Unit 9 Life in the Past

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Vocabulary
A. Listen to part of a television documentary and circle each word
when you hear it.

tools building hairbrushes farming

gambling weapons hunting dice
pipes combs glass beads
order in which they appear
1.tools 6.hairbrushes 11.dice
2.weapons 7.combs
3.farming 8.glass beads
4.hunting 9.pipes
5.building 10.gambling

A. Complete the sentences with words from the box.

1.Less than 500 years ago, many people used simple tools and weapons
to make their own farming
hunting and building.
2. Women used simple hairbrushes and combs made from wood or
bone.
3. Men who used to smoke tobacco in pipes .
4. glass beads were worn as jewelry.
5. gambling was popular; men would play cards and roll dice in games
of chance.

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A. Complete each sentence with used to or would. (Both ways are
possible).

Six Indian Innovations

chewing gums... The Aztecs used to chew chicle, a latex from the
sapodilla tree and the key ingredient in modern chewing gum.

Popcorn... Native Americans made the first popcorn. Some Indians

would put a stick through a dried ear of corn and hold it over the fire.
Parkas... Today’s ski jackets are similar to hooded coats. Inuit women
Used To make from layers of skins that trapped air for greater
insulation.

Sunglasses… The Inuit also Used To carve their version of sunglasses

from walrus tusks with narrow slits for people to look through .

Chocolate... The Maya created the first chocolate from cacao beans. The
Mayan, Toltec, and Aztec Indians Used To drink a bitter, unsweetened
mixture. sugar was added later to suit European tastes.

Dental care... North American Indian Would scrub ,the ragged ends of
sticks while the Aztec Indians applied salt and charcoal to their teeth.

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Listening
A. What did European colonists take to the New World? Check the
items you think might have been found in a recent archaeological dig.
Add your own ideas.

tools for farming

pipes for smoking tobacco
glass beads
hairbrushes and combs
iron nails for building
weapons
my ideas.
silver toothpick
dice for glamming

A. Listen again and answer the questions.

1. What did archaeologists NOT use to know about the Jamestown

Colony? They didn’t use clothes.

2. Why did some of the colonists bring dice to the Jamestown Colony?
Some colonists brought dice for climbing.

3. What kinds of clothes did the archaeologists find?

They didn’t find clothes.
4. When was tobacco introduced to Europe?
Tabaco Was introduced to Europe in the 1500s.

5. What did the colonists bring that the Indians especially valued?
They brought metal tools and weapons

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B. Complete the sentences with your own information. Then read the
sentences aloud to a partner. Use the reduced form YOU-sta.

1. When I was younger, I used to

Play video games
2. As a child, I used to want money for
Buying candys
3. In my country, people used to
Go out every weekend
4. Before the Internet was invented, people used to.
get out for share with friends
5. In my last English class, we used to
Make sentences in English with certain verbs.

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Language Expansion: Separable phrasal verbs

give up, bring up, help out, switch on, keep away, put on.

A. Fill in the blank with the phrasal verb from the box that is closest in
meaning to the verb in parentheses. Use the correct form of the verb.
Use your dictionary to help you.

Hi, my name is Susie, and I live in the Nunavut Territory in Canada. Here
in Nunavut, life hasn't changed as much as it has in other places. It's true—
nowadays, we can switch on (start) the furnace when it gets cold, and
we use modern rifles to keep away (repel) the polar bears, but we
haven’t give up (relinquish) other things. We bring up (raise) our
children in the land our people have lived in for thousands of years. we
teach them to put on (don) our traditional clothing to stay warm in the
winter, and we teach them to always, help out (aid) their family and their
community. Those things will never change.

A. Work with a partner to complete the sentences.

1. I hope I never have to give my Project up.
2. When I get home, I usually switch the tv on.
3. Parents work hard to bring their children up.
4. In stories, garlic can keep vampires away.
5. I always try to help my mom out.
6. When I get dressed, I never forget to put my cap on.