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Webquest
CLIL
The Great Wall of China
1 Pre-reading
3 Vocabulary
Do the quiz about China.
1 What is China’s official name?
a Democratic Republic of China
b People’s Republic of China
c United People’s Republic of China
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Which of these is the Chinese flag?
a
Match the words with the pictures. Then
go to the Macmillan Online Dictionary
www.macmillandictionary.com/ and check your answers by
typing the words into the search box.
a brick b coast c dragon d soldiers
e river f gate g wall
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g
b
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c
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What is the name of the capital of China today?
a Beijing b Peking c Shanghai
4 What is the main language in China?
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a Cantonese b Hakka c Mandarin Chinese
5 What is the population of China?
a 1 billion b 1.35 billion c 1.8 billion
6 What is the largest city in China?
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a Beijing b Shanghai c Hong Kong
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How old is the Chinese culture?
a 2000 years old b 3000 years old c 4000 years old
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What famous invention is from China?
a chocolate b paper c the wheel
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What is the name of China’s famous communist
leader?
a Chairman Mao b Chairman Moo c Mr Lu
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How big is China in square kilometres?
a 9.6 million b 10.3 million c 11.9 million
2 Reading
Check your answers to the quiz in 1 by doing an Internet
search for ‘China’ to find out more about the country.
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4 Reading
Search for ‘the Great Wall of China’ on the Internet, and find out
information to complete this factfile.
Great Wall of China Factfile
Chinese name:
Wan-Li Qang-Qeng
English translation:
Age:
Length:
First wall built by:
Current wall built by:
Location of the wall:
Reason for the wall:
Constructed by:
Made of:
5 Project
Can you see it from the moon?
There’s a very good view of the wall at:
Imagine you are a tour guide. Do an Internet search
and prepare a presentation about the Great Wall of
China for tourists. Talk about these things:
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geography
culture
history
route and appearance of the wall
The wall meets the ocean at:
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Teacher’s notes
The Great Wall of China
Aims
To learn about China and the history of the Great Wall.
Activities
Doing a quiz about China; skimming and scanning web sources for information; deducing vocabulary from pictures and
by consulting an online monolingual dictionary; predicting answers to general knowledge questions; reading for specific
information; researching and preparing an oral presentation.
Language
this/that/these/those, indefinite articles, plural nouns, basic personal questions and answers, the verb to be, possessive
adjectives, time, prepositions of place and orientation, plural nouns, ordinal and large cardinal numbers, vocabulary
relating to places, countries, and languages.
To use
Procedure
After Unit 1, either in class or as homework.
• This CLIL worksheet can be given as homework or be done in class. For each activity, students can either check
answers in pairs and then with the whole class, or use the Macmillan Online Dictionary to help with vocabulary if
they are working at home: www.macmillandictionary.com
• Ask students to do the quiz about China before checking answers online on the websites provided in exercise 2.
• Next, ask students to match the words and the pictures. They can use both the Google Images website, and the
Macmillan Online Dictionary to check their answers.
• Ask students to look at the picture of the Great Wall, and tell you what they see/know about it already.
• Ask students to search the Internet to find information for the Great Wall Factfile. Suggest they consult the three
websites listed, and make use of the vocabulary from exercise 3.
• The project stage can be set as homework. Students summarize the information about the Great Wall from the lesson
under the four headings given, and then add further information by doing some online research. They then prepare a
presentation for the next class. Suggest that students give their presentations as if they were tour guides giving people
a virtual tour of the Great Wall, and ask them to show images and maps.
Key
Exercises 1 & 2
1b 2c 3a 4c 5b 6c 7c 8b 9a 10a
Exercise 3
1g 2c 3a 4e 5b 6f 7d
Exercise 4
Chinese name:
Wan-Li Qang-Qeng
English translation:
10,000-Li Long Wall (10,000 Li = about 5,000 km)
Age:
over 2000 years old
Length:
6,400 km
First wall built by:
Emperor Qin of the Qin Dynasty
Current wall built by:
the Ming Dynasty
Location of the wall:
across the mountains in northern China
Reason for the wall:
to protect China from invasion or attack by northern tribes
Constructed by:
soldiers, common people, and criminals
Made of:
bricks, rocks, and packed-earth
Can you see it from the moon?
No (you can’t see it from the moon, only from space)
You get a very good view of the wall at:
Jinshanling
The wall meets the ocean at:
Shanhaiguan
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Students may like to visit these websites for information:
• www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm
• www.china.org.cn/e-changshi/index.htm
• library.thinkquest.org/20443/greatwall.html?tqliframe
• peoples-republic-of-china.org
• www.greatwallchina.info/news/Shanhaiguan-Great-Wall-Museum-opens-to-public-for-free.htm
• www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/greatwall/Allabout.html
• www.chinatour.com/attraction/attraction.htm
• www.chinahighlights.com/greatwall/fact
• www.historyforkids.org
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