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SI 5 Read the text and choose the correct answers.

My Blog
ÿ My travels ÿ India ÿ India

Our journey around the ÿ beautiful Indian / This amazing 10pink fifteen-metre / fifteen-
Indian beautiful state of Rajasthan continues! metre pink structure has 953 small windows
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We were already awake / outdoor at five o'clock and it is very / rather popular with
photographers. We certainly weren't the
and we spent an interesting / interested
12alone/ only tourists there, even at six
morning exploring Jaipur, the 3famous capital /
capital famous city of Rajasthan. o'clock in the morning!
The local buses were 4quite / very busy and it
would have been impossible to get a seat, so we

decided to hire 5an electric / an electric small
rickshaw. Our driver was 6rather/ very friendly,
and gave us lots of fascinating / fascinated
facts about the city.

Jaipur is full of 8elegant pink / pink elegant
buildings, and people often call it the Pink City.
One of these buildings is the Eighteenth-
century grand / grand eighteenth-century
palace, the Hawa Mahal.

Write a description of a place.Includeinformationabout the topics
below and lots of adjectives. Don't write the name of the place!

the buildings a special building or park the people the transport
positive points one or two negative points

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WH5RE IS IT?
A bgflw.ti.fUl green river runs through this very

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white buildings along the river bavdzs. 2
There is a lullwith anold castie on the top and ... 3

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Can they identifythe place? 9
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itlún-te this city is Prague.
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very sm,all capitalcity'. 13
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oh yes. it could be Ljubljana. yes, Ithin\z it is. 15
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