07-location
location is a chapter that is dedicated to geography. Where are we located. It is important to know how to express our location but of course when doing your exercises keep your own location secret.  Chris Pirillo writes: It was announced today that Facebook users will begin seeing a new kind of status update in their news feed: the current locations of people on their friends list. Additionally, Twitter users can now tag their location in their tweets, a feature that will even bring up a map to pin-point exact locations. Meredith Chin, a Facebook spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the company wasn’t ready to discuss any possible location-based features. However, according to sources who claim to know about the project, the new location feature will have two parts to it. One will be a service offered directly by Facebook that will allow users to share their location information with friends. The other will be a set of software tools that outside developers can use to offer their own location-based services to Facebook users in the form of Apps.
In the case of a celebrity, is it a good idea to let an over-zealous fan know where you’re having a coffee or manicure? If you’re on vacation, do you really want thieves to know that? What about people who may have a restraining order against a violent person? Letting them know where you are over Twitter may not seem like such a hot idea when they show up there to see you. I can think of a ton of reasons why it’s a crazy idea to constantly share your location with others. However, I can’t honestly think of any solid reasons why it would be a great idea to do so. Am I missing something? Sure, it may be fun… and it may be the newest trend. But is it actually a smart idea? (Text in German) Egon Erwin Kisch - Verlauf einer Jugend (Die Abenteuer in Prag - Auflage 1992 ISBN: 3-7466-128-2) Im Stadtpark zwischen dem Neuen Deutschen Theater und der verlängerten Promenade waren noch keine Blumenbeete, keine Kieswege, kein Botanikerdenkmal. Nein. Ein großer, sandiger Platz, bis zum Gitter der Parkstraße, eine breite Heckenanlage entlang. Eintritt verboten! Ein winziger Fußpfad führt durch das Gestrüpp zu einer Bude, die für uns geheimnisvoll ist, ein Blockhaus oder eine Hazienda, obwohl wir eigentlich wissen, dass Schubkarren und ein Spritzenschlauch davor liegen und die Bretterbude nichts weiter als die Requisiten der Gärtner enthält. Der große Sandplatz ist eine Welt. Andere Planeten sind die andere Teile des Stadtparks: Die Promenade, die ein unterlegter Text des Castaldo-Marsches, der Regimentenmelodie der Prager Kinder besingt: Frau Kohn, Frau Plohn, Frau Klepetar Verstellen daselbst die ganze Passage Tom Bullow - London by the Book (Rough Guides ltd - 2006 "Get London Reading") When Charles Dickens lived at 141 Bayham St at the age of 10, Camden was a poor, semi-rural suburb, where tenements stood back-to-back with hay meadows, although in his books he tended to emphasize its run-down dinginess - with the Cratchits and the Micawbers living here in A Christmas Carol (1843) and David Copperfield (1850) respectively. In 1873, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived at 8 College Street - a time that inspired the "Foolish virgin" section of Rimbaud's A season in Hell (1873) - but even they stuck it for only a few months. Since then, the literary spotlight has fallen on Camden Town thanks to the works of David Storey and Alan Bennett. Written in only three weeks, Storey's Flight into Camden (1960) is the hard-nosed story of a miner's daughter from the author's native Yorkshire who elopes to London with a married art teacher. Bennett sees the world through more whimsical eyes. A resident here since the 1960s, in The Lady in the Van (1989), he describes his bizarre relationship with "Miss Shepherd", who lived for years in an old van in his driveway. In both, The Lady in the Van and Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield (1934), Palmer's Pet Store on Parkway puts on an appearance - with Miss Shepherd claiming to have seen "a long grey snake - a boa constrictor possibly" after a break-in at the shop. Zeměpisek
– the geographer.
Text in Czech Antoine de Saint Exupéry – Malý Princ (The Little Prince)
Šesta planeta byla desetkrát větší. Bydil na ni starý pán a spisovatel obrovské knihy. "Ale hled'me, badatel!" zvolal, když spatřil malého prince. Malý princ se posadil na stůl a byl trochu udýchán. Tolik se už nacestoval! “Odkut přicházíš?” zeptal se ho starý pán. “Co to je za tlustou knihu?” řekl malý princ “Co tu děláte?” “Jsem zeměpisec. Odpověděl starý pán. “Co je to zeměpisec?” “To je vědec, který ví, kde jsou moře, veletoky, města, hory a pouště.” “Opravdu moc zajímavé,” řekl malý princ “Konecne opravdové zamestnaní!” A rozhlédl se kolem sebo po zeměpiscově planetě. Jeste nikdy neviděl tak vzešenou planetu. “Vaše planeta je moc hezká. Jsou tu oceány? To nemohu vědět.” řekl zeměpisek “Ach!” (malý princ byl zklaman “A hory?” “To nemohu vědět.” odpověděl zeměpisec. “A města a řeky a pouště?” “To také nemohu vědět.” řekl zeměpisec. “Vzdyt' jste zeměpisek!” “Ovsem,”řekl zeměpisek “ale nestem badatel. A nernam zadné badatele. Zeměpisek nikdy nepočítá města, řeky, hory, more, oceány a pouště.”
