{"id":1070,"date":"2014-01-12T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-01-12T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:46:15","slug":"describing-places-using-key-words-and-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/geography\/describing-places-using-key-words-and-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Describing Places Using Key Words and Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be a Thinker\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be a Thinker\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker_thumb.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/media\/photos\/000\/272\/27234.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/education\/media\/what-geography\/?ar_a=1\" target=\"_blank\">Source: National Geographic (Education)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-A-Communicator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be A Communicator\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be A Communicator\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-A-Communicator_thumb.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Watch this video. Afterwards, you need to describe the places that you have seen in the video, so watch carefully.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Q. As we describe the places we see, what sort of special words can we use? We are trying to use Geography key words \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p>   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63156048?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/63156048\">Mini Norway &#8211; a Tilt Shift Movie<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user12223286\">Davide Vasta<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">Now we will do the same for a different place \u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/71887368?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/71887368\">Bird&#8217;s eye Bangkok<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/manders\">Pieter Manders<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Be a Thinker\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Be a Thinker\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Be-a-Thinker_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\">What Geography Key Words can we use when describing places?<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid\" height=\"420\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/13949585?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"510\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe>   <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\"><strong><a title=\"Introducing Geography Key Words\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jamespenstone\/introducing-geography-key-words\" target=\"_blank\">Introducing Geography Key Words<\/a> <\/strong>from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jamespenstone\" target=\"_blank\">James Penstone<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>Putting it all together \u2013 here is how a student once applied such key words to three locations around Rayong in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"597\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: National Geographic (Education) Watch this video. Afterwards, you need to describe the places that you have seen in the video, so watch carefully. Q. As we describe the places we see, what sort of special words can we use? We are trying to use Geography key words \u2026 Mini Norway &#8211; a Tilt Shift&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[300,24,262],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-introduction","tag-lesson","tag-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}