Name: ____________________________________________ Group: _______ Result: __/100 UNIT 4 - History Vocabulary 1 Read the sentences and write the verbs of discovery. a b c d e f g h i j ‘______________’ is the opposite of ‘leave.’ To ______________ means to find new places. To ______________ means to look around in new places. To ______________ means to travel on a bike or horse. To ______________ means to travel on a ship. To ______________ means to travel in a plane. To ______________ means to go to places around the world. ‘______________’ is the infinitive of ‘went.’ To _________ ________ means to leave on a plane. To ______________ means to arrive on a plane. land explore arrive discover take off ride sail fly travel Go Score __/10 2 Complete the sentences with natural disasters. a There’s no water and the land is dry! It’s a d______________. b The sea is moving over the land and covering the houses! It’s a t______________. c Oh no! Mount Etna is erupting and lava is coming towards the town! It’s a v______________ e______________. d The land is shaking under our feet and buildings are falling down. Oh no! It’s a powerful e______________. e People are hungry because there isn’t any food. There is a terrible f______________. f Earth and big rocks are falling down the side of the mountain and destroying houses. It’s a l______________. g The storm and the wind are very strong. The h______________ is destroying all the houses in town! h Call 911! The house is burning down and there are people inside! It’s a f______________. i It rained and rained all week and now there is a lot of water in the rivers. It’s coming up onto the streets in the city center. It’s a f______________. j The wind is blowing round and round and moving across the plains really fast. It’s a t___________. flood fire Hurricane tsunami famine drought earthquake tornado landslide volcanic eruption Score __/20 #InstaEnglish – Photocopiable © Macmillan Education do Brasil Grammar 3 Complete the sentences with the simple past form of the verbs in parentheses. a The Persians ________________ (cook) the first cookies with sugar a long time ago. b The first car ________________ (come) from Germany. c Joe ________________ (take) photos of Mount Everest the first time he _____________ (visit) it. d Samantha ___________________ (go) to the Greek Islands on her last vacation. e Jack _____________________ (leave) for Rome to learn about its rich history. f There ________________ (be) a terrible earthquake in China in 1556. Score __/14 4 Use the information in the box to complete the sentences in the simple past. (take - affirmative) potatoes (write - affirmative) many books (meet - negative) his father (travel - negative) to Thailand (eat - negative) pasta (invent - affirmative) ice cream (map - affirmative) travel routes a The Italians _______________________ using milk. b The Greeks __________________________ in the first century. c Sailors __________________________________, not fish, from Chile to Europe. d Christopher Columbus __________________________, but he traveled to many other places. e David Thompson _______________________________ around Canada, not the U.S.A. f Marco Polo ________________________ when he was born; he got to know him when he was 15. g Jules Verne ____________________________; the one I like best is Around the World in Eighty Days. Score __/14 #InstaEnglish – Photocopiable © Macmillan Education do Brasil 5 Write questions in the simple past. Then complete the short answers. a b c d e Emma / go to Italy / last summer ? ____________________________________________________________ Yes, she ______________. Joe / read / about Jules Verne ? ____________________________________________________________ No, he ______________. your mom and dad / live near Liverpool / when they were young ? ____________________________________________________________ Yes, ______________ Amelia Earhart / fly solo ? ____________________________________________________________ Yes, ______________. the Wright Brothers / build a truck ____________________________________________________________ No, ______________. Score __/10 Reading 6 Read the text and circle T (true) or F (false). The Australian Adventurer Australia is an enormous continent. It is about 4,000 kilometers from east to west. But in 1912, one man decided to travel across the continent... by bicycle! The man’s name was Francis Birtles. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1881 and he always loved adventure. When he was a young man, he bought a bicycle and started cycling. He rode around Australia twice and became the first person to ride a bike across the continent from west to east. Francis became very popular and a lot of newspapers wrote stories about him. As a result, in 1926 a car manufacturing company gave him a car and asked him to drive it across Australia. He completed this amazing journey in eight days and 13 hours, and the car company sold a lot of cars because of the publicity! Later in his life, Francis continued to have adventures. He explored the north of Australia and discovered gold, and he made two films about his adventures. When he died in 1941, Francis Birtles was a very rich man. a Francis Birtles cycled across Australia from east to west. T/F b People weren’t very interested in Francis’ achievements. T/F c Francis bought a car and drove it across Australia. T/F d Francis was an explorer in later life. T/F e During his life Francis made a lot of money. T/F Score __/10 #InstaEnglish – Photocopiable © Macmillan Education do Brasil
