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© British Council 2013 1 Student worksheets Around the UK: Giant’s Causeway Resource A Which picture is Old Bushmills Distillery? Which picture is Giant’s Causeway? Which picture is Carrick-a-Rede bridge?
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Student worksheets -‐ Around the UK: Giant’s Causeway
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Which picture is Old Bushmills Distillery? Which picture is Giant’s Causeway? Which picture is Carrick-a-Rede bridge?
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Resource B Giant’s Causeway commentary by Jimeoin* Read the commentary then answer the questions: “Before crossing any scary bridge, pay a visit to Old Bushmills Distillery, the oldest licensed distillery in the world. Or even discover why Irish whiskey tastes so much better than Scottish whisky. Not that it’s a competition or anything. If it was, we’d win. Then it’s on to the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, just a wee bit up the road. This plank and rope bridge sways and wobbles as you cross. And as the locals say, ‘What the hell did you go and cross that for? Are you mad?’ Survive that, and it’s on to Giant’s Causeway, formed 60 million years ago by a volcanic eruption, and it’s got over 37,000 hexagonal basalt columns. I’ve counted them. 99...100... Legend has it that it was made by a giant called Finn McCool, who laid a path across the sea to reach his lady love in Scotland, (‘hello!’) who was much smaller than him (‘goodbye!’) and it never worked out.”
1. Why is the rope bridge scary?
2. Which does Jimeoin prefer, Scotch or Irish whiskey?
3. Why did the giant and his lady love break up with each other?
4. How many times can you see the word ‘who’ in the commentary?
5. Why is there no question mark after the last sentence with ‘who’ in it? *Jimeoin is a Northern Irish comedian
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Resource C Factsheet about relative pronouns “Giant’s Causeway was made by a giant called Finn McCool, who laid a path across the sea to reach his lady love in Scotland, who was much smaller than him and it never worked out.” Relative pronouns are ‘who’ or ‘which’ or ‘that’. ‘That’ is informal and can be used like ‘who’ or ‘which’. Relative pronoun ‘who’ replaces personal pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’ to link two sentences.
• Giant’s Causeway was made by a giant. He was called Finn McCool.
Giant’s Causeway was made by a giant who was called Finn McCool.
• Finn McCool had a girlfriend. She was much smaller than him. Finn McCool had a girlfriend who was much smaller than him. Relative pronoun ‘which’ replaces personal pronoun ‘it’ to link two sentences.
• Finn McCool laid a path across the sea. It went to Scotland. Finn McCool laid a path across the sea which went to Scotland. ‘Who’ and ‘which’ can also replace ‘they’. ‘Who’ replaces ‘they’ for people, and ‘which’ for things’.
• The bridge is never used by the locals. They say you are mad to cross it.
The bridge is never used by the locals who say you are mad to cross it.
• There are 37,000 hexagonal basalt columns. They come from a volcanic explosion. There are 37,000 hexagonal basalt columns which come from a volcanic explosion. ‘That’ can be used in the same way.
• Giant’s Causeway was made by a giant that was called Finn McCool. • Finn McCool had a girlfriend that was much smaller than him. • Finn McCool laid a path across the sea that went to Scotland. • The bridge is never used by the locals that say you are mad to cross it. • There are 37,000 hexagonal basalt columns that come from a volcanic explosion.
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Resource D Linking sentences about Northern Ireland Make two sentences into one with a relative pronoun (who, which, that)
1. Old Bushmills is a distillery. It is the oldest in the world. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
2. Carrick-a-Rede is a bridge. It is very scary. _________________________________________________________________
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3. Giant’s Causeway has 37,000 columns. They come from a volcano.
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4. Finn McCool was a giant. He made Giant’s Causeway. _________________________________________________________________
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5. Finn McCool had a lady love. She came from Scotland.
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Resource E Make your own commentary Write a commentary for the video “Giant’s Causeway”. Don’t copy the video, but make your new commentary using these phrases. You can use relative pronouns or words like ‘and’, ‘then’, ‘before’ or ‘if’. You can change the order of the phrases if you like.
cross any scary bridge pay a visit to Old Bushmill’s Distillery the oldest licensed distillery in the world discover the taste of Irish whiskey it is better than Scottish whisky. go on to the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge it is along the road this plank and rope bridge sways and wobbles you cross the bridge go on to Giant’s Causeway a volcanic eruption formed it 60 million years ago it’s got over 37,000 columns a giant called Finn McCool made the causeway he made a path across the sea he wanted to reach his lady love in Scotland she was much smaller than him it never worked out.
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Resource F Fill the gaps in this commentary. Use the words below.
_______ you cross any scary bridge you should pay a visit to Old Bushmills Distillery _________ is
the oldest licensed distillery in the world. You can discover the taste of Irish whiskey, _________ is
better than Scottish whisky. _________ go on to the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge_________ is
along the road. This plank and rope bridge sways and wobbles _________ you cross the bridge.
_________go on to Giant’s Causeway. A volcanic eruption formed it 60 million years ago _________
it’s got over 37,000 columns. Some people say that a giant called Finn McCool made the causeway.
He made a path across the sea _________he wanted to reach his lady love in Scotland.
_________she was much smaller than him _________ it never worked out.
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