Seven Wonders of the World

A. For each Wonder, choose a verb from destroy build the box and complete the information. construct be (2) Use Active and Passive verbs in Simple Past Tense. 4. The Colossus of Rhodes ______a statue of the Greek - god of the sun Helios. make be locate It ______in the city of Rhodes, on build destroy the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It ______1. The Temple of Artemis to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of ______a Greek temple for Cyprus. It ______in the Goddess Artemis. It ______around earthquake of 226 BC and it ______323 BC and it ______in one of the tallest statues of the ancient Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk world. in present-day Turkey). It ______of marble mostly. It ______by make destruct find Goths in 262. be represent put

5. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia build (2) destroy miss ______a giant seated figure, about 42 ft (13 m) tall. It ______2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 ______in Babil province, Iraq BC in Olympia, Greece, and ______by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife because in the Temple of Zeus there. It ______she ______the green hills the god Zeus sitting on a throne ornamented with precious stones. It and valleys of her homeland. They ______] around 600 BC. However, they ______during the 5th century. by an earthquake in the second century. No copy of the statue ______, and details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and

representations on coins. damage build

become be (3) survive be complete build 3. The Lighthouse of Alexandria ______by the Ptolemaic 6. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest Kingdom between 280 and 247 BC in and largest of the three pyramids in Egypt Alexandria, Egypt and it ______and the only wonder that ______. between 120 m and 137 m tall. It It ______as a tomb in 20 years ______one of the tallest man- and ______around 2560 BC. It is made structures on Earth for many 146.5 metres (481 feet), which is equal to a centuries. It ______badly ______modern 48-story building. It ______by three earthquakes between 956 and the tallest man-made structure in the world 1323. It then ______an for over 3,800 years. It is composed of over abandoned ruin. 2 ½ million blocks of limestone, which weigh

from 2 to 70 tons each.

build destroy be (2) design

7. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ______a tomb and it ______between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus, (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a leader in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria. The structure ______by the Greek architects. The Mausoleum ______approximately 45 m (148 ft) tall. It ______by earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century. The site of the Mausoleum lies in ruins today.