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UNIT 16

The Great Wall of China

Pre-reading activity

1. Find China in your atlas. Find the Yellow Sea and the Gobi Desert.

2. How far away are they from each other?

3. What places do tourists visit in your country?

The Great Wall of China is so large that the men who landed on the moon could see it. It is the largest wall in the world.

It begins at Shanhaikun on the Yellow Sea and ends at Chaiyukan in the Gobi Desert. It is almost three thousand kilometers long. It is not only a wall, it has many thousands of towers.

Most of the wall is made of stone. In some places, however, it is made only of dirt.

The Chinese people started building walls as early as 600 BC to keep out their enemies. However, it was the first emperor of China, Ch'in Shih Hwang-ti, who started the Great Wall in about 214 BC. We get the word 'China' from his name.

Chinese workers built some of the Great Wall while Ch'in Shih Hwang-ti was emperor, but most of it was built much later, between 202 BC and 220 AD, and between 581 AD and 618 AD. After this time, no more work was done on the wall for hundreds of years, and much of it became broken. Then in the 15th century, the first of the Ming emperors started building another wall near the first one. This was to keep out the Mongols. It is this wall that thousands of tourists visit every day.

New words

tower: We can see a long way from the top of the tower.

enemy: John is not my friend. He is my enemy.

emperor: Julius Caesar was a Roman emperor.

tourist: Many tourists visit our country every year.

Main idea

Does each of these sentences say what each paragraph is about? Write T for true or F for false.

Paragraph 1___ The Great Wall of China is very big.

Paragraph 2___ The wall has a few towers.

Paragraph 3___ The wall is made of stone and dirt.

Paragraph 4___ The Chinese like building walls.

Paragraph 5___ The wall was built over a long time.

Vocabulary

Find the words in the passage that are near in meaning to the following.

a. nearly

b. came down to the ground

c. stop from coming in

d. a kind of king

Complete the sentences using the words in the box.

Tourists towers made of enemies landed build broken world stone

a. China built the wall to keep out its_________________ .

b. The wall was_________________ stone and dirt.

c. The wall has many_________________.

d. Many_________________ visit the wall every day.

e. I am going to_________________ a house for my family.

f. The plane has_________________ safely.

g. This computer is_________________. I cannot use it.

h. _________________ is very hard.

i. There are many interesting things in the_________________.

Choose and write the correct word.

a. How soon can you_________________ work on the building? make/begin

b. The Taj Mahal is a beautiful_________________. A prince built it for his dead wife. language/building

c. We've seen the river and the park. What would you like to_________________ today? travel/visit

d. The umbrella is_________________. broken/built

Looking for detail

Answer these questions about the passage.

a. How do we know how large The Great Wall of China is?

b. Far is it from Shanhaikun to Chaiyukan?

c. What three things can we find in The Great Wall?

d. Was The Great Wall the first wall ever built in China? Explain your answer.

e. Where do we get the name 'China' from?

f. What does 'it' refer to in paragraph 5?

g. Is the wall that tourists visit the same wall that Ch'in Shih Hwang-ti started to build?

h. What do you think the towers in The Great Wall are for?

Complete these sentences. Your answers must come from the story.

a. Tourists visit the Great Wall of China because________________________________ .

b. We remember the Emperor Ch'in Shih Hwang-ti because________________________________.

c. A second wall was built by one of the________________________________ in the 15th century.

d. If you were on the moon you________________________________.

e. If you walked at 6 kilometers an hour it would take you________________________________.

Picture comprehension