Where is Kolkata?
Why is it important in the history of India?
What languages are spoken there?
Listen from 1:00 to 5:05
Elements of India: Earth
Split into pairs
Student A listens for these questions:
1. What can you hear in the background in the first few seconds?
3. What is his favourite one?
5. Which city is it in?
7. What does the place look like?
9. What is extraordinary about this place?
11. What do they look like?
13. How old was he when he died?
Student B listens for these:
2. What does Phillip collect?
4. Who was this place made for?
6. What is the place surrounded by?
8. For how long were people buried here?
10. What are the tombs made of?
12. Who was Anthony Hunt?
Language:
Work together. Find phrases then mean the following:
1. the dead
2. no suggestion or sign
3. how large something is
4. crosses
5. typically
6. graves
7. removed
8. graves built above ground
9. all
10. religions
11. discover
12. rotten / decaying
13. large
14. tall / high
15. buried
__________
come across
of the first rank
The British Raj
looming
decrepit
gain entry
padlocked
from time to time
Chess set
immense
monuments
the dear departed
without exception
the scale of
tombs
not a hint
crucifixes
carted away
disapproving
faiths
profoundly
to surface
temples
stupas
domes
obelisks
Etruscan
Sarchophagi
interred
What do the other words or phrases mean?
Elements of India: Earth
Split into pairs
Student A listens for these questions:
1. What can you hear in the background in the first few seconds?
3. What is his favourite one?
5. Which city is it in?
7. What does the place look like?
9. What is extraordinary about this place?
11. What do they look like?
13. How old was he when he died?
Student B listens for these:
2. What does Phillip collect?
4. Who was this place made for?
6. What is the place surrounded by?
8. For how long were people buried here?
10. What are the tombs made of?
12. Who was Anthony Hunt?
Language:
Work together. Find phrases then mean the following:
1. the dead
2. no suggestion or sign
3. how large something is
4. crosses
5. typically
6. graves
7. removed
8. graves built above ground
9. all
10. religions
11. discover
12. rotten / decaying
13. large
14. tall / high
15. buried
__________
come across
of the first rank
The British Raj
looming
decrepit
gain entry
padlocked
from time to time
Chess set
immense
monuments
the dear departed
without exception
the scale of
tombs
not a hint
crucifixes
carted away
disapproving
faiths
profoundly
to surface
temples
stupas
domes
obelisks
Etruscan
Sarchophagi
interred
What do the other words or phrases mean?
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