1.1.3 - L1 - The Falaj

Multiple Select

What do you think a 'falaj' might be?

(The plural for the word is aflaj)

• A type of food

• A channel of water

• A bit of clothing

• I have no idea

Multiple Choice

What is an oasis?

• A type of soft drink

• A place in the desert where plants can grow

• A time period in the Bronze Age

• An underground water channel

Multiple Choice

What do you think 'Iron Age' might mean?

• A time when you use the iron to iron your clothes

• A time where irons were invented

• A time period after the Bronze Age, when iron tools were used

• A time period when people did a lot of ironing

Multiple Choice

What is iron?

• A type of bread

• A product used to take wrinkles out of clothes

• The name of a tool

• A type of metal

Multiple Choice

Which image is the 'mudbrick'?

Open Ended

How do you get fresh water today for cooking and drinking? How do you get water for your kitchen and bathroom?

Open Ended

How do you think that people 4,000 years ago would have got their water?

Open Ended

What did people in Sharjah do to get fresh water?

Open Ended

Why were wells and springs not enough to get fresh water?

Open Ended

How did having aflaj impact human life in the region around 1000BCE?

Open Ended

How are the aflaj and oases related?

(Oases is the plural of 'oasis')

Open Ended

How do you think the underground channel of water saved water?

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