Geography warm-up · 22 September 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
Switzerland
Which poet wrote 'The Prisoner of Chillon' in 1816, making the castle on Lake Geneva famous?
- ALord Byron
- BWilliam Shakespeare
- CJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- DVictor Hugo
Lord Byron wrote the poem after visiting the castle, telling the story of François Bonivard, a Geneva prior who was chained there.