Great mysteries of our world ch 7

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 1. About fifty tons.

• How much do the largest stones weigh?

• 1. How long are the largest stones?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 2. More than nine metres.

• How much do the largest stones weigh?

• 1. How long are the largest stones?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 3. On Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.

• 1. Where is Stonehenge?

• 1. How far are the mountains from Stonehenge?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 4. Almost five thousand years old

• 1. How much of Stonehenge survives?

• 1. How far are the mountains from Stonehenge?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 5. The mountains of South Wales.

• 1. How much of Stonehenge survives?

• 1. Where do the bluestones come from?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 6. About 320 kilometres.

• 1. How far are the mountains from Stonehenge?

• 1. How much do the largest stones weigh?

• 1. How old is Stonehenge?

1. Choose the correct questions for the statements below using: where, how much, how old, how long and how far.

3. 7. Only about half of the original monument survives.

• 1. Where do the bluestones come from?

• 1. How much do the largest stones weigh?

• 1. How much of Stonehenge survives?

Complete the chart about the different phases of the construction of Stonehenge.

Groups:

(a) Phase I

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(b) Phase II

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(c) Phase III

• Around 3000 BC

• They also probably placed 56 wooden posts around this hill.

• Around 2100-2000 BC

• They dug a large hole and made a small hill in the middle of it.

• Around 2000 BC

• They also added the trilithons.

• They rebuilt Stonehenge using about 80 blocks of stone

• They rearranged the blocks of stone to form the structure that survives today.

Vocabulary: Choose the odd-word-out (the one that does not belong in the group)

Example: pyramids, colossal, trilithons, monuments

Answer: colossal because it is an adjective, the other three are nouns.

1. 1. priests, rafts, Druids, Celts

• priests

• rafts

• Druids

• Celts

Vocabulary: Choose the odd-word-out (the one that does not belong in the group)

Example: pyramids, colossal, trilithons, monuments

Answer: colossal because it is an adjective, the other three are nouns.

1. 2. solstice, century, summer, legend

• 1. solstice

• 1. century

• 1. summer

• 1. legend