GEOCLIL

Living in Europe

Europe is a continent. It has got a high density of population in all its countries, except for some extreme environments. Italy is the fifth most populated country in Europe.

1. Now over to you! Look at the pictures, read the information and write I if you are in Italy or E if you are in Europe.

.......... This is a very old village. Look at its houses!

..........  In this city you can visit a very famous museum called Louvre.

..........  Look at this postcard! We can see the river Thames and a famous wheel.

..........  In this city there is the famous volcano called Vesuvius.

..........  Look at this building. It is a cottage with a typical thatched roof.

Languages in Europe

We have a lot of languages in Europe: some are national, others are regional and minority ones. This situation is linked to the past and its exchanges among people present in this continent.

2. Now, read the text. Then, look at the map and write the words in bold in the boxes. 

European languages derive from the following indo-european language groups: the Romance languages, the Germanic languages, the Slavic languages. The Romance languages derive from Latin. Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian belong to this group. They are spoken in Southwestern Europe and in Romania. People, who live in Central Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, speak a language connected to the Germanic language family. We can remember English, German, Dutch and the three Scandinavian languages: Danish, Norvegian and Swedish. The Slavic languages are spoken in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Examples are: Russian, Polish, Bulgarian. The Baltic group consists of Latvian and Lithuanian. The Uralic languages are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian. They belong to a non-Indo-European family.