England, the United Kingdom and Great Britain

New Year's Eve Traditions

How Americans See Europe

Aitoff map

The Aitoff projection is a modified azimuthal map projection first proposed by David A. Aitoff in 1889. Based on the equatorial form of the azimuthal equidistant projection, Aitoff halved longitudes from the central meridian, projected by the azimuthal equidistant, and then stretched the result horizontally into a 2:1 ellipse.

Aitoff projection map

Templates to make your own maps

National Geographic has a very interesting and useful application for you to make and print your own maps, which may include many interesting elements. Why don't you try it?

ESO-3 CLIL: Political organisation-the European Union

map by José Alberto Bermúdez - banco imágenes ITE

Reviste the materials we have for unit 3:

- European Union Constitution

- The European Union timeline 

- Glossary

- Revision test

- Match these definitions

- Crosswords

- Gap-fill exercise

- audio1

- audio2

- audio3

- audio4

- audio5

- audio6

These are other interesting links you may want to have a look at:

• European Union Webquest
• European Union Website
• Languages in the European Union-booklet (map on page 17)
• European Union symbols
• Money and the European Union
• European Union Trivia
• Toporopa quizzes about different aspects of Europe

CLIL geography test - countries of the world

www.jetpunk.com/quizzes

How good are you at geography? If you want to know just go to this website where you will find lots of interesting tests to improve your geography.  Just check the spelling is correct.

• Countries of the world-in English (12 minutes to write all the countries you can remember)
• Países del mundo-en español
• Europe map quizz-in English
• World capitals-in English (12 minutes)
• European capitals-in English

And there are many other quizzes that you might try for fun: Justin Bieber facts, famous villains, general knowledge...

Map competition - 2nd edition

Hi everyone,
These are the five maps that have been submitted for this year's map competition. You can write your comments stating which one is your favourite. We'll tell you as soon as there is a winner.

Eastern Europe in 1949

Korean War (1950-1953)

NATO and Warsaw Pact in 1955

Spanish Civil War 1938

Vietnam War

CLIL Templates for the map competition

Here are some templates to help you with your maps in the second edition of the map competition of CPI Tino Grandío. You can use any of them or draw it using your own means.

Map of Europe 

• Europe outline
• Europe in colour 1
• Europe in colour 2
• Europe in colour 3
• Africa outline
• Africa in colour 1
• Africa in colour 2
• Africa in colour 3
• America outline
• America in colour 1
• America in colour 2
• Asia outline
• Asia in colour 1

Good luck everyone!!!

Map competition - 2nd edition

Hi everyone,

This year we are also going to have a map competition so that you can show how you ability and help us illustrate the units for social studies that we are preparing for you. So, download the rules of the competition.

1. This competition is for historical and geographical maps in English.
2. It should depict aspects of the 20th century.
3. You can ask for a template or model to have a reference to help you.
4. You can do it by hand or digitally but it must be printable in A4 format.
5. You can submit as many drawings as you want to and give them to your teachers.
6. The deadline is the 13th of April 2012 
7. A prize will be given to the author of the best works.
8. There will be a final exhibition with all the works and they will be uploaded to this blog, which will also be used to illustrate the units under a Creative Commons licence.