UNIDAD EDUCATIVA FISCAL

CARLOS MONTEVERDE ROMERO

ENGLISH REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES FOR
BGU
English teacher: lcda debbie bastidas

ACTIVITIES QUIMESTER 2
2TH QUIMESTER 05/10/2021
Topic: The Aztec Civilization
Civilization Name: Aztec civilization
Period: 1345 AD-1521 AD
Original Location: Southcentral region of preColumbian Mexico
Current Location: Mexico
Major Highlights: Nahuatl became the major language
The Aztec Empire operated in what is today Mexico in the 1300s-1500s.
Despite sharing much technology with bronze-age civilizations, they were
incredibly scientifically advanced in certain areas, such as astronomy,
which drove them to create a very accurate calendar. They had their own
writing system, performed feats of architecture which would be difficult
to replicate even with modern technology, and worked gold into statues.
The fact that
they could invent all these things independently from the Old World is
remarkable.
The Aztec Empire was predated by a series of city-states. These city-states
fought each other regularly but no one was able to gain the upper hand.
In 1250 AD, the Mexica people migrated into the area, and founded the
city of Tenochtitlan, on the site of which Mexico City, the capital of
Mexico, stan

ACTIVITY 1
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1) Before the Aztec empire, what was the dominant form of government
in the area?

2) The Mexica city of Tenochtitlan once stood on the site of which modern
city?

3) How many cities allied to form the Aztec Empire?

4) What was the role of Hernán Cortés in the fall of the Aztec Empire
Topic: The Greek Civilization
The Ancient Greek Civilization

Civilization Name: Greek civilization

Period: 2700 BC-479 BC
Original Location: Italy, Sicily, North Africa, and as far west as France
Current Location: Greece
Major Highlights: Concepts of democracy and the Senate, the Olympics
The ancient Greeks may not have been the oldest civilization, but they
are doubtlessly one of the most influential. Even though the rise of
ancient Greece came from the Cycladic and Minoan civilizations (2700
BC-1500 BC), there is evidence of burials in the Franchthi Cave in
Argolid, Greece, dating back to around 7250 BC. The history of this
civilization is spread over such a long period of time that historians
have divided it into different periods, the most popular of them being
the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. These periods saw a
number of ancient Greeks come into the limelight, many of whom
changed the world forever and are still being talked about to this day.
ACTIVITY 2 Copy the vocabulary
Ancient Greece
Vocabulary
Legacy Definition: Something handed down or that remains from a
previous generation or time.
Context: One legacy of Socrates was his dialogues, or using questions
and answers as a teaching method.
 Mythology Definition: A group of myths that belong to a particular
people or culture that tells about their history, heroes, and gods.
Context: Ancient Greek mythology includes stories about powerful gods
who look and act like humans, but who can control nature and are
immortal.
Philosophy Definition: Academic study that is devoted to the examination
of basic concepts, such as truth, beauty, freedom, and reality.
Context: Scholars study Aristotle's philosophy.

CHINA
ACTIVITY 3 COPY THIS INFORMATION
Is a country with a very early civilization and a long and rich history.
The compass, gunpowder, the art of paper-making and block printing
invented by the ancient Chinese have contributed immensely to the
progress of mankind. The Great Wall, Grand Canal and other projects
built by the Chinese people are regarded as engineering feats in the
world.

Topic: The Inca Civilization

Civilization Name: Incan civilization
Period: 1438 AD–1532 AD

Original Location: Present-day Peru

Current Location: Ecuador, Peru, and Chile

Major Highlights: Largest empire in South America in

the pre-Columbian era
Francisco Pizarro and other Spanish conquistadors came upon the Inca
Empire in 1532.
At the time it was one of the largest empires in the world. The Inca
civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th
century. The empire included the territory between the Pacific coast and
the Amazon River basin and stretched from Ecuador to northern Chile.
 In total, the Inca Empire included a diverse population with many
different groups of people and contained a population in the millions.
ACTIVITY 4 ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
How much do you know about the Inca empire?
Do you know who was the founder of the Inca Empire?
Do you know the names of those who traveled the Empire by
mail?
The Incas were the children of the sun. Do you know the name of
the divinity?
ACTIIVITY 5 COPY THIS INFORMATION

Topic: World War 1

World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder
catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. During the
conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
(the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy,
Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).
Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare,
World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By
the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more
than 16 million people-soldiers and civilians alike-were dead.
There were many factors that led up to the start of World War I in
Europe. A lot of these factors were rooted in the deep history of the old
powers of Europe including Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Austria,
Hungary, and Britain. The real causes of World War I included politics,
secret alliances, imperialism, and nationalistic pride. However, there was
one single event, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria,
which started a chain of events leading to war

ACTIIVITY 6 Copy this passage

Topic: World War II

U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with Operation
Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The war in the
 Pacific began on December 7/8, 1941, when Japan attacked the
American naval base at Pearl Harbor and other American, Dutch, and
British military installations throughout Asia.
World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved
virtually every part of the world during the years 1939-45. The principal
belligerents were the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan-and the
Allies France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to
a lesser
extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an
uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I.
The 40,000,00050,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the
bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.

