PISA

1- Answer these questions about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You can look at these sites: softschools, leaningtowerofpisa, ask.com

    1- Why does the tower lean?

    2- What's the Italian name for  Leaning Tower?

    3- How many years did the Tower of Pisa take to build?

    4- What floor were they making when the Tower begin to lean?

    5- Why was the construction of the Tower stopped twice?

    6- What was the name of the architect?

    7- Who used the Tower as an observation post?

    8- What years was the tower closed to the public?

2- A recommended walk around Pisa: create a Google map following the instructions from this web page. Share the map with your teacher.

3- Things to do in Pisa: what are Pisa's 5 top attractions? You can look at these sites: virtualtourist, About.com, aboutpisa.info, world-guides.com lonelyplanet.com

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4- Write the people's opinion about Pisa, good (pro) and bad (con). Read at least the reviews of 20 people (10 positive, 10 negative). Use this webpage. Then write a summary:

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