The Forbidden City: 9,000 Rooms and One Emperor

All levels48 minLandmarksLesson 2 of 6 · Outline

Aims

For almost 500 years, ordinary people could not go in. Now millions do. Past tenses and opinions for B1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 161-word news story: A city inside a city, closed for 500 years

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    7 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Behind the gate

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Rules and places

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: From power to tickets

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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