Balbharati solutions for My English Coursebook 10 Standard SSC Maharashtra State Board chapter 2.6 - World Heritage [Latest edition]

I can talk about the world:-
Form groups of 6 to 8 students. Each group should select any one Continent and share the following information about each.

1. Important cities
2. Sight-seeing places of tourist interest 
3. Food speciality-cuisine
4. Wild life
5. Different types of region and vegetation.
6. Human life

Now each group representative from the previously formed groups, should narrate the information to the class, using proper attractive sentences.

Prepare a Travel Brochure or Leaflet of your native place or any town/historical place/hill station to attract tourists using the points below.

Write the importance of the years given below, with reference to World Heritage Sites.

The country where Mount Huangshan is situated ____________

The famous dam in Egypt on River Nile ____________

The place where the conference based on Human Environment was held __________________.

The country in which the highest number of World Heritage Sites are __________________.

The body which can exclude a site from World Heritage list ____________

The World Heritage Sites include __________________.

There are around ____________ World Heritage Sites in the world.

The Role of World Heritage Committee is 

The tenure of World Heritage Committee is ____________.

We can get more information about World Heritage Sites from it __________________.

Complete the following Web by giving reasons why World Heritage Sites are in danger.

What are our duties towards preservation of any historical site?

Why should we preserve the World Heritage Sites?

What is the role of World Heritage Sites in promoting tourism in any country?

Read the following duties towards preservation of any historical site and make sentences about each of our duties.

• Obey rules and regulations-Visitors must obey the rules and regulations, displayed at the Entrance
• Maintain discipline and order
• Maintain cleanliness
• Use dustbins and garbage bags
• Observe silence
• Maintain environmental safety
• Protect our country’s history/heritage.

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.

1. Inclusion of the name of a site from the tentative list to the nomination file. 
2. Name of the site is inscribed on the World Heritage list after meeting the criteria. 
3. Inclusion of the name of site for the nomination in a tentative list after an inventory in the country or the state.
4. Decision of the World Heritate Committee after review of the nominated file.
5. A review of the file included by the advisory bodies.

Match the pairs to define different roles of the World Heritage Sites.

Do you know the difference between World heritage and Cultural heritage?

Following are the ways to preserve ‘World Heritage Sites.’ Transfer these points into a small paragraph. Suggest a suitable title.

1. Practical conservation of posterity
2. Human/animal trespassing
3. Unmonitored/uncontrolled/unrestricted access
4. Threat of local administrative negligence

Find from the text minimun 8 words related to cultural heritage and make a word register. Arrange them in alphabetical order.

Look at the word and their meaning. select the correct alternatives.

determine

Look at the word and their meaning. select the correct alternative.

monument

Look at the word and their meaning. Underline the correct alternatives.

significant

Look at the word and their meaning. Underline the correct alternatives.

disaster

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

UNESCO and the International Council on monuments initiated a draft convention to create an international organisation responsible for protecting cultural heritage.

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

The state parties are responsible for identifying and nominating new sites.

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

Opera House in Australia and the Historic Center of Vienna in Austria are cultural sites of World Heritage.

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

World Heritage Sites can be a combination of both cultural and natural areas

Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.

To protect the temples and artifacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’.

As soon as the Bill is passed, it will become an Act.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’.

As soon as the thief escaped, the family informed the police.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’

As soon as you have finished, you can submit your answer- papers.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’.

As soon as they can manage, they should change their house.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than ’

As soon as the bell will ring, the School Assembly will start

Prepare a ‘tourism leaflet’ on any one of the following.

1. Your Home Town
2. A Historical Place
3. A Place of Natural Beauty
4. A Place of Pilgrimage

Make a list of sites from our State that are included in the World Heritage Sites. Try to visit one of them. Write the importance of that World Heritage Site. Also, write your impression of it in your notebook.