Task 1  Answer the questions about Wales. If you don't know the answers look for  them on the internet. Write the answers in your notebook.

Wales questions

1. What creature is on the Welsh flag?
2. What is the name of the highest mountain in Wales?
3. How many castles are there in Wales – 378, 641 or 927
4. What is the biggest lake in Wales?
5. What country in South America has a large Welsh population?
6. What is unofficially considered the national sport of Wales?
7. Which yellow flower that blooms in Spring is closely associated with the Welsh?
8. Which sea lies to the west of Wales?
9. The Welsh language (Cymraeg) is a member of which wider language group, also including Gaelic and Cornish?
10. What is the name of Wales’s rugby stadium in Cardiff called?
11. After Cardiff, which city is the second most populous in Wales?
12. How long is the Wales Coast Path – 870 miles, 970 miles, or 1,070 miles?
13. What is the name of the river that flows through Cardiff?
14. Wales has more ‘what’ per square mile than any other place in the world?
15. How many national parks can be found across Wales?

Task 2

Task 3  Watch the video and fill in the gaps. Write the answers in your notebook.

Wales is so small one is never ..............1.......... from the sea.

This ancient land, barely .......2......... miles long and ...........3.......... miles wide is surrounded on three sides by the Irish sea.

We have our own .........4............ . Everyone speaks English but ........5........ of the population that's just over half a million speak Welsh.

Hiking and climbing attract many to ...........6.................. , the second largest national park in Britain and training ground for the 1953 Everst Expedition.

It was on the wealth of these early industries that Cardiff ............7.................  of Wales was built.

Among it's intrigueing architecture is the national ..................8..................... housing the largest single span glass house in the world.

Tucked in the corner on the South West ...................9.................. is the county of Pembrokeshire which were the legendes of Camelot and Iron Age Celts and Irish chieftains.

It's a hidden treasure with Norman castles, rolling countryside, ................10.................. gardens and the only national coastal park in Britain.

Castles, villages, rolling hills and always the lush ................11.................. with it's remarkable variety of plantlife.

Task 4 Name the counties of Wales. Find them on the internet and write the answers in your notebook.