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Getting started Take 1 minute to talk about your estimated measurement of the Great Wall of China! Life is beautiful Level 5 Unit 6 The Biggest and The Best Lesson 3 Distances and Measurements Oral practice China has the longest wall in the world! But do you know How long it is? • It is approximately . . . • . . . twice the length of . . . 5,500 miles long Oral practice Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake on earth. How _____ is it? • Perhaps it is . . . • Maybe, more or less . . . 1,637 meters (5,371 feet) deep Oral practice Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world’s tallest artificial structure. Can you imagine how _____ it is? • Its height is nearly. . . • Probably it is as high as. . . 829.8 m (2,722 ft) tall Oral practice The official highest recorded temperature in the world is at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California, USA. __________ is it in summer? Ex. It gets up to about . . . 56.7 °C (134 F) Oral practice The lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth is at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica. __________ is it in winter? Ex. It goes down about . . . −89.2 °C(−128.6 °F) Discussion Albert Einstein said, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. Thats relativity.” Is our understanding of distance and sizes in the universe objec