Stonehenge: What We Still Do Not Know

All levels48 minLandmarksLesson 6 of 6 · Outline

Aims

Five thousand years old, aligned with the solstices, and still refusing to explain itself. A lesson about the limits of knowing, for C1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 226-word news story: The most studied ruin in Britain, and still nobody can tell you what it was for

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    7 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The evidence and the story

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Living with not knowing

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Five thousand years from now

    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.

alignmentcarpentrygatheringconjectureretrieveread intostand as

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