Lesson #4 places near and far updated oct 2011

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Are you a good judge?

I’m going to show you some pictures which

have been judged to be the best in the world.

I want you to put them into the same order as

the judges.(From 10th to 1st)

If your thinking is the same as the judges, each correct answer earns your team 5

points.

Wildlife

Three Owls

Crow and Owl

Leopards

Butterflies

Frozen Bird

Wildcat

Ants

Seagulls

Sea Bird

Deer

Paintings

Starry Night (Van

Gogh)

The Sistine (Michelangelo)

Water Lilies (Monet)

Last Supper (Da

Vinci)

Sunday After-noon (Seurat)

Campbell Soup (Warhol)

Mona Lisa (Da Vinci)

Night Watch (Rem-brandt)

Guernica (Picasso)

Venus (Botticelli)

Lesson #3 REVIEW

Why did Timbuktu be-come a poor town?

Where is Tim-buktu?Finally, in 1824, the

Geographical Soci-ety of Paris offered a generous prize of 10,000 francs to anyone who could bring back news of Timbuktu.

Of these four famous build-ings, which one is NOT found

in France?

Where is Tim-buktu?It was a danger-

ous mission, and the first person to return alive was Frenchman Rene Caillie.

Where is Tim-buktu?He traveled

through the desert for a year, learning Arabic and disguising himself as an Arab.

Where is Tim-buktu?When he arrived in

Timbuktu in 1828, though, instead of gold and riches, he found a poor town with a strong intel-lectual and reli-gious life.

Where is Tim-buktu?The houses were

small and made of earth, not gold.

Where is Tim-buktu?When the French

colonized the area in 1894, more than twenty schools were still open and doing very well.

How many years passed between Rene Caillie’s arrival in Tim-buktu, and French col-

onization?

Comprehension Ques-tion

Comprehension Ques-tion

What was Timbuktu like when Rene Caillie ar-

rived?

Vocabulary Generous

(3rd Paragraph 1st sentence.)

Large (prize)

“Finally, in 1824, the Geographical Society offered a generous prize of

10,000 francs…” (p81)

Vocabulary Mission

(3rd Paragraph 3rd sentence.)

Task“It was a dangerous mission, and

the first person to return alive was Frenchman Rene Caillie.”

(p81)

Vocabulary Disguise

(3rd Paragraph 4th sentence.)

To Cover“He traveled through the desert

for a year, learning Arabic and disguising himself as an Arab.”

(p81)

Vocabulary Intellectual

(3rd Paragraph 6th sentence.)

Mental“instead of gold and riches, he

found a poor town with a strong intellectual and religious

life.” (p81)

Please match the word with the Cat.