Name _______________________________

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Vocabulary
1 Read the definitions of historical events and write the correct noun next to each definition. The first letter
of each noun is given.
1 the process of finding a place, information, or object, usually for the first time d_______________
2 a fight between countries w_______________
3 a new creation or design i_______________
4 when you travel to a new place to learn something about it e_______________
5 the action of building something c_______________
6 the action of exchanging, buying, or selling things t_______________

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2 Complete the online tourist review with the adjective or adverb form of the words below.
bad good heavy perfect quick slow

Reviewed 3 days ago

 Not so great pyramid!

I recently visited the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo. It was amazing but the tour didn’t go so 1 _____________.
The guide spoke English very 2 _____________ and we couldn’t understand him. There were too many tourists
inside the pyramid and everyone was moving so 3 _____________ – we kept stopping and waiting for people to
come out. It was also very dark and someone pushed me and I fell 4 ____________ against the wall and it
really hurt!
The tour of the museum was better. The guide spoke English 5 _____________ and answered all of our questions.
But she took us around the exhibition too 6 _____________ and we didn’t have time to see everything that we
wanted to. The Sound and Light show was amazing. That was probably the best part!

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3 Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
1 There’s a blue monument / plaque on the front of my aunt’s house. A famous engineer was born there.
2 I’m reading the biography / interview of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She was so cool!
3 The opening times of the gallery are in the tour / brochure.
4 I’ve just downloaded an augmented census / reality app onto my phone.
5 There’s a plaque / statue of Nelson Mandela in our city.

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4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in parentheses. Then answer the questions
with your own ideas. Write full sentences.
1 When was the last time you acted _______________? (brave)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2 What can you do _______________? (perfect)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3 Name one thing you always do _______________. (careful)
_______________________________________________________________________________________

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Grammar
1 Complete the dialogue with the verb in parentheses and the correct form of used to.
1
Manuel ________________________________________________ (your grandparents / grow) their own
vegetables when they were younger?
2
Sandra Yes, __________________________. They grew most of their own food.
3
Manuel ___________________________________________ farm animals too? (they / have)
4 5
Sandra No, __________________________. But my grandpa ____________________________ (collect)
wild berries and make all kinds of jam.
Manuel Delicious!
6
Sandra And they ___________________________________________ (not / throw away) any food. Not like
nowadays! They always made a meal with it the next day. It was much better.

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2 Choose the correct verb forms to complete the sentences.

1 I found an interesting object while I walked / was walking / had walked on the beach.
2 In 1971, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson had sent / sent / was sending the first email – to himself!
3 She was angry because she missed / had missed / was missing the train and needed to get a taxi.
4 He was writing / had written / wrote an interesting blog post last week about his trip to India.
5 You probably dropped your phone when you ran / were running / had run in the park.

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3 Complete the short biography of Van Gogh with the simple past, past continuous, or past perfect form
of the verbs in parentheses.

When the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh 1 ____________ (die) in 1890, he 2 ________________________ (paint)
more than 2,000 works of art, but he 3 __________________________ (sell) only one. In fact, while he
4
__________________________ (live), he 5 __________________________ (not / make) any money from his art
and was very poor. A hundred years after his death, in 1990, someone 6 ________________ (buy) one of his
portraits of Dr. Gachet for $82.5 million. Van Gogh is now considered to be one of the world’s greatest artists.

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4 Answer the questions so they are true for you. Write full sentences.
1 What were you doing this time last year?
___________________________________________________________________________________
2 What did you use to play when you were a small child?
___________________________________________________________________________________
3 Who did you hang out with on weekends?
___________________________________________________________________________________

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Listening
1 3.02 Listen to a history teacher talking to her class about museums. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
1 The students won’t go on school trips to visit different museums during the year. T / F
2 Google Arts and Culture is a new museum. T / F
3 The students’ project is to describe a museum they have visited. T / F

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2 3.02 Listen again. Answer the questions.

1 What three things in museums help to make history more real?
___________________________________________________________________________________
2 How many objects does the Google Art Project have?
___________________________________________________________________________________
3 How many museums and buildings participate in the project?
___________________________________________________________________________________
4 What do you click on to take a virtual tour?
___________________________________________________________________________________
5 What event can you find information about on the Apollo Program web page?
___________________________________________________________________________________
6 Name one famous building that you can visit through the website.
___________________________________________________________________________________
7 How many things from the museum do the students need to find and write about?
___________________________________________________________________________________

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Reading
1 Look at texts A and B. Which text do you think … ?
1 is nonfiction (why?)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2 describes how someone felt
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3 gives dates about events in the past
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4 is more dramatic
_______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 Read texts A and B. Answer the questions.

1 In text A, what injury did the man have?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2 What was the nurse doing when the man in text A first saw her?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3 Find three adverbs in text A. Why do you think the author uses them?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4 In text B, what two reasons does the author give for so many people dying in hospitals?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
5 Why did Florence Nightingale go to Germany?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
6 Name one thing that she did to change nursing.
_______________________________________________________________________________________

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Text A

Mountain Escape
The nurse carefully lifted the young man’s head. He had probably fallen in the snow earlier that morning. She saw
dark, red blood on his head and looked inside the medical bag which she had brought. While she was cleaning the
wound, the man slowly opened his eyes. His body filled with a warm feeling; so warm that he forgot the ice that
was melting around him. He wanted to thank her but he was too weak to speak. Suddenly, the nurse stood up
and looked around. She had heard a noise. Maybe it was an animal. She knew that she had to move the man or
that his life would be in danger. She pulled his heavy body through the snow towards a large tree where they
could hide. She was very cold and she didn’t have the strength to move him quickly. She heard the animal again.
It was getting closer. Then she saw her black bag by the river. She had forgotten it! Should she go back for it
now or stay with the man?

Text B

Important People In History – Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous women in the history of
medicine. Her work brought about important changes in the way nurses
worked in hospitals.

Hospitals in the past

In the 1800s, hospitals were dirty and the beds were close together.
Illnesses spread very quickly and many patients used to die. The nurses
who worked there often didn’t have any training or medical education.
Florence Nightingale changed all this.

Background and education

Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in 1820, but she spent her childhood in England. She studied history,
math, and Italian and was very academic. In those days, women usually got married after school, but Florence
wanted more from life. In the early 1850s she went to Germany where she learned basic nursing skills, and then
a friend asked her to return to London to work in a hospital there.

War

The Crimean War started in 1853 and Britain sent soldiers to fight the Russians. Nightingale wanted to go to help
the injured. In 1854, she went to work at the hospital in Scutari in Turkey with 38 nurses. She asked for 80 more
nurses to help her. They cleaned the wards regularly and washed the patients and their bedding. These changes
saved many lives.

Turning point in medicine

In 1856, she returned to Britain. She started the first training school for nurses and in 1859 she published the
book Notes on Nursing. She completely changed the job of nursing in hospitals and, as a result of her work,
fewer patients in hospitals died.
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Writing
TASK Think of an important person in your country. They can still be living or a person from history.
Write a blog post and argue that your city needs to celebrate this person. Think of ideas for
three paragraphs. Include information about:
• what the person has done
• why you think the person is important
• how you think the city can celebrate this person (plaque / monument / statue, etc.)

1 First, make a mind map for each paragraph.

2 Don’t forget to think about RAFT (role, audience, format, topic).

3 Use your notes to write your post. Write 100–120 words.

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