Dates: February 20-22
Magazine Lesson: The World’s Top 5 Caves
Activity Focus: Reading Comprehension, Writing Practice, Vocabulary Practice,
Act It Out!, Talk About It!
The World’s Top Five Caves
Part 1: Matching. Match each description with the correct cave.
A. Carlsbad Caverns
B. Assembling Dragon (Julong) Cave
C. Waitomo Glowworm Cave
D. Niah Caves
E. Eisriesenwelt Caves
1. _____ the oldest human skull in Southeast Asia was found in this cave
2. _____ contains a 25-story-high and 4,000-feet-long Big Room
3. _____ stalactites inside this cave look like dragons flying on clouds or playing with water
4. _____ this cave has a magnificent Cathedral
5. _____ located 40km south of the city of Salzburg
6. _____ the largest accessible system of ice caves in the world
7. _____ from May to October, visitors can watch 400,000 bats exit these caves at sunset
8. _____ visitors to this cave can take a unique boat trip under thousands of tiny living lights
9. _____ located in the mountains of southeastern New Mexico
10. _____ human inhabitants lived in this cave 40,000 years ago
11. _____ famous singers have performed in this cave
12. _____ includes ice formations, huge columns, towers of ice and frozen waterfalls
13. _____ gets its name from its surrounding mountain pinnacles
14. _____ this cave is known for its birds’ nests
15. _____ this 1000-meter-long cave system includes stalagmites, waterfalls and underwater rivers
Part 2: Writing Practice. Write one sentence using two vocabulary words.
Example: accessible; pinnacle
The pinnacle of this mountain is not accessible by car.
1. cathedral; acoustics __________________________________________________________
2. yield; spectacular ____________________________________________________________
3. ornate; artifact ______________________________________________________________
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Part 3: Vocabulary Practice. Choose the best word for each sentence.
1. I prefer plain, simple styles, so I don’t want to buy those (accessible, ornate) earrings. They’re
too fancy.
2. This concert hall has excellent (frenzy, acoustics). Most of the country’s finest musicians
have performed here.
3. The farms in this area (yield, dissolve) thirty percent of the nation’s corn.
4. The singer gave a (cathedral, spectacular) performance during her final concert. Many
people said it was the best of her career.
5. The sugar quickly (dissolved, cooled off) in the hot tea.
6. There was a (pinnacle, frenzy) at the local sports store when a famous basketball player
came in to meet fans.
7. Following the big storm, most of the area’s roads were not (accessible, artifact).
8. Sandy and Rob got married in a beautiful (cathedral, pinnacle) in northern England.
9. The National Palace Museum contains one of the largest collections of Chinese artwork and
(artifacts, limestone) in the world.
10. The (acoustics, inhabitants) of the island village have never seen a foreigner.
Part 4: Act It Out! Find a partner and act out the following scenes. Try to use the words in bold at
least three times during your conversation.
1. Leaving the theater after watching a spectacular movie…
2. Crowding into your favorite store and fighting with other customers about sale items during
a buying frenzy…
3. Meeting the inhabitants of another planet and finding out that they speak English…
4. Trying to find a creative way to cool off on a hot summer day…
5. Discovering an ornate artifact during a class trip…
6. Visiting a beautiful European cathedral for the first time…
7. Complaining to a worker that a subway station is not wheelchair accessible…
Part 5: Talk About It! Discuss the following questions with a partner.
1. What is your favorite way to cool off on a hot summer day?
2. Have you ever visited a cathedral? If so, describe your experience. If not, would you like to?
3. Imagine that it’s the year 2508 and someone has found an artifact that you left behind. What
item do you think would best describe you? Why?
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