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Cenote, Mexico. Public domain Bimmah, Oman. Public domain China. Public domain Mendoza, Argentina Guatemala City Describing a place or building of a historical interest Read complete text in Wikipedia   The 65-metre-long (213 ft) main chamber of the Old Library, the Long Room, was built between 1712 and 1732 and houses 200,000 of the Library's oldest books. Initially The Long Room had a flat ceiling, shelving for books only on the lower level, and an open gallery. By the 1850s the room had to be expanded as the shelves were filled due to the fact that the Library had been given permission to obtain a free copy of every book that had been published in Ireland and Britain. In 1860, The Long Room's roof was raised to accommodate an upper gallery. The Long Room is lined with marble busts. The marble bust collection was formed when 14 busts from the famous sculptor Peter Scheemakers were acquired by the college. Many of t...

One Thousand and One Night. Public domain Can you think of a well-known story or folktale from Spain? Have you read any of the stories of The Arabian Nights ? Do you know in which language they were originally written? Why are the tales so famous? Visit this page and find out. Scheherazade is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of The Arabian Nights . She is the daughter of the King's Vizier and she tells a story for one thousand and one nights.  Why do you think she tells a story a night?   Gradable and non-gradable adjectives One way of making our stories more interesting is to use gradable and non-gradable adjectives.   Gradable adjectives can be used in comparative or superlative forms, or with adverbs such as extremely, very , quite, fairly or pretty . We can grade or show the degree of a particular quality in a person or a thing:                             ...

The Sun by NASA. Public domain What can you see in this picture? What word or words can you use to describe it?  Would you use the word "glowing", dazzling", or perhaps "harsh"? You are going to learn how to describe light in a painting. You will also learn expressions with the word "light".  Task 1. Here you have three famous paintings. Your task is to guess the name of the painting and the painter. Click on the link to check your answers. Picture 1   Picture 2  Picture 3 These are the answers: Picture 1: Jan Vermeer, Kuchenmagd Picture 2: Vincent van Gogh, Terrace of the Café on the Place du Forum in Arles Picture 3: Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas Task 2. Look at the list of adjectives to describe light. Grade them from really bright to not so bright. dim, warm, soft, bright, cold, dazzling, deep, faint, rich, harsh You can click on the Merriam-Webster dictionary to check.