UNIT 7: Time and History

UNIT 7: Time and History

14/6 - YR 8

What do you think is the purpose of studying history in school?

Discuss your answer.

Do you think it will ever be possible for humans to travel backwards or forwards through time?

Explain your perspective.

Lesson Objective

• Students will listen for information, focusing on the tone.

• Listening to other students discuss their research on history,

Have you ever heard of Howard Carter?

He was an archeologist who, after years of searching in the pharaohs' burial ground in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, finally made a momentous discovery.

Finding the Boy King

Open your textbooks to page 94.

Cambridge Checkpoint English Coursebook 8 - Marian Cox - Google Books

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Multiple Choice

pendant

• jewel or decoration hanging from a necklace

• a restoration or updated presentation

• something that is impossible to understand

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unfathomable

• something that is impossible to understand

• pulsing or glowing with energy and life

• : jewel or decoration hanging from a necklace

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caravans

• pulsing or glowing with energy and life

• something that is impossible to understand

• groups of travelers or vehicles

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revival

• groups of travelers or vehicles

• a restoration or updated presentation

• something that is impossible to understand

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elaborate

• : a restoration or updated presentation

• to add more detail and information

• groups of travelers or vehicles

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inherit

• gain ownership of goods after someone's death

• to add more detail and information

• a restoration or updated presentation

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speculate

• gain ownership of goods after someone's death

• form a theory or conjecture without evidence

• to add more detail and information

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advisor

• form a theory or conjecture without evidence

• a person who gives advice

• gain ownership of goods after someone's death

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reign

• period of rule of a sovereign or monarch

• a person who gives advice

• form a theory or conjecture without evidence

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disintegrate

• a person who gives advice

• period of rule of a sovereign or monarch

• to dissolve into many tiny parts

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Egyptian

• : a person who lives in the country of Egypt

• a light two-wheeled vehicle used in ancient battle

• to dissolve into many tiny parts

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array

• digging up, unearthing

• a person who lives in the country of Egypt

• a collection or layout of many things

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excavating

• a person who lives in the country of Egypt

• digging up, unearthing

• a light two-wheeled vehicle used in ancient battle

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chamber

• a room in a house, usually a bedroom

• a collection or layout of many things

• digging up, unearthing

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looted

• a room in a house, usually a bedroom

• : robbed or took by force

• a collection or layout of many things

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passage

• robbed or took by force

• A tunnel allows passage under water.

• a room in a house, usually a bedroom

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archaeologist

• impressive and sensational

• a route, corridor or pathway for traveling

• someone who studies how people lived long ago

Time and Place Prefix

• excavators

• precaution

• antechamber

• circumstances

• inscribed

Multiple Choice

Which prefix refers to the word "before?"

• anti

• post

• ante

• il

Multiple Select

Check all the words that have a prefix in them

• reaction

• submarine

• antibiotic

• household

• yellowish

Multiple Choice

What is a prefix?

• A word part that is added to the beginning of the base word to change its meaning

• A word part that is added to the end of a base word to change its meaning

• A conjunction

• A made up word

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Trucking companies are hired to do this with products, so they can get from one place to another.

• Transparent

• Translucent

• Translated

• Transport

Multiple Choice

Tommy had to switch schools. What did he do?

• Transferred
• Transcribed
• Translated
• Transported

Multiple Choice

What does preheat mean?

• To heat before
• To not heat
• To be heated
• To heat again

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Which word means to move forward?

• prelude
• autoforce
• proceed
• export

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word for:

To make plans before.

• prearrange

• rearrange

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What does reopen mean?

• To not open

• To open before

• To open again

• To wrongly open

Multiple Select

check all the words with prefixes

• geography

• antecedents

• antique

• antibody

• essential