Lesson 14 · History and Civilisation

History and Civilisation Presentation

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English 9 · Unit 14

History and Civilisation

The Maya Empire · The History of Money · used to and the past tenses

What you will be able to do

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Read and discuss two texts: The Maya Empire and The History of Money

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Talk about past habits with used to and didn't use to

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Use the simple past, past continuous and past perfect

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Title a story, build one from an outline, and write an essay on history

Five steps of human evolution

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Australopithecus afarensis walks upright in Africa
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Homo habilis makes the first stone tools
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Homo erectus uses fire and leaves Africa
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Homo neanderthalensis survives cold Europe
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Homo sapiens builds language, farms and cities

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Presenter notes: Open by asking the class what the oldest thing in their house is. Today we travel much further back: to human evolution, a lost empire in Central America, and the story of the money in your pocket. Along the way we learn the grammar English uses to talk about the past.