Learning activity 4 / Actividad de aprendizaje 4

Evidence: describing cities and places / Evidencia: Describiendo

ciudades y lugares
You are going to see images of five cities and their landmarks. Write a
paragraph describing each city and country it belongs and the landmark shown.
Use the vocabulary from the box for the descriptions. The first one is done for
you as an example. / A continuacin ver imgenes de cinco ciudades y sus
lugares representativos. Escriba un prrafo describiendo cada ciudad, el pas al
que pertenece y el lugar mostrado. Use el vocabulario dentro del recuadro para
las descripciones. La primera ha sido hecha como ejemplo.
Note: We recommend to do some research on the places to be described
before writing the paragraphs. / Nota: recomendamos hacer una pequea
investigacin sobre los lugares antes de escribir los prrafos.

a statue / a cathedral / a bridge / a river / modern buildings / boats / a

harbour / mountains / a fountain / a canal / desert / a hill / a castle /
traditional buildings / an obelisk / a square / a shopping mall / a monument /
a tower.

New York is a big city in the United

States (North America). It takes
thousand of visitors every year. The
city has a population of around 8
million people. There is a lot to see
and do in New York. You can visit the
Central Park, the Metropolian
museum and Times Square. In the
picture you can see the Statue of
Liberty, a monumet built between
1875 and 1986. It is 93 meters tall.
The statue is located on Liberty
Island in the Hudson River.
New York (USA) The Statue of
Liberty

Rome (Italy) Saint Peters Square

Sydney (Australia) The Sydney

Opera House

Rome is the capital of Italy. The city is located in

the central-western
portion
of
the
Italian pennsula, within Lazio (Latium), along
the shores of Tiber river. The vatican city is
an independent country geographically located
within the city boundaries of Rome, the only
existing example of a country within the city: for
this reason Rome has been often defined as
capital of two statesIn the picture you can
see the St. Peters Basilica, which was built
between 1506 and 1626 and borders the aquare
to the west. The cathedral is the largest in the
world. its interior is decorated with magnificent
monuments, many of which were created by the
great Bernini.
The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South"
wales, Australia is one of the most distinctive
and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of
the most famous performing arts venues in the
world. Situated on Bennelong point in Sydney
Harbour, with parkland to its south and close to
the enormous Sydney Harbour Bridge, the
building and its surroundings form an iconic
Australian image. To some the spherical-sectioned
shells remind them of the flotilla of sailboats
commonly cruising there. Tourists - mostly with
little or no interest in opera - throng to the
building in their thousands every week purely to
see it. As well as many touring theatre, ballet,
and musical productions the Opera house is the
Home of Opera Australia, the Sydney theatre.
company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
in the picture you can see the building of the
bridge coincided with the construction of a
system of underground railways in Sydney's
CBD, known today as the City Circle, and the
bridge was designed with this in mind. The
bridge was designed to carry six lanes of road
traffic, flanked by two railway tracks and a
footpath on each side. Both sets of rail tracks
were linked into the underground Wynyard
railway station, on the south side of the bridge,
by symmetrical ramps and tunnels. The easternside railway tracks were used to carry trams
from the north into a terminal within that station.

Edinburgh (Scotland) Edinburgh

Castle

Dubai (United Arab Emirates) The

Burj Khalifa

Edinburgh (Scotland) Scotland's most famous

castle dominating the city skyline, there is plenty
to see and do with the perfect balance between
all things traditional and contemporary. There
are World-class museums and galleries to visit,
excellent shopping to distract you and some of
Scotlands finest restaurants to tempt your
tastebuds. In the picture you can see the
Edinburgh Castle is situated on Castle Rock in
the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Castle Rock
formed after a volcano erupted over 340 million
years ago. The first castle that existed on the
rock was known as The Castle of the Maidens.
According to legend, the castle had been a
shrine to the Nine Maidens, one of whom was
Morgan le Fay.
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) is the main trading
center of the entire Gulf, has the principal port
facilities of the UAE as well as its busiest airport,
and has several large commercial enterprises.
The UAE has four other international airports.
Several features of the UAE's demography are
unusual. The population in 1995 was 15 times
larger than it was in 1965, largely due to the
immigration of male expatriate workers. Fourfifths of the UAE's inhabitants are foreign
workers and their dependents. In the picture you
can see the Vertical City and A Living Wonder,
Burj Khalifa, developed by Dubai-based Emaar
Properties PJSC, is the worlds tallest
building.Rising gracefully from the desert, Burj
Khalifa honors the city with its extraordinary
union of art, engineering and meticulous
craftsmanship. At 828 meters (2,716.5 ft), the
200-storey Burj Khalifa has over 160 habitable
stories, the most of any building in the world.
The tower was inaugurated on January 4, 2010,
to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the
Accession Day of His Highness Sheikh
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum as the
Ruler of Dubai. Arguably the worlds most
prestigious address, Burj Khalifa is responsible
for a number of worldfirsts. The tower became
the worlds tallest man-made structure just 1,325
days after excavation work started in January
2004.

Fuente de imgenes: Fotolia (s.f.)

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Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning
guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.
Nota: esta evidencia es de carcter individual. Recuerde revisar la gua de
aprendizaje con el fin de verificar que ha realizado todas las actividades
propuestas, saber cmo desarrollarlas y entregarlas correctamente.

Criterio de evaluacin
Describe lugares, ciudades y pases teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y
contexto requerido.