Liceo Andrés Bello A-94

Unidad Técnica Pedagógica

Departamento de Inglés
Srta. Carmen Torrealba
Curso: NM 1

ENGLISH HANDOUT READING COMPREHENSION

PREHISTORIC TIMES STORIES
Name
Grade
Date
Objetivos:
1 –Comprender un texto narrativo a nivel descriptivo.
2 -Comprender significado de palabras a través del contexto.

Habilidades:
1 – Identificar.
2 – Aplicar.

3 _ Relacionar.

VOCABULARY

hunters= stayed= pillow=

food= worked= for a while=
hunted= left= lay down=
killed= tell= meet=
travel= cooking= lake=
wagon= angry= found=
carts= find= stick=
spears= over there= tied=
clubs= behind= rolled=
carry= bushes= hill=
came out= heard= easy=
wife= wanted= push=
busy= walked= heavy=
hitting= crawl= beach=
stones= chase= ran up=
need= watch= pull=
wheel= take care= saw=
asked= swimming= enough=
see= cry= proud=
dead= sleepy= clever=
bears= crib= fished=
left= sat= alone=
none= held= peaceful=
help= several= river=
wait= wood= birds=
later= ground= clouds=
ugly= thought= caught=
went= built= huge=
inside= fur= frightened=
ate= rug= picked up=
called= understand= tell=
together= there weren` t= great=
awful= seldom= strange=
side= learn= started=
afraid= wrote= many=
friendly= never= ago=
too= words=
long= walls=
soon= caves=
rarely= read=

READING COMPREHENSION

Pay attention to:

1.-Who are the main characters?

2.-Which is the main theme in the stories?

3.-Which are the characters` problems?

4.-How do they solve those problems?

5.-What are the implications nowadays?

6.-Do you think these are real stories or not? Why?

7.-Think of the gender role.

 Liceo Andrés Bello A-94
Unidad Técnica Pedagógica
Departamento de Inglés
Srta. Carmen Torrealba
Curso: NM 1

ENGLISH HANDOUT READING COMPREHENSION

PREHISTORIC TIMES STORIES
Name
Grade
Date

PREHISTORIC TIMES STORIES

In prehistoric times, men were hunters. They had to find food for their families. They
looked for berries and fruit and they hunted and killed animals. When there weren` t any
berries or fruit , the families had to travel to a new place. Theuy didn` t have any
wagons or carts. The men carried only their spears and clubs, so the women had to carry
all of their family` s possessions.

One moring, a man came out of his cave. His wife was very busy. She was hitting a
large rock. Og said, “What are you doing? Where` s my breakfast?”

“Your breakfast is on the rock in the kitchen,” the woman answered, “There` s a bowl of
milk and a piece of lion steak.”

“You didn` t answer my first question, “ he said. “What are you doing?”

Ona hit the big stone again. Then she said, “I` m inventing the wheel.”

“Why do we need a wheel?” he asked.

Ona said, “Doo you see that dead elephant in the center of the village? Somebody has to
move it. UYou and the rest of the men are going to hunt bears today. I can` t lift it and
none of the women can help me. So we` re going to use the wheel.”

“Why don` t you wait until later? I` ll move it for you.” Og said.

“It` s ugly. We don` t want to look at it all day,” Ona said. “No we`ll move it.”

The man went inside the cave and ate his breakfast. The woman stayed outside and
worked on the wheel.

Then the man left with the other hunters. He didn` t tell them about Ona`s wheel.
When the hunter came home, the women and children were cooking. The dead elephant
wasn` t there.

One of the hunters said, “Our enemies came and took our elephant!” The other men
were angry. They said, “Let` s find them!”
Ona stopped them. She said, “Our enemies didn` t take the elephant. It` s over there,
behind those bushes.”

The men asked, “Who moved it?

“We did,” said all the women. “Ona invented the wheel today.”

The people in other villages heard about the wheel. Everybody wanted one. Soon Ona
was making wheels every day. But she had a problem. Her youngest child was only one
year old. He couldn` t walk, but he could crawl. Ona had to stop her work and chase
him. Finally, she called her oldest daughter, Aba. She said, “Please watch your brother, I
can` t take care of him and make wheels, too.”

Aba wasn` t very happy. Her friends were planning to go swimming, and she wanted to
go with them. The baby started to cry. He was sleepy, so Aba put him into his crib in
the cave. But he didn` t want to stay there. Aba sat on a big flat rock and held him.
There were several large pieces of wood on the ground. Aba looked at them for a few
minutes, and then she thought of a solution to the problem.

She built a box for the baby. She put a fur rug and a soft pillow in it. Then she put the
baby in the box and gave him some of his toys. He liked the box and was very happy in
it. He played for a while, and then he lay down and went to sleep.

Aba wanted to meet her friends at the lake, but the box was too big to carry. She found a
long stick and put it between two wheels. She tied the box on the stick. Then she rolled
her new cart down the hill to the lake. It was easy!

Later, Aba tried to push the box up the hill, but it was too heavy to push. She couldn` t
do it. Then she had a good idea. There were three dogs on the beach. She called the
biggest one, Hugo, and tied him to the cart. Then she run up the hill and called him
again. He pulled the cart up to her.!

When the other people in the village saw Aba` s invention, they thought it was
wonderful. Soon every family had a cart. Some of the carts had four wheels and were
big enough to carry all of a family` s possessions.

Og and Ona were proud of her clever daughter.

Og usually hunted and fished with the other men in the village, but sometimes he liked
to go fishing alone. Everything was peaceful near the river, and Og liked to listen to the
birds and watch the clouds.

One morning, Og caught a lot of fish. He was getting ready to go home when he saw a
huge gray animal with a long nose and big ears on the other side of the river. It wasn` t
moving, but it was looking at Og. Og was frightened. He picked up his fish and ran.

He ran all the way through the dark forest to the village. He called all the men and the
women of the village to his cave. When they were all together he said, “I` ve just seen a
terrible thing near the river!”. Everybody asked, “What, Og? What terrible thing did you
see?”. Og answered, “Oh, it was awful!. There was a huge gray animal with a long nose
and big ears! It was on the other side of the river! And it was looking at me!”.
One of the women said, “Oh, you saw the elephant! You didn` t have to be afraid! It is a
very friendly animal! It loves people!”.
Og said, “What did you call it? An elephant? Why did you call it an elephant? It` s a
huge gray animal with a long nose and big ears!”.

The woman said, “Well, I invented that name for it. Huge- gray-animal-with-a–long-
nose-and-big-ears is too long to say!”

Og and the other people in the village thought the woman` s idea was clever. Soon
everybody was inventing names for animals and things.

At the same time, people in other places were naming things, too. Sometimes the
names were the same, but sometimes they were different. The people in Og` s village
called the little-animal-with-the-funny-face-and-the-long-tail a “monkey”. But in other
village, the people called it “mono”. And people in other villages called it “Affe”.

People from one place could rarely understand the language in another place. There
weren` t any books or teachers, and people seldom learned a second language.

These prehistoric people never wrote their words, but they painted pictures on the walls
of their caves. Some of their cave paintings still exist in caves in France. Everybody
can read them. They tell of great hunters and strange animals.

Languages started many years ago with only one word. Today there are about 3.000
languages in use in the world!