Headway Digital CLIL WORKSHEETS 10 HISTORY OF ART Pre-Intermediate The Roman Baths in the City of Bath 1 2 3 What is a World Heritage Site? Italy has more World Heritage Sites than any other country. Can you name any? FOURTH EDITION The Roman Baths are open every day except for the 25th and 26th December. Opening times: open 9.00 last entry 17.00 close 18.00 The City of Bath is a World Heritage Site, famous for its Roman baths. Read the information about the baths. What do these numbers refer to? a9.00 b17.00 c10.50 d14 Admission: Adults £12.50 Senior citizens £10.50 Children (up to 16) £7.80 Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Read about the Roman temple and match the words with the correct definitions. 1 courtyard a the triangular part above the entrance to a building. 2 frieze b raised platform structure. 3 column c open space, partly or completely surrounded by buildings. 4 podium d small building or room used for Christian worship. 5 chapel e tall, vertical post, usually round and made of stone. 6 pediment fborder around the top of a room or building with pictures or carvings on it. THE ROMAN TEMPLE In 75 AD, the Romans built a large temple and baths in Bath around the only natural hot spring in Britain. More than a million litres of water a day rise out of the spring at a temperature of 46°C. The Romans believed this spring was sacred. The Classical Style temple was very unusual in Britain. It stood on a two-metrehigh podium with steps down to a courtyard below. Four columns supported a frieze and a pediment. Behind the columns, there was a large door leading to a dark room, which contained a statue of the pagan goddess, Sulis Minerva. In the second century, the Romans added small chapels on each side of the steps, which made the temple more similar to other Romano-Celtic temples in Britain. The pagan temple at Bath was not used after 391 AD because of the arrival of Christianity. It collapsed, and today only some of the stones from the pediment have survived. 4 Read the article again and answer the questions. 1 Why did the Romans build a temple and baths in Bath? 2 Where was the statue of the goddess kept? 3 What was added in the second century? 4 Why didn’t the temple survive? PORTFOLIO PROJECT Think of an example of Classical Roman architecture in Italy and write a similar brief description, with illustrations where possible. Include information about: • where • when • present day Headway Digital Fourth Edition Pre-Intermediate Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2012