Learning activity 4 / Actividad de aprendizaje 4

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
Saint Peter’s Square is in Rome Italia.
It is an open urban space that is located
in the Vatican City, within the city of
Rome, and precedes, as a great
peripheral hall, the Basilica of Saint
Peter, the great temple of Catholicism.
The square is a great explanation
trapezoidal that widens laterally by
means of two passages, with an elliptical
shape of colonnades, a space that can be
seen as "closed and open at the same
time" 1 topped by a balustrade on which
the figures of one hundred and forty
saints of different times and places are
oriented; Inside there are two fountains,
one at 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 Sydney
Opera House, located in the city of
Sydney, state of New South Wales,
Australia, is one of the most famous and
distinctive buildings of the 20th century.
Declared a World Heritage Site in 2007, it
was designed by the Danish architect
Jørn Utzon in 1957 and opened 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 Australia Opera
company, the Sydney Theater Company
and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It
is administered by the Opera House
Trust, a public body under the
supervision of the Ministry of Art.

Edinburgh (Scotland) – Edinburgh Castle
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) – The Burj Khalifa
Edinburgh Castle is an ancient fortress
built on a rock of volcanic origin located in
the city center of Edinburgh. It has been
used for military purposes since the 12th
century, being intended for civilian use
only in very recent times. It is located at
the top of Castle Rock Street, one of the
four streets that make up the Royal Mile.
The castle is open to visitors and is
managed by the specialized agency
Historic Scotland. It is the most visited
paid tourist attraction in Scotland.2
Three of its sides are protected by steep
cliffs, and access to the castle is limited
to a steeply sloping street on the eastern
side of the castle. In the past there was
an artificial lake in its northern area. This
lake, called Nor'Loch (northern lake in
Spanish), was desiccated in Georgian
times with the construction of the New
City, to be used as an outdoor sewer and
later as a park. It was from this moment
on that the citadel lost most of its
defensive role.
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper located
in Dubai United Arab Emirates. At 828
meters tall, the tallest recorded structure
in history, the Burj Khalifa is the central
part of a more complex development
known in English as Downtown Dubai.
The foundation of this building is the
largest ever built. It is made up of an
innovative concept based on
geotechnical and seismic studies: the
building is supported in the first instance
by a huge concrete.
The podium allows the building to be
anchored to the foundation and has a
glass pavilion on each side, allowing
entry to the corporate suites, the Armani
hotel or the residences.