write some predictions about how the two countries compare in terms of the following measures: population, culture, language,food and sports.

4-Imagine that you had to live in another country for a while. Which country would you choose and why? How long you think you might like to live there?

5-What other cultures do you know about?

6-What other cultures or countries would you want to learn more about and why?

While-activity

Directions:

1-Choose any of these coutries and complete the chart

·         United States and Russia

·         Afghanistan and Pakistan

·         Argentina and Brazil

·         England and Ireland

·         Germany and Austria

·         Japan and the United States

·         Spain and France

·         Iran and Iraq

·         China and Russia

·         Egypt and Ethiopia

·         India and China

·         Chile and Peru

2-Write the name of one of the countries next to COUNTRY 1 and write the name of the other country next to COUNTRY 2.

	COUNTRY 1: __________	COUNTRY 2: __________
President
Population
Capital
Colors of the Flag
Money
Major Language
Largest Religion
Agriculture (2)
Industries (2)
Natural Resources (2)

Resources: Encyclopedias - Maps - History books

Online resources: The world fact bookhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

http://www.factmonster.com

http://www.infoplease.com

Post-activity

Write at least three sentences comparing the countries on the chart.