Topic: Origins of the Cold War

The Cold War developed as differences about the shape of the postwar
world created suspicion and distrust between the United States and the
Soviet Union. The first - and most difficult - test case was Poland, the
eastern half of which had been invaded and occupied by the USSR in
1939. Moscow demanded a government subject to Soviet influence;
Washington wanted a more independent, representative government
following the Western model. The Yalta Conference of February 1945
had produced an agreement on Eastern Europe open to different
interpretations. It included a promise of "free and unfettered" elections.
ACTIVITY 7 ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. What European country provided the first test case in
the Cold War?
2. How did the Soviet Union support the efforts of the
Communist parties in Eastern Europe and crush the
democratic parties?

3. In 1948, the Soviets backed a shocking coup d'état in

what country?

4. Who coined the phrase "iron curtain"?

 Topic: The end of apartheid
ACTIVITY 8 COPY THE INFORMTION

What is apartheid
Apartheid (“apartness” in the language of Afrikaans) was a system of
legislation that upheld segregationist policies against non-white citizens
of South Africa. After the National Party gained power in South Africa
in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing
policies of racial segregation. Under apartheid, nonwhite South Africans
(a majority of the population) would be forced to live in separate areas
from whites and use separate public facilities. Contact between the two
groups would be limited.

ACTIVITY 9 ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1. In what country was apartheid a part of the law?

2. What happened to people who protested apartheid?
3. When did apartheid begin?
4. What were the lands called where non-whites were
forced to live?

Vietnam War
ACTIVITY 10 COPY THIS INFORMATION
The ideological differences between the two antagonistic
states in which the country had been divided in 1954:
 North Vietnam, with a communist regime and planned
economy; and South Vietnam, which defended liberal
democracy, capitalism and the market economy.
Consequences
Among the main consequences of the Vietnam War, the
following stand out:
. The deaths of more than 4 million Vietnamese military and civilians,
and some 60,000 US soldiers
. The disappearance of the government of South Vietnam and the
reunification of the country under the leadership of the communist
leaders of North Vietnam.

. The first military defeat of the United States in its entire history and the
loss of influence in the Indochina region.

. Deforestation and agricultural pollution in Vietnam, as a consequence

of the massive use of chemical weapons by the United States Air Force.

. The destabilization of the US government of Republican President

Richard Nixon who, in August 1974, resigned after the Watergate
scandal.

Topic: The holocaust

Causes and consequences of the Holocaust
Causes
ACTIVITY 11 COPY THIS INFORMATION

1. The ideas developed by Hitler and the main Nazi hierarchs about the
superiority of the Aryan race and that the unions of Germans with Jews
threatened the purity and strength of that race.
  2. The belief of many Germans that the Jews were responsible for the
defeat of Germany in the First World War.

3. The idea developed by the Nazis about the existence of an

international conspiracy of which the Jews were part. The alleged
objective of this conspiracy was to harm Germany.

4. The economic and financial crisis that Germany was going through
during the Great Depression. To alleviate the consequences of this crisis,
the Nazis set out to segregate the Jews, confiscate their property and use
them as slave labor in the weapons factories.

Consequences
1. Although the figures are not exact, it is believed that some 6 million
Jews were victims of the Holocaust. About 5 million more people were
killed in the death camps, for a total of about 11 million.

2. It is estimated that the Germans murdered a third of the Jews living in

Europe in 1939, leaving the European Jewish community weakened and
deeply traumatized by the experience.

Topic: Art Throught History

Activity 11 RESEARCH THE

FOLLOWING TOPICS RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF ART

1.- Investigate What is the concept of a hieroglyph?

2.- Investigate. - What are the most important constructions of ancient Rome?
3.- Investigate. - What were the most important artists of the Middle Ages?
4.- Investigate. - What were the most famous paintings by Michelangelo and
Leonardo Davinci?
5.-Who were the most important painters of realistic art?
6.-What were the main characteristics of expressionism?
7.-What does the word "fauvism" mean and where does it come from?
8.-Who was the greatest exponent of Cubism?
9.- What are the general characteristics of Futurism?
10.- Salvador Dalí was the most famous surrealist, name his most important works of
art.-
11.- Who was the main figure of the POP ART artistic movement?
12.- what is a photorealistic image

English teacher : LCDA DEBBIE BASTIDAS