Geography warm-up · 28 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 2,780,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 5 countries.
- People there speak Guaraní, Spanish.
- The money is the peso.
- It is in South America.
- Its capital starts with "B" and has 11 letters.
Question of the day
Dominican Republic
San Pedro de Macorís is famous for producing an unusually large number of professional players of which sport?
- ABaseball
- BVolleyball
- CTennis
- DGolf
Baseball: Cuban immigrants brought the game to San Pedro de Macorís in the late 1800s, and the city has produced many major league players.