Unit 14 Read

=> Some wonders are: the Great Wall, The Taj Mahal, the Angkor Wat4. What is the largest temple in the world.[r]

I WARM – UP:

Match the names of landmarks with the appropriate pictures

Angkor Wat

The Great Wall

The Taj Mahal The Pyramid of Cheops The Statute of Zeus

The Hanging Garden of Babylon

I WARM – UP:

In what country are these landmarks? Match each picture with its correct country

India

Greece

Cambodia Iraq

Egypt

China

I WARM – UP:

Do you know who this man is?

Antipater of Sidon

II VOCABULARY

1 compile (v):

biên soạn

2 (the) only (adj): nhất

the only wonder:kỳ quan nhất

3 claim (that) (v): khẳng định rằng, cho rằng

4 honor (v):

tưởng nhớ, tôn thờ

5 a Buddhist religious center (n): trung tâm phật giáo

6 royal (a):

(thuộc về) Hoàng gia

III Read the text and complete the sentences

a) The only surviving wonder on Antipater’s list is _

A the Great Wall of China C the Pyramid of Cheops B the Statue of Zeus D Angkor Wat

b) Angkor Wat was originally built for _

A Hindus C kings

B Buddishts D the citizens of Phnom Penh

c) Angkor Wat _

A was a small temple

B is one of the seven wonders of the world. C is a pyramid

D was part of a royal Khmer city a long time ago.

d) In the 1400s, the Khmer King _

A built Ankor Wat

B chose Phnom Penh as the new capital.

C turned Angkor Wat into a Buddhist center.

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D

B

IV Read the text and answer the questions

1 Who compiled the list of seven wonders of the world?

Name some wonders?

=> Antipater of Sidon did Some wonders are: the Hanging

Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus, the Pyramid of Cheops.

2 Name some wonders which the ancient Greeks didn’t know?

=> Some wonders are: the Great Wall, The Taj Mahal, the

Angkor Wat.

3 What is the largest temple in the world?

=> It is Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Wonders

Country

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Angkor Wat

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The Great Wall

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The Pyramid of Cheops

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The Taj Mahal

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The statue of Zeus

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The seven ancient wonders of the world

1 The Great Pyramid of Cheops

2 The Hanging Garden of Babylon

3 The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

4 The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

5 The Mausoleum at Halicarnasus

6 The Colossus of Rhodes

V Homework

1 Reread the text and copy it into

your exercise notebook.

2 Learn by heart vocabulary and

name some of the wonders of the

world you know.

3 Redo the exercises.

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The Mausoleum at Halicarnasus

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