Lesson video

Hi everyone.

My name is Miss Dhillion.

Last lesson you were learning about physical features of Europe.

Can you tell me what the tallest mountain in Europe is called? Say out loud.

Good job.

You should have said Mount Elbrus, well done.

What is the longest river in Europe? Say out loud again.

Good job.

Well done for remembering it is the Fogo river, which is really famous.

We'll copy up.

Excellent recall team.

In today's lesson, we will be exploring the question.

What are some of Europe's, most important human characteristics.

This is what the structure of the lesson is going to look like today.

We will start with the star words.

Then we will do some revision of the countries of Europe.

Then we will look at the population of Europe.

Then we will look into the cities and landmarks in Europe.

And finally, we will look at the topic of economy and trade.

For this lesson, You will need a piece of paper or an exercise book, pen, or pencil, and your brain, ready to do is lots of new learning.

One, two, three On the screen, You can see a list of all the equipment that you need for today's lesson.

Please make sure you have it before you start the lesson.

One, two, three.

On the screen, you can see an equipment list for today's lesson.

Please make sure you have everything you need, before you start.

On the screen.

You can see the star words for today's lesson.

Let's say them out loud using my turn and then your turn Europe human features, population currency, European union, Euro trait, imports, exports.

Good job team.

Now to start with, what I would like you to do is recap your knowledge of the location of countries in Europe.

So on the screen, you can see a map, on the map, the pink boxes represent countries which are missing.

Can you write down all the countries that are missing underneath these pink boxes, use the shape of the country to help you work out what country is.

Pause the video now to complete this task.

Here are all the answers.

Take a few moments to check your answers.

How did you do this time, team? Well done.

If you've got some, if not all six correct.

Remember team, special hint for you is, to remember the shape of the country on the map.

I find this really useful to help me remember what country is.

For example, have a look at Italy, the shape of Italy is very unique.

It's quite long and quite thin.

So that helps me remember that country is Italy.

Now have a look at Denmark.

You can see that Denmark is East of the United Kingdom.

Also, you can see , that it is a small part that joins with Germany.

So you can always remember the countries next to, to help you remember the missing country.

Last lesson.

We talked about how Geography has two branches, Physical Geography and Human Geography.

Last lesson, we were looking at Physical Geography.

In today's lesson.

We will be focusing on Human Geographical Features.

And these are things that are related to the behaviour of humans.

For example, cities, villages, shops, factories, et cetera.

Let's start by looking at the Population of Europe.

The current population of Europe is approximately 747 million, based on the latest United Nation estimates.

Europe's population is equivalent to 9.

78%.

Or we can say approximately 10% of the total world population.

Europe also ranks number three, among regions of the world, when ordered by population.

Now the life expectancy.

This is the age to which an average person who is born in the Europe will live to is around 81 years old.

Pause the video now to complete the task on the screen.

Here's the answer.

Did you say C? Excellent.

Remember C is an approximate.

Okay.

So it's approximately 10%.

The population of Europe is roughly 10% of the total world population.

Now let's break down the population of Europe by having a closer look at the sub regions of Europe.

You can see the sub regions in the left column of the table, in the right column of the table, You can see the population of that sub region.

I would now like you to look at the table and answer this question.

Which sub region has the highest population? Pause the video now to write your answer down.

Okay team.

The answer is now up on the screen.

Eastern Europe has the highest population, in the four regions of Europe.

Now I would like you to interpret the data again in the table, but this time, the question is, What sub region has the lowest population? pause the video to complete this task.

Okay Team.

So the answer is Northern Europe.

Northern Europe has the lowest population, in out of all four regions in Europe.

Now looking at these pictures, can you guess which cities are in these pictures? You might recognise some of them and some of them you might not.

So that's okay.

I would just like you to think about which ones do you recognise? Maybe you've been there before, or you've seen it somewhere for example, on television.

So pause the video now and try to name all the cities on the screen.

Okay team.

Here are the answers.

So you have London in the United Kingdom, Rome in Italy, Amsterdam, which is in the Netherlands, Paris, which is in France.

Barcelona, which is the city in Spain and finally Copenhagen, which is in Denmark.

How many of those did you manage to get correct.

Okay Team.

