Speaking

World History
(third conditional)

A. Below is a list of some important events in the last 100 years.

How would history have been different (or how would life be different now) if those
events either hadnt happened or had happened in a different way?

What could have been done to avoid tragedies?

World War II and the Holocaust

The polio vaccine
The invention of the telephone
The invention of the car
The use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Chernobyl disaster
9/11 World Trade Center attack
The sinking of the Titanic
Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon
Facebook founded in 2004
Donald Trump elected president
The Spanishs discovery of the Americas
The Mexican Revolution

What other historical events in your country could have happened differently?

B. If you could meet any historical figure, what would you say to him or her?
Below are a few ideas of historical figures:
Adolf Hitler
JFK
Julius Ceasar
Karl Marx
Napoleon
Henry Ford
Nelson Mandela
Anne Frank