Balbharati solutions for इंग्लिश कोर्सबुक कक्षा १० महाराष्ट्र राज्य बोर्ड 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.

What significant aspects should a world heritage site have?

What do heritage sites in the world include?

Why did UNESCO launch an international campaign in 1959?

Why did a White House Conference in the United States call for a ‘World Heritage Trust’?

What does the World Heritage Committee consist of?

What is the World Heritage Committee responsible for?

When was the convention concerning the protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted and by whom?

Who makes recommendations to the World Heritage Committee?

What is the Peru’s Machu Picchu example of?

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

Name the following.

The country where Mount Huangshan is situated.

Name the following.

The famous dam in Egypt on River Nile.

Name the following.

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

Name the following.

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

Name the following.

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 duty towards preservation of any historical site and make sentence about 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?

Refer to a dictionary/encyclopaedia/reference books/website/google search to get the detailed meaning.

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

• Practical conservation of posterity
• Human/animal trespassing
• Unmonitored/uncontrolled/unrestricted access
• Threat of local administrative negligence

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

Look at the word and its meaning. Select the correct alternative.

determine

Look at the word and its meaning. Select the correct alternative.

monument

Look at the word and its meaning. Select the correct alternative.

significant

Look at the word and its meaning. Select the correct alternative.

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.

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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 artefacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign.

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’ (Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)

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

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’
(Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)

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

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’
(Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)

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

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’
(Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)

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

Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’
(Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)

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

Write a ‘tourism leaflet’ on the following:

Your home town

Make use of the following points:

1. How to reach there?
2. Accommodation facilities
3. What to see and visit?/Attractions of the place
4. Places of interest nearby
5. Best time to visit
6. Shopping Attractions
   Add your own points.

Write a ‘tourism leaflet’ on the following:

A historical place

Make use of the following points:

1. How to reach there?
2. Accommodation facilities
3. What to see and visit?/Attractions of the place
4. Places of interest nearby
5. Best time to visit
6. Shopping Attractions
   Add your own points.

Write a ‘tourism leaflet’ on the following:

A place of natural beauty

Make use of the following points:

1. How to reach there?
2. Accommodation facilities
3. What to see and visit?/Attractions of the place
4. Places of interest nearby
5. Best time to visit
6. Shopping Attractions
   Add your own points.

Write a ‘tourism leaflet’ on the following:

A place of pilgrimage

Make use of the following points:

1. How to reach there?
2. Accommodation facilities
3. What to see and visit?/Attractions of the place
4. Places of interest nearby
5. Best time to visit
6. Shopping Attractions
   Add your own points.

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.