Unit 7

The Pyramids in Egypt The Great Wall

Stonehenge

Name of the site Why is it important ? What is being done to

protect it ?

1 The Winter Palace

The site is important because it tells us about how people lived in the

past.

Visitors are not allowed to go inside the house. Instead, they can walk around the house and look at the park behind the house. There is also a small museum, where visitors can look at pictures of the inside of the house.

2 The Sunshine Temple

The temple is an important part of our history; many important things happened here, and many poems have been written about the temple.

We are trying to save the temple by building a wall between the lake and the temple. We will also move some of the things in the temple to the new museum that is being built between the mountain and the village

3 Mt Lu Shan

The mountain is an important part of China’s history and many important people have been here.

We are trying to limit the number of cars on the mountain and we try to use more buses.

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Useful Expressions

What shall we put in?

Can’t we put in …?

Should we put in …?

Making suggestions

Let’s put in …

What/How about …?

Maybe we could put in …

Why not …?

I’d like to choose …

Why don’t you …

Paragraph 1 St Petersburg lies on the banks of the river Lena in Russia. More than three hundred years ago, The Russian Czar, Peter the Great, built a new capital here. Peter the Great was a strong and proud man, and the city reflects his personality.

Paragraph 2 St Petersburg has been the center of many important historical events. These events are the reason why the city has become such an important part of Russian culture and history. The people of St Petersburg fought hard against the Nazis during World War II and were determined to rebuild the city when the Nazis had left it in ruins.

Paragraph 3 Rebuilding the great city was difficult, but the people of St Petersburg succeeded. Using old photographs and rescued pieces of the old city, they managed to restore St Petersburg to its former glory.

Paragraph 4 The people of St Petersburg are heroes because they managed to rebuild the city, proving that they are at least as great as Czar Peter.

Sentences in the passage1. It is true that many of the world’s greatest cities have been built on the banks of a river.

2. Many great palaces were built during his lifetime.

3. Building were destroyed, and paintings and …

4. Pieces of the palaces that had been hidden before the Nazis came could now be used to rebuild the city and its culture.

5. now, after years of hard work, parts of statues have been put back together and missing pieces have been replaced.

6. Old paintings, including a portrait of Peter the Great which was found in the snow outside St Petersburg, have been carefully recreated, and the old palaces have been made as wonderful as in the past.

Sample writingDear Editor,

I live in a small village. Some people in my village want to destroy an old temple so that they can build a new factory. I am really unhappy about this. I understand that it is important to develop our village, but I think it is wrong to destroy the temple. The old temple is an important part of our history. If we destroy the temple, we are also destroying our past. I think it would be better if the factory was build somewhere else, maybe on the other side of our village. There is a large area south of our village where there are no houses or buildings. Why don’t we build the factory there?

Sincerely,

Concerned Villager

• When we read, we needn’t know every world we can look at the whole text or the sentence, in which we see a new word, to guess the meaning of the word. Often the text or the sentence can help us understand the words we do not know. Look at this sentence from the text:

• The word “bank” can have at least two different meanings in English. What does it mean in this sentence? What the other meaning of the word “bank”?

• Write a sentence using the second meaning of the word “bank”.

• Can you think of other words that have more than one meaning?

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