World Heritage – Textbook Questions and Answers | Class 10 English

Pair up and answer: (a) Do you like to travel? (b) Where have you travelled? (c) Have you heard about the wonders of the world? (d) Have you heard about UNESCO? (e) What does UNESCO stand for? (f) What is meant by heritage? (g) Do you know of any heritage building in your own city?

What is the difference between (a) World Heritage and (b) Cultural Heritage?

What do World Heritage Sites include?

What significant aspects should a World Heritage Site have?

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’?

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

What does the World Heritage Committee consist of?

What is the World Heritage Committee responsible for?

Who makes recommendations to the World Heritage Committee?

What is Peru’s Machu Picchu an example of?

What do heritage sites in the world include?

What kind of sites are protected and maintained by the International World Heritage Programme?

How many World Heritage Sites are there around the world?

What is the role of the World Heritage Committee?

What is the tenure of the World Heritage Committee?

What are our duties towards the preservation/conservation of any historical site?

Why should we preserve the World Heritage Sites?

What is the role of World Heritage Sites in developing tourism in any country?

Complete the table showing the year, establishment and role: 1954, 1959, 1965, 1968, 1972.

Complete the web giving reasons why World Heritage Sites are in danger. (One is given: war.)

Mount Huangshan is situated in ____.

The famous dam situated in Egypt on the River Nile is ____.

The conference on Human Environment was held at ____.

The highest number of World Heritage Sites are located in ____.

____ can delete/exclude a site from the World Heritage list.

The tenure of the World Heritage Committee is ____ years.

Match the pairs to define different roles of World Heritage Sites: (i) Identify cultural and natural sites (ii) Identify sites of (iii) Identify sites that represent (iv) UNESCO seeks to (v) World Heritage Sites should have (vi) World Heritage Sites should (vii) World Heritage Sites serve as (viii) World Heritage Sites should ensure (ix) It should at large develop; (a) green, local based, stable and decent jobs (b) of outstanding universal value across countries (c) preserve outstanding sites and natural resources (d) tourism (e) an asset for economic development and investment (f) protect these sites (g) best examples of world’s cultural and/or natural heritage (h) special importance for everyone (i) relevant development plan policies.

Choose the correct meaning: (a) determine: think over / decide / ask for / look over (b) monument: statue / pillar / memorial / fort (c) significant: clever / effective / systematic / important (d) disaster: problem / incident / calamity / accident.

Find from the text at least 8 words related to cultural heritage and make a word register in alphabetical order.

Complete the information: (a) Preservation of any historical site – duties (two) (b) Preserving World Heritage Sites – reasons (two) (c) Promoting tourism – role (two).

Write a report on any tourist place/historical place/World Heritage Site you recently visited, using: title, place/location, background/history, features, security policies, sign boards and discipline, overall scenario.

Use ‘not only ... but also’: (a) UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments initiated a draft convention ... (b) The state parties are responsible for identifying and nominating new sites. (c) Opera House in Australia and the Historic Center of Vienna in Austria are cultural sites of World Heritage. (d) World Heritage Sites can also be a combination of both cultural and natural areas.

Rewrite replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘no sooner ... than’: (a) As soon as the Bill is passed, it will become an Act. (b) As soon as the thief escaped, the family informed the police. (c) As soon as you have finished, you can submit your answer-papers. (d) As soon as they can manage, they should change their house. (e) As soon as the bell rings, the School Assembly will start.

Identify whether the sentences are simple, complex or compound: (1) They vary in type but they include forests, monuments etc. (2) The mountain is significant because of its characteristics. (3) To protect the temples and artefacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign. (4) If the site meets with this criteria, it can be inscribed on the World Heritage List. (5) There are 890 World Heritage Sites that are located in 148 countries. (6) The project cost about US $80 million and $40 million came from 50 different countries.

Transfer these points on ways to preserve World Heritage Sites into a small paragraph and suggest a title: practical conservation for posterity; human/animal trespassing to be prohibited; monitored/controlled/restricted access; threat of local administrative negligence to be removed.

Write the Don’ts for each Do towards protection of a historical site: (i) Obey rules and regulations. (ii) Maintain discipline and order. (iii) Maintain cleanliness. (iv) Use dustbins and garbage bags. (v) Observe silence. (vi) Maintain environmental safety. (vii) Protect our country’s heritage.

Complete the flow chart to show how a site becomes a World Heritage Site, starting with ‘Take an inventory’, using the options: 1. Inclusion of the site from the tentative list to the nomination file. 2. Name inscribed on the World Heritage List after meeting the criteria. 3. Inclusion of the site in a tentative list after an inventory. 4. Decision of the World Heritage Committee after review of the nominated file. 5. A review of the file by the advisory bodies.