Learning activity 4 / Actividad de aprendizaje 4

Evidence: describing cities and places / Evidencia: Describiendo

ciudades y lugares

You are going to see images of five cities and their landmarks. Write a
paragraph describing each city and country it belongs and the landmark shown.
Use the vocabulary from the box for the descriptions. The first one is done for
you as an example. / A continuación verá imágenes de cinco ciudades y sus
lugares representativos. Escriba un párrafo describiendo cada ciudad, el país al
que pertenece y el lugar mostrado. Use el vocabulario dentro del recuadro para
las descripciones. La primera ha sido hecha como ejemplo.

Note: We recommend to do some research on the places to be described

before writing the paragraphs. / Nota: recomendamos hacer una pequeña
investigación sobre los lugares antes de escribir los párrafos.

a statue / a cathedral / a bridge / a river / modern buildings / boats / a

harbour / mountains / a fountain / a canal / desert / a hill / a castle /
traditional buildings / an obelisk / a square / a shopping mall / a monument /
a tower.

New York is a big city in the United

States (North America). It takes
thousand of visitors every year. The
city has a population of around 8
million people. There is a lot to see
and do in New York. You can visit the
Central Park, the Metropolian
museum and Time’s Square. In the
picture you can see the Statue of
Liberty, a monumet built between
1875 and 1986. It is 93 meters tall.
The statue is located on Liberty Island
in the Hudson River.
New York (USA) – The Statue of Liberty

Rome (Italy) – Saint Peter’s Square
Sydney (Australia) – The Sydney Opera
House
St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro, in
Italian) is an open urban space that is located
in the Vatican City, within the city of Rome. It
was entirely projected by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
between 1656 and 1667. This work is
considered the explosion of the great baroque
theater of the time as a systematization of the
power of the Catholic Church. The square is
accessed from the Via della Conciliazione and
shows, in the background, the magnificent
facade of the Cathedral of San Pedro; this
route begins in the long Giovanni XXIII, very
close to the Castel Sant'Angelo, next to the
Tiber river, passing at the end through the Pius
XII square. The square is a large trapezoidal
esplanade that widens laterally through two
passages, with an elliptical shape of
colonnades, a space that is seen as "closed
and open at the same time" topped by a
balustrade on which the figures of one hundred
and forty saints stand. various times and
places; inside there are two fountains, one in
each focus of the ellipse, and in the middle of
the square a monumental obelisk (25 meters
high and 327 tons) was erected, a stone block
without inscriptions brought from Egypt that
was in the center of a Roman circus.
The Sydney Opera House or the Sydney Opera
House, located in the city of Sydney, the state
of New South Wales, Australia, is one of the
most famous and distinctive buildings of the
twentieth century. Declared a World Heritage
Site in 2007, it was designed by the Danish
architect Jørn Utzon in 1957 and inaugurated
on October 20, 1973 by her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II, in her role as Queen of Australia.
Theater, ballet, opera or musical productions
are performed in the building. It is home to the
Opera Australia Company, the Sydney Theater
Company and the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra. It is managed by the Opera House
Trust, a public body under the supervision of
the New South Wales Ministry of Art.
In the image you can see The Sydney Harbor
Bridge, which crosses the Sydney Bay,
connects the financial center of the city with the
north coast, an area of residential and
commercial character.
After more than eight years of construction, it
was opened to the public on March 19, 1932.
Taking into account the accesses, the total
length of the bridge is 1149 m. The space
under the bridge for navigation has a height of
49 m; above the water the bridge has a length
of 503 m, which makes it the fifth longest of its

Edinburgh (Scotland) – Edinburgh Castle
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) – The Burj
Khalifa
Fuente de imágenes: Fotolia (s.f.)
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kind. The arch rises to a height of 134 m and
there you can get to see spectacular views of
the bay and the city.
The bridge supports eight lanes of cars, two rail
lines and a bike path.
Edinburgh Castle is an old fortress erected on a
rock of volcanic origin located in the center of
the city of Edinburgh. It has been used for
military purposes since the twelfth century,
being used for civil purposes only in very recent
times. It is located at the top of Castlehill Street,
one of the four streets that form the Royal Mile.
The castle is open to visitors. In the image you
can see that three of its sides are protected by
mountains and steep cliffs, access to the castle
is limited to a steeply sloping street on the
eastern side of the castle. The access to the
castle is through the esplanade, a wide paved
and inclined plane that lies between the castle
itself and the end of the Royal Mile. The castle
is entered by a portal in front of the battery,
which leads to a path that climbs to the right to
the courtyard in the center of the fortress.
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper located in
Dubai (United Arab Emirates). With 828 meters
high, it is the tallest structure in history.
The construction of the Burj Khalifa began on
September 21, 2004 and ended on January 4,
2010, more than a year later than expected.
The skyscraper stands out for having a large
number of residential plants, something
unusual so far.
In the image you can see traditional buildings
and next to the Burj Khalifa there is a large
artificial lake where the Dubai Fountain is
located, one of the essential attractions of the
city. Around the lake you will find bars and
restaurants and, of course, the famous Dubai
Mall.
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Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Nota: esta evidencia es de carácter individual. Recuerde revisar la guía de

aprendizaje con el fin de verificar que ha realizado todas las actividades
propuestas, saber cómo desarrollarlas y entregarlas correctamente.

Criterio de evaluación
Describe lugares, ciudades y países teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y
contexto requerido.