Unusual attractions
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RESOURCE 103
Unit 8
Culture
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Section A
1
Read the text about a tourist attraction and make notes below.
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Where is it?
2
What is it?
3
Why is it popular?
2
In pairs, take turns to tell each other about your tourist attraction. Use your notes.
3
If you search online for the two tourist attractions, they are linked together. Can you guess
why? Discuss in your pairs.
Section B
1
Read the text about a tourist attraction and make notes below.
1
Where is it?
2
What is it?
3
Why is it popular?
2
In pairs, take turns to tell each other about your tourist attraction. Use your notes.
3
If you search online for the two tourist attractions, they are linked together. Can you guess
why? Discuss in your pairs.
You can find the Blarney Stone in Blarney Castle, in the town of Blarney in Ireland.
It’s very old – the stone is in stories from the fifteenth century! Today, people travel
from all over the world to come to kiss the stone. A legend says that if you kiss it, you
get the ‘gift of the gab’. This means that you get the ability to speak well, knowing the
right thing to say at the right time. This can be especially useful when you are chatting
to someone you’re attracted to. It isn’t easy to kiss the stone. You have to go to the top
of the castle and then lean over the wall, backwards, with someone holding your legs!
Actually, now it is a bit safer because there are safety bars to stop you falling.
One tourist attraction that gets bigger and bigger each year is the Market Theatre Gum
Wall in Seattle, USA. It’s a brick wall which is covered in old pieces of chewing gum.
The idea started in 1993, when some people stuck coins to the wall using gum. Theatre
workers tried to clean off the gum but people kept adding more gum. In 1999 the city
realised that this could be an interesting tourist attraction. The gum wall is also a
popular place for people getting married in Seattle. They go there for wedding photos.
In 2015 cleaners used special machines to clean the wall completely but, a few days later,
the gum started appearing again!
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