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The Giant's Causeway
1) First of all tell me please, what are the most famous UK’s attractions. Name them (Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Giant’s Causeway). Now look at the pictures and say which attraction they describe:

Where is the attraction situated?
2) There are a few theories about the origin of the Giant’s Causeway. Which of them do you believe? a) man-made
b) natural formation
c) volcanic activity

Now listen to the text about the Giant’s Causeway. While listening, get ready to answer these questions: 1) Which of these theories about the origin of the Giant’s Causeway was proved to be right? 2) What happened according to the legend of the Giant’s Causeway?

the Country of Antrim
the Bishop of Londonderry
Finn McCool

Text: T h e G i a n t' s C a u s e w a y is a place of breathtaking beauty, one of the greatest wonders of the world, covered in mystery. It’s located in the County of Antrim in Northern Ireland, in the north-eastern part of Ireland. Its beauty was opened to people by the Bishop of Londonderry who visited the north of Ireland in 1692 and discovered the causeway. Later he spoke about it in Dublin and London and in 1694, a debate started on how it was formed. Theories ranged from men-made to natural formation, but scientists were puzzled by the amazing symmetry of thousands of columns. The mechanism of their formation was not clear until 1771 when a Frenchman explained it was the result of volcanic activity. The columns that make up the causeway were formed about 60 million years ago by cooling lava. While the Bishop brought knowledge of the causeway to a wider world, the first people who probably saw it were the hunters and gatherers who settled in the area after the last ice age (10,000 years ago). It is believed that they travelled around the densely forested north coast by boats and saw the causeway on their travels. Perhaps they created a lot of myths and legends about this area. This is...
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