Listen and Consider

- For the next few weeks you will travel back in time to learn about :
How people lived thousands of years ago ie how people lived in Ancient Times
- So the word ancient means very very old /or long, long ago.
- Thousands years ago, people lived differently from the way we do today, I’ll name some items and tell me if
people of ancient times had.

electricity – cities - religion - cars - boats – system of government – computers – system of writing –

economy and job specialization- farming – trade – airplanes – taxes.

Yes, theyhad No, theyhadn’t

Cities- religion – system of writing – economy and job Electricity –cars – computers – airplanes
specialization - …boats

So what do you think learners

In ancient times groups of people collectively helped to foster all these features, and build ancient civilizations

religion system of writing

job specialization/trade/farming

CIVILIZATION

system of government – cities – architecture system of government

Let’shere it :

1. What ancient civilizations are represented in the map?

2. Which of the following civilizations do you think is the oldest?
a. Ancient Greek civilization
b. Ancient Egyptian civilization
c. Sumerian civilization
d. Indus Valley civilization
d. Chinese civilization

Listen and do
1. Listen to the radio interview about ancient civilizations and check your answer to question 2

2.Listen again to the radio interview and order the ancient civilizations mentioned in
question 2 (in Let’s think about it) chronologically using the chart below.

1 2 3 4 5
3. Reorder the questions in column A according to the answers in column B to get a coherent interview.

A B
1. What about what is known as Ancient
Greek civilization?
2. When and where did it start?
3. Why did ancient civilizations collapse?
4. How many civilizations has the world
known so far?
5. Which one is the world’s earliest
civilization?
a. Well, according to some historians the
world has known 26 or 27 civilizations so
far.
b. The world’s earliest civilization is
probably the Sumerian civilization.
c. It started in Mesopotamia some 5,500
years ago.
d. Well, ancient Greek civilization started in
the Island of Crete some 4,000 years ago
and flourished until approximately 150 B.C.
e. Most ancient civilizations fell into ruins
because of wars, internal conflicts ,
invasions, epidemics or sudden
environmental changes.