So now that we've looked at some of the important cities in Europe, we are now going to look at some of the landmarks.

We can't look at them all.

So I'm just going to show you a few, so that you can get more familiar, with the landmarks across Europe.

Now on the screen, you can see the Lakhtar tower, which is in st.

Petersburg in Russia.

This tower stands as the tallest building in Europe, and it stands at about 462 metres tall.

It is a tallest building in Europe, but it's also the tallest building in Russia, which is where it is built, compared to all the other tall buildings in the world, It is the 14th largest building in the world.

Now on the screen, you can see a very famous Roman structure.

I wonder if you know what it's called? This is the Colosseum, my turn, your turn Colosseum.

It is very well known to be a location, where the legendary gladiators would fight.

The Colosseum took around 10 years to finish.

I would now like you to pause the video, to complete the task on the screen.

Here's the answer.

Did you find the correct answer? Well done.

If you did.

Now continuing to look at landmarks on the screen, you can see St Basil's Cathedral, which is in the city of Moscow in Russia.

This is Russia's best known church.

And as you can see in the picture, it has a very cool and colourful design.

This church was built in 1555-1561, which was in the 16th century, a very long time ago, We are now in the 21st century.

I wonder what you like about this cathedral? have a look and think about what you like.

See, I like that it is completely different, to the traditional design of cathedrals, which is what makes it very unique.

And that's why I like it.

I would now like you to pause the video to complete the task on the screen.

Here's the answer.

I really hope no one said the 21st century, because we are currently living in the 21st century.

We are now going to learn a bit about the European union, which is a political and economic union of 27 member States that are located mainly in the continent of Europe.

Now, not all countries in the continent of Europe, are a part of this European union.

This union started in 1993.

This union was formed to bring together, the countries of Europe.

The European union or also called EU.

So capital E and U helps this member countries with issues such as trade, security and the rights of citizens.

On the screen, You can see a blue flag, which has yellow stars.

this represents the European union.

Now some of you might be wondering, Is the United Kingdom, a part of the European union? The answer is no, we used to be a part of the European union, but after Brexit, the UK has now left the EU and it left on the 31st, January, 2020.

The formation of the European union meant the countries who joined the union, decided to use a single currency, which is known as the Euro.

Some of you might have seen this, if you've been to any country, that is part of the European union.

Well, many members of the European union, sorry, agreed to adopt the Euro.

Some countries, for example, Denmark and Sweden, decided to stick to their own currency.

So they don't use the Euro.

Even though they're part of the European union, pause the video now to complete the task on the screen, Here are the answers.

I've put Sweden and Denmark, but you only needed to just say one of those, to get the correct answer.

So both of them are correct.

Now let's have a look at trade.

Trade is the buying and selling of things.

What is trade? Good job.

The buying and the selling of things.

Trade is a very important way for countries to make money and has been happening across the world.

For hundreds of years.

Today, goods are carried around the world in container ships, from port to port and by aeroplane.

People in Europe can sell things they make, when people other countries want them.

This might be because in the other countries, they can't make them themselves, or because Europe is selling them for cheaper or giving them a better quality.

Sending goods like this to other countries, is called exporting goods.

Exported goods are the goods that are produced in Europe and then are sold to other countries.

Some of the things that are exported from Europe include; motor vehicles, iron steel and pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals are medical drugs.

Now they are also some things such as bananas or oranges, that are very hard to grow in Europe, and so we have to buy these from abroad, from other countries.

This is called import.

The main imported goods that come from other countries, into Europe include crude oil, which is mainly used for transportation and for plastics, clothing, and food such as fruits and vegetables and other things such as coffee.

Pause the video now to complete the task on the screen.

I have given you the key word pharmaceuticals, because I know it's very tricky to spell.

So the important information here is that, trading is the buying and selling of goods.

Goods that we export out to other countries include; motor vehicles, iron and steel and pharmaceuticals.

Goods that we import into Europe include; clothing, food, and crude oil.

Well done.

If you've got those correct.

Okay Team.

That is now the end of today's lesson.

I hope you had lots of fun, learning about some of the important human features of Europe.

And I wonder what have you learned today, that you didn't already know before this lesson? Bye.

Everyone.

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