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NATURE NATURE AND CLIMATE AND CLIMATE NATURAL WONDERS – Look at the list below. What do these places have in common? ⃝ The Great Pyramid of Giza ⃝ The Hanging Gardens of Babylon ⃝ The Colossus of Rhodes ⃝ The Statue of Zeus at Olympia ⃝ The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus ⃝ The Lighthouse of Alexandria ⃝ The Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus – Which do you think is the greatest one and which could be unreal?
LISTENING 1. Listen to the recording and tick the places from the list above that the speaker mentions in the recording. What are the three types of world wonders mentioned in the recording? How do they differ? How were they created, by nature or by man? Can you name the new seven wonders?
READING 2. Read the text and put the sentences into the appropriate places. Fill in the blanks on the map of wonders with the correct names.
7 WONDERS OF NATURE a) As our slogan says, “If we want to save anything, we first need to truly appreciate it!” b) The initiative attracted 100 million votes from around the world before the voting finished on November 11, 2011. c) Other organizations created lists of the marvels of Mother Nature, but here we present the original list put together by CNN. d) Our planet is full of amazing and wonderful sights that make it more than worth trying to save. New 7 Wonders of Nature (2007–2011) was an initiative started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll. 1) _________. So, in the list of the most amazing creations of nature put together there are: The Grand Canyon, which is found in the US in the state of Arizona. Created over 6 million years ago by the Colorado River the canyon is over 277 miles long, ranges from 4-18 miles in width and has a depth of 6000 ft. The Great Barrier Reef, stretching over 1,600 miles covering an area of 133,000 sq miles, which is the largest coral reef on earth, located in the coral sea of the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia. The reef contains 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands and in 1981 was aknowledged as a World Heritage Site.
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