Eventos histricos

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en el mundo y en mi pas

Can you imagine life in the past? What was life like? How did everyday life become as it is today?
A couple of centuries ago telephone didnt exist, people didnt have a TV. Because there was no
electricity, families used candles to light their houses. Travelers took several days or even months to
go from one place to another and people died of chickenpox. Life was different!
How did things change? Human curiosity and human needs brought about changes. Many great
inventions took place during 19th and 20th centuries: light bulbs, the first telephone and TV, the first
aircraft and gasoline cars, the first computer and Internet. These findings were the base of inventions
that made our lives easier.

Vocabulary

Ingls

Ingls

Century

Siglo

Brought about

Trajo

Couple

Par

Took place

Ocurri

Travelers

Viajeros

Findings

Descubrimientos

Chickenpox

Varicela

Aircraft

Aeronave

Several

Varios

Eventos importantes en el mundo.

Siglos XIX y XX
En la historia de la humanidad sucedieron acontecimientos de gran importancia que cambiaron el
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mundo. Observa las oraciones del cuadro

History of scientific events

in 19th and 20th centuries
Century

19th

20th

Event

Exact year

Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.

1838

Alexander Graham Bell improved telephone.

1876

Thomas Alva Edison created the lightbulb.

1879

John L. Baird invented television.

1885

Augusto and Louis Lumiere popularized cinema.

1889

Marie Curie studied radioactivity and found polonium.

1898

The Wright brothers made the first flight in an aircraft.

1903

Albert Einstein developed the relativity theory.

1915

Karl Benz built the first gasoline car.

1925

Alexander Fleming found penicillin.

1928

Konrad Zuse created the first computer.

1941

Tim Burtons-Lee brougth us the World Wide Web.

1989

Escribe los verbos en pasado en la siguiente tabla y busca su signi icado en el diccionario.
Verbos que terminan en -ed

Significado

Otros verbos

Significado

Eventos importantes en Mxico.

Siglo XX
En Mxico, qu eventos histricos sucedieron en el siglo XX? A continuacin, se mencionan algunos:
Mexican Revolution started in 1910.
Lzaro Crdenas announced the nationalization of Mexicos
petroleum reserves on March 21st, 1938.

The 20th century.

8 events in
Mexico's history

Vasconcelos created the Ministry of Public Education on October

12th, 1921.
Women got political participation rights on October 17th 1953..
Students began a protest towards democracy and the
goberment repressed the meeting in October 2 nd, 1968.
In 1985 society experienced an 8.1 earthquake that damaged
Mexico City.
After the devaluation of the peso in December 1994, Mexico fell
into a financial crisis.

Pasado simple

Verbos regulares

Se usa el pasado simple para hablar de situaciones o eventos ocurridos y concluidos en el pasado.
Algunos verbos en pasado son regulares y terminan en ed
Verbs ending in consonant ed, invent + ed = invented
Verbs ending in e, add -d change + d = changed
Verbs ending in consonant + y, use ied study = studied

Verbos irregulares
Los verbos irregulares en pasado simple se
escriben de forma distinta. Algunos ejemplos son:

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Verbo irregular

Pasado simple

Significado en espaol

do

did

hacer

have

had

tener

be

was / were

ser/estar

build

built

construir

bring

brought

llevar/traer

become

became

convertirse

begin

began

empezar

buy

bought

comprar

catch

caught

atrapar

choose

chose

escoger/elegir

come

came

venir

drink

drank

beber

drive

drove

conducir

eat

ate

comer

find

found

encontrar

forget

forgot

olvidar

get

got

tomar/recibir

give

gave

dar

go

went

ir

know

knew

saber/conocer

lose

lost

perder

make

made

hacer

run

ran

correr

see

saw

ver

sleep

slept

dormir

speak

spoke

hablar

take

took

tomar

teach

taught

ensear

tell

told

contar/decir

think

thought

pensar

win

won

ganar

write

wrote

escribir

Para conocer un poco ms acerca de este tema y la pronunciacin de los verbos regulares en
ingls en pasado simple, consulta el video de YouTube Cmo pronunciar los verbos regulares del
pasado simple en ingls. Tambin puedes visitar el sitio Aprende ingls sila