Christopher Columbus

Do you know why and when we celebrate Columbus Day? Watch

the cartoon and check.
Task 1
Match the person with his/her description.
Native Americans
Columbus named America
It separates () America
and Spain
She gave money on the voyage
to America
He discovered America.

Christopher Columbus
Queen Isabella of Spain
The Atlantic Ocean
Indians
San Salvador

Task 2
Circle the correct variant.
The people believed the Earth was
round/flat/square.
Christopher Columbus was a carpenter/a mapmaker/a sailor.
Christopher Columbus waited for 5/6/7 years before they gave
him money for the journey.
The 2/22/12 months after they started there was still no land
ahead.
Columbus and his crew saw men with reddish yellow/ reddish
brown skins who lived there.
Columbus was looking for the great wealth/ spices/ of India.
Task 3
Report the sentences.
1.
2.
3.
4.

I think the world isnt flat at all, Christopher Columbus.

He is a crazy man! other people
I will discover a short cut to India, Christopher Columbus
Turn back, Columbus! sailors

5. It had fresh berries on it! That mean were near land!

sailors
Task 4
Imagine that youre one of the Indians who have just met
Christopher Columbus and his crew. Discuss the impressions with
your
friends.
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