Exercise 3: Country facts

 Country facts

3Match the questions with the correct answers. 

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• How big is it? What's the area?
• What's the climate like?
• What about religion?
• What about culture?
• What's the population?
• What currency do they have?
• Apart from white British, what other ethnic groups are there?
• What time zone is it in?

QUESTIONS ABOUT SCOTLAND

• 1  Just over 5 million.

• 2  Around 79,000 square kilometres.

• 3  Pounds sterling.

• 4  Changeable: the west is warm and wet, the east is drier and colder. Average temperatures: 18° in summer, 6° in winter.

• 5  Not many – about 1% mixed Asian.

• 6  65% are Christian; 28% are not religious; 7% other.

• 7  The same as the rest of the UK – GMT.

• 8  There are lots of famous Scottish people: inventors (like James Watt), writers (like Robert Louis Stevenson), actors (like Sean Connery).