Do you know what these are?

MATCH THE WORDS TO THEIR DEFINITION

disaster
1. A ______________ is something very bad that happens and which causes a lot of damage
enormous
2. something that is ____________________ is extremely large in size or amount
ground
3. the__________________________________ is the surface of the earth
grow
4. if you___________ a particular type of plant, you put seeds or young plants in the ground and look after
them as they develop
rope
5. a__________is a thick cord that is used for jobs such as pulling cars or tying things together
stone
6. a ________ is hard, solid substance found in the ground and often used for building houses
special
7. _________ is something different from normal, and better or more important than other people or things
system
8. a set of equipment or parts which are used for doing something is called ______.
truth
9. the ____________ about something is all the facts about it, rather than things that are invented or
imaginedwood
10. ________________ is the material which forms the parts of a tree
 Complete the sentences with the words in the Keywords box.

1 On weekends I go climbing. I use a ____________

rope to climb the mountains.

2 Do you have a ____________

system to learn English vocabulary?

3 wood
The table and chairs in my house are made of ____________.

4 Do you ____________
grow flowers and vegetables in your garden?

5 Oh, no! There’s an earthquake! It’s a ____________!

disaster
6 The archeologist found some interesting objects in the ____________.
ground
7 This pizza is ____________.
enormous There’s enough for ten people!

8 The Taj Mahal in India is a beautiful, white ____________

stone building.

9 An honest person always tells the ____________.

truth
10 Today is a ____________
special day—it’s our anniversary.
What do you know about the Easter Island Statues?
 Find these numbers in the article. What do they refer to? Write a sentence for
each number.

1 four ____feet_____ Some of the statues are four feet tall.

2 eleven _miles___________ From Aracaju to Sampa is eleven miles

3 twelve _flights___________ If you travel to Japan twelve times, you get twelve flights

4 thirty _years___________ I'm thirty years old

5 thirty-three ___feet_________ My building is thirty-three feet tall

6 eighty __tons__________ This stone weights eighty tons

7 two thousand one hundred and fifty ___miles_________ From NY to California is 2,150 miles

8 fifty thousand _tourists___________ The Easter Island welcomes around fifty thousand tourists for
year.
 READ THE TEXT

José Tuki is a 30-year-old artist from Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean. He’s sitting on Anakena beach and he’s
looking at enormous statues of people—the moai. The statues are from four feet tall to 33 feet tall. Some of them weigh
more than 80 tons. They are hundreds of years old. The moai are made of a type of stone that doesn’t exist on Anakena
beach. People made the statues in a different place and then they moved them 11 miles to the beach. “How did they do it?”
Tuki asks.
The first Polynesians arrived at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by canoe hundreds of years ago. This small island is 2,150 miles
west of South America. These days, 12 flights arrive every week from Chile, Peru and Tahiti. In 2011, 50,000 tourists flew to
Easter Island. All the tourists go to see the moai.
There are different ideas about how the Rapa Nui people moved the moai. Some historians think the ancestors used ropes
and wood and pulled the statues along the ground. The scientist and writer Jared Diamond thinks that many people moved
the statues. He also thinks that the people cut down the trees on the island. They needed the wood to move the statues.
They also needed a lot of space without trees to grow food. Because they cut down the trees there was an environmental
disaster on the island.
But archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University Long Beach don’t
agree with Jared Diamond. They say that it was possible to move the statues with a small number of people and a system
of ropes. Last year National Geographic Expeditions Council paid for an experiment to test Hunt and Lipo’s idea.
Easter Islander José Tuki says, “I want to know the truth, but maybe the island doesn’t tell all its answers.” He thinks that
the moai are very special and powerful and maybe it’s not a good idea to know the truth.
Read the article and choose the correct option.

1. The Easter Island statues …

a) are modern. 6. Easter Island …
b) are moving. a) is very near South America.
c) are very old. b) is in the South Pacific Ocean.
c) is a large island.
2. People don’t really understand … 7. Tourists travel to Easter Island …
a) what the statues are made of.
b) where the statues came from. a) by boat.
c) how people on the island moved the statues. b) by canoe.
c) by plane.
3. In general, scientists and historians …
a) have the same ideas about the history of the statues. 8. Some historians think …
b) do not agree about the history of the statues. a) people moved the statues with ropes and wood.
b) animals pulled the statues along the ground.
c) have no idea about the history of the statues.
c) people didn’t move the statues.
4. José Tuki … 9 Jared Diamond thinks that …
a) lives on a beach.
b) is an artist. a) there were trees on the island in the past.
c) makes statues. b) people built the statues after a disaster.
c) people grew a lot of trees on the island.
5. The moai … 10 José Tuki …
a) are statues of animals.
b) are made of wood. a) knows the truth about the statues.
c) are very big and heavy. b) doesn’t know the truth about the statues.
c) doesn’t think the moai are important.
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