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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity- Great Wall of China

Beijing has it will open two new of the Great Wall of China. This is because the four parts that are currently open to are always overcrowded, at weekends and on holidays. More and more are going to China to see the Great Wall. Some of them the closed sections of the ancient structure, which the stone and brickwork. Beijing has also building a Great Wall database, which will be open to the .

The Great Wall of China is frequently of the list of world attractions want to visit. Work started on it in 500BC to China’s northern . The Xinhua news agency recently reported that the wall is 21,196 km . A 2009 study said it was 8,850km long. It is still the world’s manmade structure. Only eight per cent of the wall is standing, although of it around Beijing is still in condition. It became a UNESCO world heritage in 1987.