Assessment

1. | Answer the questions based on the information given in the passages and make three more to ask your classmates.

1. What is the size of Kamakura Buddha?
2. How much does it weigh? Where does it stand?
3. What happened to the original temple?
4. Where are the man-made cliff dwellings situated?
5. What can you say about the Great Barrier Reef?
6. Who was the Hermitage Museum founded by?
7. How many minarets and domes does The Sultan Ahmed Mosque have?
2. Match the words with their definitions.

1. snorkelling 2. clam 3. reef 4. coral 5. dugong 6. inshore 7. astounding 8. mangrove | a hard substance that is red, pink or white in colour, and that forms on the bottom of the sea from the bones of very small creatures. a long line of rocks or sand near the surface of the sea towards or close to the land a tropical tree that grows in mud or at the edge of rivers and has roots that are above the ground the sport or activity of swimming underwater with a snorkel so surprising that it is difficult to believe a large sea animal with thick greyish skin, which lives mainly in the Indian Ocean and eats plants a shellfish that can be eaten. It has a shell in two parts that can open and close.

3. Correct the mistakes in the sentences.
1. The Great Barrier Reef is not included in the World-heritage list.
2. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park stretches for 1,300 km along Australia’s north coast.
3. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was established in 2000 for the people.
4. More than 600 species live in the Reef.
5. Hermitage Museum is called “Dance of the Spirits”.
6. The Hermitage Museum was founded in 1864.
7. St Basil’s Cathedral is centered in modern day Turkey.