B Work with a partner and match the places with the encyclopedia entries about them.

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With your partner discuss the following:

· have you ever been to any of them, or seen any of them?

· what else do you know about them?

1 Heathrow Airport	9 Mount Fuji
2 the North Pole	10 Uluru (Ayers Rock)
3 the South Pole	11 Easter Island
4 Table Mountain	12 the Grand Canyon
5 the Coliseum	13 Machu Picchu
6 the Taj Mahal	14 the Empire State Building
7 the Great Wall of China	15 the Amazon Forest
8 Angkor Wat	16 the Djenne Mosque

A a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona	K a volcanic island in the Pacific, discovered on Easter Sunday, 1722; noted for the remains of an aboriginal culture, which includes gigantic stone figures.
B a large isolated desert rock, sometimes described as the world's largest monolith, in the Northern Territory of Australia: sacred to local Aboriginal people. Height: 330m. Base circumference: 9 km	L the largest mud brick building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style
C a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America	M a ruined Incan city in the south of Peru
D a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street	N an extinct volcano in central Japan: the highest mountain in Japan, famous for its symmetrical snow-capped cone. Height: 3776 m. Also called: Fujiyama
E the southernmost point on the earth's axis, at the latitude of 90°S	O a large area of ruins of the former Khmer Empire in Cambodia
Fa white marble mausoleum in central India, in Agra: built (1632-43) by the emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal	P a wall in China from Gansu to the Gulf of Liaodong, constructed in the 3rd century BC as a defense against the Mongols. Length: over 2400 km; height: 6 m; width: 6 m
Ithe largest and busiest airport in the United Kingdom	Q a mountain in South Africa, overlooking Cape Town and Table Bay: flat-topped and steep-sided. Height: 1087 m (3567 ft.)
G the northernmost point on the earth's axis, at a latitude of 90°N	R an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75-80 A.D

3c Listen to a woman talking about one of the places. Which place is it? Track 12.

3d Listen again. What does she say about it? Make notes.

1 first view of it:

2 visits to it:

3 reasons for liking it:

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