Geography warm-up · 22 January 2026
Which country is it?
Put this on the big screen. Show one clue at a time and let the class guess out loud. Every class in the world gets the same country today.
- It covers about 92,100 km².
- It shares a land border with 1 country.
- The main language is named after the country or its people.
- The money is the Euro.
- It is in Southern Europe.
- Its capital starts with "L" and has 6 letters.
Question of the day
Germany
Why did the East German government begin building the Berlin Wall in 1961?
- ATo stop its citizens leaving for the West
- BTo keep out an invading army
- CTo protect the city from floods
- DTo mark a new tax border
It was built to stop its citizens leaving for the West: about 3.5 million people had already left East Germany.