16.11.24 SB Unit 4 Video

1. Which country has the most World Heritage Sites? The country with the most sites is Italy. It currently has 49 sites and may soon have more. Italy is followed by China and then Spain.

2. In which city is this World Heritage Site? the Forbidden City, which is in China, in the capital city Beijing.

3. What kind of building is this? the Mezquita in Córdoba, Spain.

4. Jeju is a popular tourist destination in which Asian country? Jeju in South Korea.

5. What kind of building is this? the Kennecott mine in Alaska, 

6. Think of one thing that makes Lake Baikal so special. it’s the biggest lake with fresh water in the world

7. In which ocean would you find these statues: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian or Arctic?

8. What makes this section of the River Rhine in Germany a World Heritage Site?  forty castles on its banks.

9. In which country would you find these rock formations: Italy, China, Morocco or Turkey?

10. At what angle was the Tower of Pisa leaning at its worst? 3.9 degrees, 5.5, 7.2 or 10.6?

11. When was Machu Picchu built: 2nd century, 7th, 11th or 15th?

12. What’s the name of this mountain?, Mount Kilimanjaro. 

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So the answers.

 

1. The country with the most sites is Italy. It currently has 49 sites and may soon have more. Italy is followed by China and then Spain.

 

2.This is of course the Forbidden City, which is in China, in the capital city Beijing. It’s over 600 years old and in front of the entrance there is the biggest city square in the world called Tiananmen Square.

 

3. This is the Mezquita in Córdoba, Spain. It was originally a small church. Then it was shared with Muslims before it became a mosque. Finally, it was converted into a cathedral. So if you have any of those answers – church, mosque or cathedral – you can have a point.

 

4 This is the island of Jeju in South Korea. We said it was a popular tourist destination. In fact, the air route between the capital of South Korea, Seoul, and Jeju is the busiest in the world outside the US, with flights carrying over ten million people every year.

 

5 This is the Kennecott mine in Alaska, part of a US national park. They used to mine for copper here, which is a reddish metal. Chile also has a copper mine and town as a World Heritage Site.

 

6 Lake Baikal in Russia is special because it’s the biggest lake with fresh water in the world: it contains 20% of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. It is also the deepest lake in the world with the clearest water. And it’s also perhaps the oldest lake – 25 million years old. So if you have written down any of these facts, score a point.

 

7 These are the Statues on Rapa Nui, which you may also know as Easter Island. The island is in the Pacific Ocean.

 

8 The Upper Middle Rhine Valley is a lovely area – fantastic not least for the forty castles on its banks. Some of those castles are in ruins, but quite a few are now hotels. The area also has several medieval towns and is known for its vineyards, where they grow the grapes for the famous Riesling wine. Any of those three things: castles, medieval towns or vineyards, and I’ll give you a point.

 

9  These rock formations are in the area of Cappadocia and the country is ... Turkey. Believe it or not, these were formed by the winds that blow across the area. People also started living inside the rocks around 2,000 years ago.

 

10 At its low point, the Tower of Pisa was leaning by 5.5 degrees from the straight. Around the beginning of this century, there was an effort to save the building, and after the repairs it now only leans at 3.9 degrees.

 

11. After Machu Picchu became a ruin it was ‘lost’ and not discovered again till 1911. It was actually built in the fifteenth century – they think in about 1450 – and it only existed for about a hundred years!

 

12 It is, of course, Mount Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania and is Africa’s highest mountain.

 

So that’s it. Did anyone get 12 out of 12?

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Read this short article and find the answers to the questions in Exercise 1.p 40 unit 4

• Прочитайте эту короткую статью и найдите ответы на вопросы в Упражнении 1.

The idea of creating a list of World Heritage Sites began in the 1950s when the ancient ruins of Abu Simbel in Egypt were in danger from a plan to build a dam and create a huge lake.

• Идея создания списка объектов Всемирного наследия возникла в 1950-х годах, когда древние руины Абу-Симбел в Египте оказались под угрозой из-за плана построить плотину и создать огромное озеро.

The lake was going to flood the Abu Simbel Temple and destroy it.

• Озеро должно было затопить храм Абу-Симбел и уничтожить его.

However, several countries worked together to save the temples by cutting them up and moving them to higher ground.

• Однако несколько стран объединились, чтобы спасти храмы, разрезав их и переместив на возвышенность.

The work involved archaeologists, engineers and financial support from a number of governments internationally.

• В работе участвовали археологи, инженеры, а также финансовая поддержка ряда правительств на международном уровне.

After this, an agreement was signed by many countries to protect places which are very important culturally or environmentally.

• После этого было подписано соглашение многими странами о защите мест, которые имеют большое культурное или экологическое значение.

Since the 1970s, almost 1,000 places have been listed.

• С 1970-х годов в список было внесено почти 1 000 мест.

These include islands, lakes, mountains and rivers, and everything from cave paintings to roman ruins, medieval towns to churches and mosques, and even early industrial buildings.

• Они включают острова, озера, горы и реки, а также все, от наскальных рисунков до римских руин, средневековых городов до церквей и мечетей, и даже ранние промышленные здания.

The list is managed by the United Nations organisation UNESCO.

• Список управляется организацией Объединенных Наций ЮНЕСКО.