Travel
Module 8
Let’s practice our English pronunciation
Warming up
Answer!
Do you like travelling?
Have you ever been to any historic places in our country or abroad?
Do you enjoy visiting historic places?
Have you ever visited any mystic place?
What do you think our theme today is?
Look at pp 138-139 and say what we are going to do at the lesson.
Mystic places
Vocabulary
Remains – останки, развалины
Temple – храм
Remote – удалённый
Inhabit – населять
At least – по крайней мере
Cave / Be caved – пещера, быть выдолбленным
Dedicated monks – посвящённые монахи
Worship – поклоняться, почитать
Surface – поверхность
Ancient – древний
Otherwise – иначе, иным образом, иначе говоря
Feat – подвиг, достижение искусства, мастерство
Craftsmanship – мастерство, тонкая работа
Properties – свойства, собственность; имущество
Priestess – жрица, священнослужительница
Offerings – подношения; пожертвования
Swamp – болото
Do you know what these words mean?
Easter – also called Pascha (Greek/Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
‘Moai’ – Moai i/ˈmoʊ.aɪ/, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between 1250 and 1500 A.D.
Lord Shiva – one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme God within Shaivism.
Incas – the Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century.
Oracle – the Oracle of Delphi, also known as the Pythia, is a speaker of the prophecies of Apollo
Treasury - a place where currency or precious items like gold, diamonds etc are kept.
Easter
.
‘Moai’
.
Easter Island
Vocabulary
Found = open
Small = tiny
South America
Remote = distant, far
Notice = discover
Magnificent = beautiful, impressive
Transported = moved, carried
Remain = stay, be
Easter Island
- a small island in the Pacific Ocean
- had very few trees and animals (30)
- the hundreds of magnificent stone statues
- statues “moai” are up to 10 metres tall and weight about 80 tones
- one theory of a great civilisation which built them
Easter Island
1) Why was the Island called like Easter Island?
2) Who found this Island?
3) What is the location of it?
4) What unusual things can we find there?
Lord Shiva
.
Kailasa Temple
Kailasa Temple
Cut by hand
Cliff
Dedicated
Monks
Worship = to praise the gods
Create
Structure
Carve
Surface
To be covered with
Symbols
Figures
Temple
Honour
Below
Elephants
Ancient culture
Found
Find
1) Храм Кайласа – это один гигантский камень, который обточили вручную до состояния одного здания.
2) Вы найдете храм Кайласа в городке Эллора в западной части Индии к северу от Мумбаи.
3)Каждая поверхность в храме покрыта символами и фигурами, а также прекрасными скульптурами.
4) Храм был построен в честь Индийского бога, Лорда Шива. Многие монахи поклоняются ему до сих пор.
Incas
.
Machu Picchu
South America
‘The lost City of the Incas’
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
Мачу Пикчу – древний город, расположенный в 2500 метрах над уровнем моря в Андах.
Этот город был поврежден испанскими захватчиками.
Большинство строений этого города сохранились.
Большинство зданий построены из сухого камня без использования цемента.
Oracle
.
Delphi
Treasury
.
Which place is it: A, B, C, D
cannot be easily seen? _____
is in the middle of an ocean? _____
Took about 150 years to create? _____
was discovered by an American? _____
includes a stadium? _____
is at the base of a mountain? _____
was discovered by a European? _____
includes a park? _____
was built for religious reason? _____
has decorations below ground level? _____
C
A
B
C
D
D
A
C
B
B
A
B
C
D
True / False / Not stated
The island got its name because it was found on Easter Sunday.
The island was not inhabited.
There were hundreds of magnificent wooden statues on the island.
The temple was carved from a single rock.
Generations of dedicated monks worshipped the Hindu god Lord Shiva about 8 centuries.
Machu Picchu was lost in the last century.
Machu Picchu was found by the Dutch explorer.
The walls of the buildings are made from dry stone with strong cement.
In the ancient times Delphi was thought to be the centre of the known world.
The Oracle always gave true predictions.
T
F
F
T
N. S.
N. S.
F
F
T
N. S.
How are the following related to each place?
Jacob Roggeveen
Lord Shiva
Spanish invaders
The Oracle
Hiram Bingham
The Pithia
Monks
found Easter Island and gave it its name.
is a Hindu god. The Kailasa Temple was
built to honour him.
damaged many Incan ruins, but not
Machu Picchu.
said to be the spirit of the god Apollo,
predicted the future and answered people’s
questions.
was the American who found Machu Picchu in 1911.
was the high priestess of the Temple of
Apollo.
worked and worshipped at the Kailasa Temple.
Geographical features
Lake, woods, stream, mountain range, canal, pond, dam, valley, bay, glacier, waterfall, hot spring, desert, swamp, grassland, forest, cliff, plain, river, cave
Water
Land
Lake
Stream
Canal
Pond
Dam
Waterfall
Hot spring
River
Glacier
Bay
Woods
Mountain range
Valley
Glacier
Bay
Desert
Swamp
Grassland
Forest
Cliff
Plain
Cave
Note the difference
Live жить Loose терять
Inhabit населять Disappear исчезать
Mystic мистик Ruins руины
Mystery загадка, тайна Remains останки
Carve вырезать, гравировать Familiar знакомый
Cut резать, разрезать Known известный
Archeological археологический Predict предсказывать
Ancient древний Forecast прогнозировать
Note the difference
Honour почитать, чтить
Praise хвалить, восхвалять
Preserve хранить, сохранять
Conserve консервировать
Fail провалиться, не исполнить, преминуть
Miss пропустить
Ex. 6 p. 139
Inhabited 2. carved 3. mystery 4. preserve 5. lost 6. ruins
7. Fail 8. archeological 9. known 10. predict 11 praise
Complete the table
.
Place
Location
Purpose/ age
When was found
Who by
Easter Island
In the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles from South America
Machu Picchu
Kailasa Temple
Delphi
On Easter
Sunday 5th
April 1722
Jacob
Roggeveen,
Dutch
explorer
Andes
Mountains
in Peru
American
Hiram
Bingham
In 1911
A royal
residence
Elora, 300 km
northeast of
Mumbai
To honour the
Hindu god,
Lord Shiva/Around
8th century
Mount
Parnassus
in Greece
Home of the
Oracle, the
Temple of Apollo, 5th -6th centuries BC
Speaking
Don’t forget to tell
where it is
when was it built and what for
when was it found and who by
how it looks like or how it was built
if you’d like to visit it and why
