Презентация на тему Where do people live under the ground

where people live under the ground is a small

town called Coober Pedy. Coober Pedy is in the Outback of south Australia.

is famous for opals. Opals are beautiful white stones.

People put opals in jewelry. The early Coober Pedy dugouts were indeed the holes that had been dug in search for opal. Later opal mining was back breaking manual labour, so the earliest Coober Pedy homes were no bigger than they absolutely needed to be.

the people in Coober Pedy are miners.
They

look for gold or special stones. Miners discovered opals in Coober Pedy in 1915.

holes under the ground. Aboriginal people laughed at them.

They called the area kupa piti. That means «white man in a hole» in their language.

out over 60 years ago, as a one room

dugout, used by the mail truck driver. Faye Nayler bought it for him, and that original room is now the kitchen.
The home you see today was built over ten years, by hand, using only picks and shovels, by Faye and two of her lady friends.

homes are not simple homes. About four thousand people

live in Coober Pedy.
About half the people live under the ground. Coober Pedy has homes, restaurants, hotels,
and churches. It is like other towns. But the people don t have a view. A new underground house with five rooms costs 25,000$. Some homes have swimming pools!

of Coober Pedy live underground for different reasons. One

reason is there are no trees.
The last tree died in 1971. People need wood to build houses.

plenty of underground cities. It's known that there are

more than a hundred of underground settlements in the region and many of them are not open for visits.

live under the ground in the Sahara Desert in

south Tunisia. It is very hot and there are no trees.

in Sahara Desert are called Berbers.
The Berbers dig deep

holes in the ground. Many houses have two or three floors, but they are simple. Air and light come through an open hole.There are about seven hundred of such holes.

years ago, people hid underground in Cappadocia, Turkey. People

still livethere today. It is a beautiful place with favourable weather.

the characteristics of Cappadocia is having plenty of underground

cities. It's known that there are more than a hundred of underground settlements in the region and many of them are not open for visits.

be used since the Bronze Age, used to be

settlements mostly in Byzantine period, doubtless. In this period, increasing invasions forced local residents to build underground cities for protection and religious purposes

future, more people will live under the ground. They

have different reasons.

a lot of people and a little land. Japan

wants to build a city under the ground. The name of the city will be Alice City. About100.000 people will live there. It will have offices,hotels, sport centers, and theatres.