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UNIDAD 8: LA PREHISTORIA
ACTIVITY 22: LEARNING ABOUT THE PAST
Christopher Columbus' portrait, painted by Alejo Fernándõ between 1505 and 1536
From: www.wikipedia.org
1. Read the following text.
“We
use the term past when talking about events that happened yesterday as
well as about something which took place as long ago as the discovery of America
(1492).
When
study the past is important to be able to tell when events happened and when one
event came before or after another. To do this we need to measure time.
The main unit of
time is the year. For example, we tell how old are by the numbers of years wich
have passed since we were born.
The
period of time most often used in studing history is the century- a perior of a
hundred years. We have lived the finish of the 20th century and we
are starting the 21th century.”
From: Focus on the Past, Gill & Macmillan, 1997
2. Copy these questions into your notebook and answer them.
1.
What is a century?
2.
In what century are the following dates: 2, 155, 1492, 2006.
2.
In what century are the following dates: 2, 155, 1492, 2006.
3. Read the text. We
record all events in history from the birth of Jesus Christ. The years before
the birth of Christ are followed by the letters BC (before Christ). The years
after the birth of Christ use the letters AD (Anno Domini- The Year of
Our Lord). For
example, the year 90 AD is in the first century after the birth of Christ, the
year 190 AD is in the second century and the year 1990 AD is in the twentieth
century. 200
BC 101
BC 100 BC
1 BC 1 AD
100 AD 101AD
200 AD _______½____________½______________½________________½________________!
s.II BC.
s. I BC.
s. I A.D.
s. II A.D. 4.
Write down the following dates. a)
200 BC b)
156 AD c)
2006 AD d)
1544 BC e)
4000 BC f)
5536 BC If
you are not able to do the exercise 4 visit the follow kink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_name_numbers_in_English Index |
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