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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. The Great Pyramids. Let’s go Let’s go to China to see the Great Wall Or ride through a desert with no walls at all. Let’s go to Egypt , to France or Japan, I’m longing to start, just as soon as I can. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
The Great Pyramids
Let’s goLet’s go to China to see the Great Wall
Or ride through a desert with no walls at all.
Let’s go to Egypt , to France or Japan,
I’m longing to start, just as soon as I can.
Let’s visit London and look at Big Ben,
Go round on a red bus - then go round again!
Let’s go to the Arctic, it won’t be too cold,
Oh, I must start my travels before I’m too old!
Look at the picture on the right and answer these questions
1. How old do you think these pyramids are?
2. Who were they built by?
3. Why were they built?
4. In which countries can they be found?
Where are you?
We are here!
Glad to meet you. Welcome to Egypt.
Read the text and fill in numerals The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World that still survives today. It was the tallest
building in the world for almost 5,000 years until the Eifel Tower
was built in 1889.
Just to give you an idea of how large the Great Pyramid is – it is
the height of a modern _?_- storey building, or over _?_ metres.
It covers an area of land the size of _?_ city streets.Workers used
_?_ blocks to build it, each weighing _?_ tons. It took _?_
workers (mostly slaves and farmers)
between _?_ and _?_ years to build
it. This means that for every minute
they worked, they added _?_ blocks
to the pyramid!
Read the text again and check The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World that still survives today. It was the tallest building
in the world for almost 5,000 years until the Eifel Tower was built in
1889.
Just to give you an idea of how large the Great Pyramid is – it is the
height of a modern 40-storey building, or over 145 metres. It covers
an area of land the size of seven city streets.Workers used 2,300,000
blocks to build it, each weighing 2.5 tons. It took 36,000 workers
(mostly slaves and farmers) between 20
and 30 years to build it. This means that
for every minute they worked, they
added three blocks to the pyramid!
Where are you?
We are here!
What do you know about the pyramids now?
We know quite a lot about the pyramids
now.
We liked Egypt very much. Goodbye.
Goodbye.
We are here now!
Where are you now?
The Hanging Gardensof Babylon
to be V3
built
100,000 slaves
built
the Great Pyramids
were by
100,000 slaves the Great Pyramids
Rewrite the following text changing the underlined verbs into the passive
The Hanging Gardens of BabylonPeople believe that King Nebuchadnezzar built the gardens as a present for his wife,Amytas, in 600 BC. Archeologists had notfound any evidences until recently that the Gardens existed at all. For a long time, experts believed that the Greekpoets had made the Gardens up. Babylonian historians do not mention them. Archeologists discovered the remains of the Palace of Babylon a few years ago and they have found huge walls which may havebeen built as part of the Gardens.The ancientBabylonians grew the Gardens 75 metresabove the ground. Today, visitors to modern Iraq can see the ruins of Babylon, though only a stone lion remains of the glory that was Babylon.
Thanks for the lesson! Goodbye!