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प्रश्न
How many world Heritage sites were there around the world?
उत्तर
There are 890 world Heritage sites around the world.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Pair up with your partner and answer the following question.
Have you heard about UNESCO?
Pair up with your partner and answer the following question.
What is meant by Heritage?
Pair up with your partner and answer the following question.
Do you know of any Heritage building in your own city?
Complete the following flow chart by choosing the option given below to show how any site of any country can become a World Heritage Site.
Options :
- Inclusion of the name of the site from the tentative list to the nomination file.
- The name of the site is inscribed on the World Heritage List after meeting the criteria.
- Inclusion of the name of the site for the nomination in a tentative list after an inventory in-country or State.
- The decision of the World Heritage Committee after review of the nominated file.
- A review of the included file by the advisory bodies.
Make a list of sites from our State which are included in the World Heritage Sites. Try to visit one of them. Write the importance of this World Heritage Site. Also, write your impression of it in your notebook.
The country where Mount Huangshan is situated ____________
The place where the conference based on Human Environment was held __________________.
We can get more information about World Heritage Sites from it __________________.
Complete the following flow- chart by choosing from the options given below to show how any site of any country can become a World Heritage Site.
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- Inclusion of the name of a site from the tentative list to the nomination file.
- Name of the site is inscribed on the World Heritage list after meeting the criteria.
- Inclusion of the name of site for the nomination in a tentative list after an inventory in the country or the state.
- Decision of the World Heritate Committee after review of the nominated file.
- A review of the file included by the advisory bodies.
B1. Read the following passage and do the activities:
- International World Heritage Program is administered by ______.
- UNESCO
- WHO
- WHC
- UN
- World Heritage Sites are significant ______.
- Naturally and culturally
- Naturally and traditionally
- Naturally and literary
- None of these
- Which site played a role in historical Chinese art and literature?
- Aswan High Dam
- Mount Huangshan
- Abu Simbel Temple
- Egyptian artefacts
- UNESCO launched an international campaign in ______.
- 1950
- 1959
- 1958
- 1957
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A World Heritage Site is a site determined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to have significant cultural or natural importance to humanity. As such, the sites are protected and maintained by the International World Heritage Programme which is administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, because World Heritage Sites are places that are significant culturally and naturally, they vary in type but include forests, lakes, monuments, buildings and cities. World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas. For example, Mount Huangshan in China is a site with significance to human culture because it played a role in historical Chinese art and literature. The mountain is also significant because of its physical landscape characteristics. HISTORY OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES Although the idea of protecting cultural and natural heritage sites around the world began in the early twentieth century, momentum for its actual creation was not started until the 1950s. In 1954, Egypt started plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile River. The initial plan for the dam's construction would have flooded the valley containing the Abu Simbel Temples and scores of ancient Egyptian artefacts. To protect the temples and artefacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign in 1959 that called for the dismantling and movement of the temples to higher ground. The project cost an estimated US $80 million, $40 million of which came from 50 different countries. |
B2. Briefly describe the international campaign launched by UNESCO in 1959.
B3. Make sentences using the following phrases.
- Play a role
- Scores of
B4. Rewrite the following sentences using 'not only' and 'but also'.
- World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas.
- Egypt started plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile River.
B5. How do you think can an individual conserve and protect a World Heritage Site?
