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Gap-fill Exercise

Place the Timeline cards where they belong in the timeline.

Fill the blanks in the sentences using the following dates: 100 million years • 51 BC • 1513 • 1697 • 1961

a) Cleopatra was crowned Queen of Egypt in ______________________

b) Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper is a tale by Charles Perrault published in ______________________

c) The planet movement was discovered by Copernicus in ______________________

d) Bees have been around for a very long time. They appeared over ______________________

e) The first man to travel into outer space was Russian and his name was Yuri Gagarin. It was in ______________________

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Invention of the wheel

-3500

First shuttle launch Invention of the locomotive Legend of the Minotaur

Emergence of the table fork

972Invention of television

John Logie Baird

1925

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a) According to legend, this event revealed a famous and mysterious curse.

b) Voltaire told this story about the apple.

c) It is the precursor to the watch.

d) In some parts of the world, it looked more like drawings.

e) Vegetals were used before its discovery.

Did you know? Match each anecdote to the corresponding card.

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Invention of the wheel

-3500

Legend of the Minotaur

-1600Invention of the locomotive

Richard Trevithick

1804 Emergence of the table fork

972Invention of television John Logie Baird

1925

First shuttle launchNASA

1981

A

Invention of the toothbrush

1498

B

Invention of the sundial

-1500

C

Emergence of writing

-3400

D

Discovery of universal gravitation

Sir Isaac Newton

1666E

Discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb

Howard Carter

1922

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ANSWERS:

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3a) E • b) D • c) B • d) C • e) A 2a) 51 BC • b) 1697 • c) 1513 • d) 100 millions years • e) 1961