"wonders of the world" читательская грамотность

Корниенко Инна Александровна

учитель английского языка

МБОУ СОШ №2 г. Белая Калитва.

Тема материала: «чудеса света».

Аудитория –обучающиеся 10 класса.

Язык - английский, УМК «Еnglish» Афанасьева.

Текст – линейный.

Источник текста: https://enrutext.com/

Задания к тексту составлены для разных уровней сложностей:

Цель:    Развитие функциональной читательской грамотности при работе над текстом.

Задачи:   Совершенствование умения:  

• извлекать информацию различного уровня из текстов, 

• пользоваться компенсационными умениями, 

• прогнозировать содержание текста, 

• использовать содержание текста для умения выражать свои мысли в устной и письменной речи, 

• интерпретировать содержание текста в контексте затронутых в нем проблем.

Wonders of the World

А. Humans are generally good at noticing beautiful things. Humans are also generally good at building beautiful things. A Wonder of the World is a landmark¹ or a natural phenomenon that is significant  enough to be noticed by any person around the world. Many different lists of the Wonders of the World were made over the course of history, so let’s have a look at some!

B. The first of such lists was made by a Greek historian Herodotus. Only three places were mentioned in it. Eventually the list was expanded up to seven Wonders. Probably everyone can name at least some of those monuments:____1_____.

C. The curious thing about these Wonders is that almost all of them represent the Greek culture. Another thing to note is that the ancient Greeks haven’t actually used the term ‘wonder’, but instead it was a list ‘of things to see’, making such lists essentially² just a travel guide. Almost all of these Wonders ____2_____one way or another, and today only the Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or the Pyramid of Khufu, still stands.

D. This wasn’t the only list of supposed Wonders though. Later on, many attempts were made (with a little to no consensus) to either make a new list or add more Wonders to the existing one. The most remarkable candidates were Colosseum of Rome, Hagia Sophia of Istanbul, Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.

Another peculiar³ attempt was made in 1994. The American Society of Civil Engineers made a list of Seven Wonders of Modern World, focusing mainly on an engineering _____3_____. Among other projects, this list features Panama Canal, Channel Tunnel and CN Tower of Toronto, which was the tallest structure in the world up to 2007.

E. There is also a list of Natural Wonders of the World. It included the Great Barrier Reef, Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon of Arizona and, curiously enough, aurorae⁴, making it the first list of its kind to include a phenomenon instead of a place.

F. But what about the world beyond Earth? Surely, it must have its wonders too! And indeed, in 1999, an attempt was made to list Seven Wonders of the Solar System. Amongst those were____4_____, the asteroid belt and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

Ultimately, the world is too big of a place to make an exhaustive list of all landmarks worth visiting. But those that didn’t make into any prominent list are still protected and treasured by their neighbours. The organization that manages the lists of such landmarks and attends⁵ to any legal matters regarding them is called ____5______.

Подсказки:

1. ¹ landmark – достопримечательность;

2. ²essentially – по сути 

3. ³ peculiar – необычный, своеобразный;

4. ⁴ aurorae (множ.) – полярные сияние

5. ⁵ ; attends (контекст.) – поддерживать что-либо в порядке, обслуживать.

Task1. Read the text. Match the titles 1-8 and the paragraphs A- F. One title is odd.

1.Who ruins the wonders?

2. Modern wonders.

3. Green wonders

4. The initial list of wonders

5. Wonders of our universe.

6. What is wonder?

7. Culture of numerous places to see

Task2. Complete the paragraphs with the missing phrases given below:

A. scope of selected projects

B. the Great Pyramid of Giza; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the Lighthouse of Alexandria; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; the Temple of Artemis; the Statue of Zeus at Olympia

C. the rings of Saturn

D. UNESCO

E. were destroyed

Task 3. Answer the questions, give full answers.

1. What is significant for any person in the world?

2. Who represented Wonders most of all according this text?

3. What organization deals with this issue( wonders of the world) ?

4. What kinds of wonders have you read about in this text?

5. What wonders from the text are familiar to you?

Task 4. Say true, false or not stated?

1. People are the best masters of wonders.

2. A philosopher was at the origin of the beginning history of lists of wonders .

3. Every year lists of wonders are expended

4. There were dozen attempts to make lists of Wonders.

5. No one human community takes care about the Wonders.

Task 5. Look through the text and write a short statement answering the following questions: 1. What wonders can you add? 2. Why should we save these wonders? 3. What places from the text would you like to visit and why? 4. What wonders of our country do you know?

Варианты ответов:

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2

3.

1.The text tells us wonders are.

2. Greek culture did it.

3. UNESCO is.

4. I’ve read about places like the Great Pyramid of Giza; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the Lighthouse of Alexandria; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and etc.

5.They all are familiar to me as I read a lot about them in my childhood.

4.

1.True 2. True 3. N\s 4. N\s 5. False

5.

Wonders of the World are our heritage. I’ve read about numerous ones but I am sure there are much more places and things which we can call Wonders. No doubt, the monument of Motherland in Volgograd and also all complex there are our Wonders! Our lake Baikal is a unique place! Undoubtedly, we must save them for our descendants to tell our history! My dream is to see all wonders in the world. I’ve started with our country as we have a lot for example, St. Basil Cathedral, valley of Geysers in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk! I can say about it for a long time.