The night-walkers of Uganda

Now read your sentences to your partner. Try to ask and answer further questions to keep the
conversation going.
Webquest
6
Go to 
www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2007/sep/06/pavarotti?picture=330690212
to see photos of Pavarotti’s 
life. You can also watch videos and listen to him singing by going to 
www.youtube.com
and writing Pavarotti in the 
search box.
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Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text.
mine
vault
gem 
 
rare 
 
amazing 
rough
carat
colourless 
saddle
gift
1. A ____________ is a beautiful, expensive stone that people use to make jewellery.
2. A ____________ is a leather seat you put on a horse when you ride it.
3. A ____________ is a large hole or tunnel in the ground from which people take gold, coal, diamonds etc.
4. A ____________ is something you give to someone as a present.
5. A ____________ is a strongly protected room in a bank for money, gold and other valuables.
6. If something is ____________, it has no colour at all.
7. If something is ____________, you do not often see or find it.
8. A ____________ is a unit of weight for measuring gold and precious stones.
9. If something is ____________, it is very, very surprising.
10. If a diamond is in a ____________ state, no-one has cut or finished it.
Miners unearth world’s biggest diamond
Level 1
Elementary
Key words
1
Find the information
2
Look in the text and find this information as quickly as possible.
1. How much will the new diamond cost?
2. When was the Golden Jubilee diamond found?
3. How much did the cut Cartier diamond weigh?
4. Where was the Cullinan diamond found?
5. How many gems were cut from the Cullinan diamond?
6. When did the British take the Koh-i-noor diamond to London?