Geography warm-up · 11 July 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 1,002,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 4 countries.
- People there speak Arabic.
- The money is the pound.
- It is in Northern Africa.
- Its capital starts with "C" and has 5 letters.
Question of the day
India
Which board game grew from an ancient Indian game called chaturanga?
- ABackgammon
- BChess
- CDraughts (checkers)
- DGo
Chaturanga is the ancestor of chess. Its name means 'four parts', after the four branches of an ancient army.