HISTORICAL DAYS: CRASH 1929

You can watch again the video of our first historical day. Enjoy these classes with Jaimie and practise your oral skills!!!!

KEY WORDS AND VOCABULARY METAL AGE

KEY WORDS

Metal Age: Period in history that lasted from around 3500 B.C TO 750 B.C and includes the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Metallurgy: Technique for extracting metals from rock or earth and their treatment and use.

Metalworking: -Extract the ore.
                         -Smelt the metal in a furnace.
                         - Remove the slag.
                         - Pour the metal into the mould.

Menhirs: Large stones pushed into the ground, forming a circle (cromlech) or a line (alignment).

Dolmens: Made from several vertical stone walls and a horizontal stone.

VOCABULARY

ore, iron, bronze, copper, sword, knive, plough, trade, clay, wheel, war, weapons, ceremonies, alloy, corrosion, extraction, jewellery, helmet, hammer, irrigation, mould, tomb, smelt, walled.

Talking about Metal Age....

Here a game to practise about Iron Age.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/ironage_life/index_embed.shtml

Have you passed the quiz?

MUSIC TIME

What is the relation between Lucy Hominid and this song?

KEY WORDS AND VOCABULARY STONE AGE

KEY WORDS

Hominids: The upper primates who walked upright and all their descendants, incluiding human beings.

Prehistory: Long period of time that began with the appearance of the first human beings and ended with the discovery of the written word.

Palaeolithic Age: "old stone" Prehistoric era of around 5 millions years ago until 7000 B.C.

Neolithic Age: "new stone" Prehistoric era from approximately 7000 B.C. to 3500 B.C.

Nomad: A member of a tribe that has not permanent settlement, in the Paleolithic Age when resources ran out in one place, they moved to another to find food.

Sedentary: In the Neolithic Age people became sedentary, they lived in permanent settlements because they became producers.

Division of labour: A kind of organisation where people did differents activities or jobs: agriculture, livestock, hunting, fishing, building, basket-making, cloth-making, defence, etc.

Bartering: The exchange of products among differents groups, it appeared in the Neolithic Age.

VOCABULARY

weapons, hide, bones, skull, cave, brain, stone, jaw, upright, tools, chin, forehead,, hunt, fish, 
paint, art, bury, hierarchy, gather, tribe, livestock, agriculture, settlements, spirits, pottery.

And... come on with PREHISTORY!

Here a little video to improve your listening.

Can you understand everything?

WELCOME

Hi students

Welcome to our online space. We are going to dedicate this blog to expand some interesting information  for your studies. I hope you´ll enjoy it!!