2020-04-30: history vocabulary, listening practice

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happens-if-you-cut-down-all-of-a-city-s-trees-stefan-al
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Homework (optional): do the other two exercises on the handout
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History Vocabulary - On the worksheet, match the definitions to words in the sentences.
1 invention - invent (invented), inventive
2 kingdom
3 rule (over) - ruler, ruling
4 period - periodic, periodization (dividing history into distinct periods)
5 construct - construction, constructive
6 restrict - restriction, restrictive
7 ancient
8 society - societal (social, socialize, socialism, socialization, etc.)
9 document - document (v), documentation, documentary
10 hierarchy - hierarchical
   (“hier” in this word sounds like “hire” or “higher”; the ‘ch’ in “archy” sounds like /k/)
11 found - foundation
12 civilization - civilize (ing/ed)
13 settler - settle, settlement
   (A settler goes to live somewhere new, that isn’t already an established community.)
14 establish - establishment
15 overthrow - overthrow (n)
   (The grammar follows “throw”: overthrow - overthrew - overthrown)
16 monarchy - monarch
17 revolution - revolutionary (adj or noun)
18 declare - declaration, declarative
- prehistoric: even older than “ancient”, because it means “before history”
- oligarchy: government by the few (but not just one); nowadays usually the very rich
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find - found
found - founded
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https://embed.ly/extract - View the text of a page even if it has a popup that tries to make you subscribe or turn off your ad blocker.
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First battle of the Revolutionary War - April 19, 1775
Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
Treaty ending the Revolutionary War - September 3, 1783
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History Vocabulary practice (Collins) part A - Choose the correct words to fill the blanks.
1 a (Secondary sources are things written about primary sources.)
2 c
3 b (Slave states didn’t “restrict” slaves’ rights to own property, they completely denied such rights.)
4 a
5 c
6 c
7 b
8 b
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part B - Complete the paragraph with the correct forms of the new vocabulary words
1 settled
2 founded/established
3 documents
4 civilization/society
5 hierarchy
6 rulers (A society wouldn’t have a group of monarchs.)
7 constructed
8 overthrown
9 declared
10 period
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Test practice
1 A
2 D
3 [1] (It introduces the “period” that the following sentence refers to.)
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US History listening practice (Delta textbook)
12 D
13 A
14 C
15 D
16 A C
17 B
https://www.historynet.com/the-dead-of-antietam.htm
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More US History (Delta extra tests)
12 D
13 A
14 C
15 A B
16 C
17 B
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Homework (optional): watch one or more history-themed TED talks from https://www.ted.com/talks?topics%5B%5D=history