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7A OLD TIMES

1 Match “The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World” with the pictures. There is one extra picture.

1 2
The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

3 4
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

5 6
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus The Colossus of Rhodes

a b c d

e f g

What kind of places should we preserve for future generation?

2 Read the text and guess the name of the wonder.

It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was a giant statue of the Greek god of the
Sun, Helios. That statue was on the Greek Island of Rhodes. The people of Rhodes built that statue
to celebrate their victory against Cyprus.
Before Greeks decided to build it, they hired Chares of Lindos. Firstly, he began to work in 292 BC,
using iron tie bars to build a frame. Secondly, he filled out the body with stone blocks. After that, he
attached brass plates to it to give the structure a skin. Finally, he finished the statue in 280 BC.

The statue was more than 30 meters tall. It was the tallest statue in the ancient world. It was impressive
but an earthquake hit the island and destroyed it in 226 BC. It stood for 54 years.

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