Ex.1. Vocabulary and speaking
In pairs, look at the words below and see if your partner knows what they mean. What do you think the website shows? Use the phrases to give a few examples.
Gun
Event
Major visitor attraction
Timeline
Quirky
To avoid queuing
Concession
Ticket machine pick up
World Heritage Site
Extinct volcano
Stunning images
Top Highlights
Memorable
Turbulent past
Ex.2. Reading and speaking
In pairs, look at the statements below and discuss whether they could be true or false.
1.
You can send an e-postcard from the website. True.
2.
You can see the castle in 3D. True.
3.
The Great Hall was completed in 1611. False. It was 1511.
4.
Mons Meg is another name used for St. Margaret’s Chapel. False.
5.
You can hear the one o’clock gun every day. False.
6.
The castle rock was created by a volcanic activity. True.
7.
In 666 AD Angles captured Din Eidyn and renamed it Edinburgh. False.
8.
Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1998, capturing the castle after a three-day siege.
9.
In 1566 Mary Queen of Scots gives birth in the castle to her only child, the future
King Henry VI of Scotland and I of England.
10.
The Castle had its own prison.
11.
The Castle is visited by 500 000 visitors every year.
12.
Edinburgh Military Tattoo is a day when all Scottish soldiers get tattooed. Then most popular tattoo parlour is located at the Edinburgh Castle.
Ex.3. Reading homework
Read the texts on the Edinburgh Castle website and find out whether statements in Ex.2. were true or false. Also see if you can find out how words from Ex.1. were used on the website.
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The Edinburgh Castle website is a great resource you can use whichever way you want.
Apart from the exercise below you could:
1.
Ask students to write A Brief History of Scotland in just 10 sentences.
2.
Write a timeline and mark important events in Poland at the bottom, and important events in Scotland at the top.
3.
Write their own true or false questions that they could later swap with their friends.
Below see the answers to Ex.2.
1.
You can send an e-postcard from the website. True. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/tour.htm
2.
You can see the castle in 3. True. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/tour/3d.htm
3.
The Great Hall was completed in 1611. False. It was 1511. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/tour/highlights.htm
4.
Mons Meg is another name used for St. Margaret’s Chapel. False. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/tour/highlights.htm : This mighty medieval siege gun is one of the world’s oldest, it could fire a gunstone almost two miles. Built at Mons, Belgium, she represented the cutting edge of military technology.
5.
You can hear the one o’clock gun every day. False. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/tour/highlights/highlights-one-oclockgun.htm: Gather at 1pm to see the master gunner fire the gun – every day excpt
Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day.
6.
The castle rock was created by a volcanic activity. True. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm
7.
In 666 AD Angles captured Din Eidyn and renamed it Edinburgh. False. It was 638
AD. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm
Edward I of England invaded Scotland in 1998, capturing the castle after a three-day siege. False. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm
It was in 1296.
9.
In 1566 Mary Queen of Scots gives birth in the castle to her only child, the future
King Henry VI of Scotland and I of England. False. It was King James VI. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm
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10.
The Castle had its own prison. True. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm: 1757 to 1814
Thousands of prisoners of war – captured during the Seven Years War, the War of
American Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars – are held in the castle.
11.
The Castle is visited by 500 000 visitors every year. False. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/story/timeline.htm: The castle is
Edinburgh’s most popular attraction, with more than 1.25 million visitors a year.
12.
Edinburgh Military Tattoo is a day when all Scottish soldiers get tattooed. Then most popular tattoo parlour is located at the Edinburgh Castle. False. http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/index/events/events_promo4.htm : 3rd - 25th
August 2012 The Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual display of stunning military sets from around the world.
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