Thanks to Citibank for the following geography lesson, very useful before my European holiday. A little European geography lesson: – “Spain is not Greece.” Elena Salgado, Spanish Finance minister, ...

At times, I like to think that aside from grammar, geography is another grade school trade I tend to correct people on when the time is right. I get uneasy when a friend accidentally refers to Africa ...

Install a large world map at the front of the classroom where all the students can see it. A class set of atlases and of the Activity Sheet: Flight and Asylum are also required. In this lesson, the ...

For weeks before he sent naval forces to Iceland, Franklin Roosevelt tried to make up his mind whether that rocky island, a stepping stone in the sea between Greenland and Britain, properly belonged ...

President Biden is on a four-day tour of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The pact ended decades of conflict in Ireland known as ...

In order to give the students a sense of orientation, spend a few minutes at the beginning of the lesson with the large map of the world. Some entry behaviour questions and remarks could be: Let's ...