| Using an atlas 
Area symbols: in one colour indicate the shape and size of a country on a map of a continent, or a natural feature such as a sea. Coloured area symbols show the height of the land before sea level. Line symbols: show features such as roads, railways, rivers and boundaries. Point symbols: shows features (e.g. mountain peaks, height in metres) and towns. International boundary: The international boundary tells you where one country meets another one. The boundary often follows the line of a physical feature such as a river. Capital city: a capital city is shown on the map by an underlining in red. This distinguishes it from the other towns and cities on the map. Map colour: colour is used on the maps to show various things. Each country is given a different colour from its neighbour on political maps. In the regional maps colour is used to show the height of sea of land above sea level. Latitude and longitude: Lines of latitude and longitude help to indicate how far north or south of the Equator of how far east of west of Greenwich, London, a place is located. Cities: cities and towns that are not capitals are shown by an open black circle or square, corresponding to the population size group of each location. Mountains: the high peaks in mountain ranges are shown by a small black triangle. The name of the mountain and its height in metres are beside the triangle. Rivers: rivers are shown on the map by a fine blue line. The name of the river will be found printed along this line. Grid: Places on a map can be found easily by using the grid letters at the edges of the map. These are needed when using the index. Map scales: it is impossible to show an area at its true size on a map. All maps in this atlas are therefore drawn at a reduced scale. To fit the area to be shown on one page, many different scales are used. The amount of information given and the area covered by each map are affected by the scale of the map. For example, at a large scale ( 1 : 2 600 000) England and Wales are shown. At a medium scale (1: 8 000 000) the British Isles are covered. At a small scale (1 : 25 000 000) we are able to map the continent of Europe. There are many different ways of expressing the scale of a map. The scale bar gives a graphic linear measure. The representative fraction gives the scale ratio (for example 1:8 000 000). A statement of scale can also be given (e.g. 4 inches to 1 mile). Abbreviation: Sometimes there is not enough space on a map to name a feature in full. The following abbreviation are commonly used in this atlas: Arch. - archipelago. / C. - Cape / Hd. - Head / I. - Island, Isle/ Is. - Islands/ L. - Lake, Loch / Mt. - Mont, Mount / Mts. - Mountains/ Ra. - Range/ Str. - Strait) Abbreviation used for the country names are listed on the world map or on individual continent map. World data - The concluding section has two parts. First is a gazetteer of over 2500 important places and features in the world, arranged alphabetically. Each entry gives location and vital statistics of size: area, length, population, etc. Every country has an expanded description, with facts on climate, economy, government, religion and currency. At the end of this atlas is an Index to most of the place names to be found on the maps. These names are arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry starts with the name of the place, followed in italic script by the country in which it is located. Then, in a column alongside, is first the number of the most appropriate page on which the name appears, usually the largest scale map. Next come the alphanumeric reference of the map grid on that page. For example, the index entry for Berlin reads: Berlin, Germany 28C2 http://www.worldatlas.com/ Atlas in French http://www.atlasgeo.net/ http://www.welt-atlas.de/ http://go.hrw.com/atlas/span_htm/world.htm http://amapy.centrum.cz/#x=3546969@y=5521970@cs=2@sidx=2@pg=1,5@pl=@app=0@sbar=c
Tanzania (Area 945.087 sq km/ 364.898 sq miles) Continent: Africa population: 43,739,000 (estimate 2009) Official languages: Swahili and English (in courts) Capital: Dodoma; other major cities: Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mwanza, Tanga; form of government: Republic; Religions: Sunni Islam, RC, Anglicanism, Hinduism. Currency: Tanzanian Shilling). Tanzania lies on the east coast of Central Africa and comprises a large mainland area as well as the islands of Pemba and Zansibar. The mainland consist mostly of plateaux including the Serengeti Plains, broken by mountainous areas, and the Great Rift Valley. The coast is hot and humid, the central plateau drier, and the mountains semi-temperate. Some 80% of Tanzanians make a living from the land. Cash crops include cotton and coffee. The islands are more successful agriculturally and have important coconut and clove plantations. Locals refer to the Kitulo Plateau as 'Bustani ya Mungu' - The Garden of God - while botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers. Kitulo is the first national park in tropical Africa to be gazetted largely for its floral significance - not only a multitude of orchids but also the stunning yellow-orange red-hot poker and a variety of aloes, proteas, geraniums, giant lobelias, lilies and aster daisies, of which more than 30 species are endemic to southern Tanzania. 45 varieties of terrestrial orchid grow here Useful expressions Here There On this spot This country is ....km2 /square miles There is Where is (location)? |
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On Twitter, there will be a location placemarker next to any 