Activities
Exercise One :Read the text and answer the following :
I- Say true or false
1- Britain was slightly connected with the sea.
2- In old times, travel was impossible through water
3- Surrounding seas protected Britain from any type of danger.
4- Britain benefited a great deal of its geographic situation.
5- Britain has been an island from its very existence.
Exercise 2
Complete the following sentences
1- Britain became an island at……………………when…………………
and…………………….…
2- Early settlements of British Isles are still…………………………..
3- The Isles were…………………………….for a long time.
4- Traditional theories were rvised by………………………………to clear out the
…………………………of the British Isles.
Exercise 3
- Match the following statements in column ‘A’ with their corresponding ones in column ‘B’
A | B |
1- Mesolithic and Neolithic settlers | Palaeolithic stone Age Nomads |
2- Old Stone Age nomads used
| Developped more advanced skills in stone carving |
3- Earliest human bones
| Arrived between 8300 and 2000 BC from Central Europe and from Iberian areas |
4- Later settlers came to Britain
| 500.000 |
5- The first people were probably | Rudimentary stone impliments
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6- People arriving from Iberian areas settled | Western parts of Britain |
6- People arriving from Central Europe populated | Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man and western Scotland |
Homework : Use information in previous activities to write your own summary
of the text in no more than 15 lines
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