VOCABULARY
| adventurer trade route to set sail to land brown-skinned to go on tribe to inhabit separate for safety to discover the reason mistaken idea | cliff settled to wonder to gather roots fierce warlike warrior crop shelter depend upon voyage to honor |
1. Fill in the gaps:
1. He wanted to open up a …between two continents.
2. An Italian … named Christopher Columbus … from Spain to find a new way from Europe to Asia.
3. Pueblo built their houses … on the tops of … .
4. The Apache were … and …
5. They hunted deer and … plants, …, … .
6. The Iroquois were not only … framers, but also they were … and …
7. This … … was corrected by Amerigo Vespucci.
8. Different … … that land.
9. … Amerigo Vespucci that continent was named America.
10. Tribes spoke over 300 … languages.
Read these phrases. Compose the small situation with them.
a) An adventurer; to set sail; long and dangerous route; the greatest geographical discovery;
b) mistaken idea; the inhabitants; to describe; to follow different ways of life; farmers, hunters or fishers; peaceful or warlike.
c) to land; brown-skinned; to go on; tribe; for safety; the reason; cliff; settled; to wonder.
в) to gather; fierce warrior; crop; shelter; depend upon; voyage; to honor
Change the following sentences to passive.
1. Не did not find a new way to India. 2. They named the island San Salvador. 3. They discovered an unknown continent. 4. They named it America. People also call it the New World. 5. Some people still call the first Americans Indians. 6. Scientists have described them more accurately as Native Americans. 7. The first Americans occupied the New World a few thousand years ago. 8. By the late 15th century they had developed some outstanding civilisations in Central and South America.
True or false?
1. Columbus planned to open up a new way to Asia and he achieved his aim.
2. It was very necessary to find a sea trade route to India.
3. America was named after the man who had discovered it.
4. When Europeans arrived, all the Native Americans lived by gathering food in the woods.
5. The Pueblo did not fight with their neighbors
6. The Apache were the settled farmers.
7. The group of people Dakota depended upon deer.
8. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant.
9. The Pueblo didn’t build any houses.
10. On the morning of October 12, an Italian adventurer named Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find a new way from Europe to Asia.