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ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY (1) - GREAT BRITAIN
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-12
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1314
GUESS WHO? - The famous People Game - Speaking about personal information
Level:
elementary
Age:
12-17
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1243
BREAKFAST - 2/2
Level:
elementary
Age:
8-17
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899
How to write a biography
Level:
intermediate
Age:
11-17
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1559
Make a timeline of famous people - biographies/simple past tense, project part 3 of 3 **editable**
Level:
intermediate
Age:
11-17
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998
Worksheet: "Describing famous people"
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-17
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717
Which empire did Genghis Khan start?
the Ottoman Empire
the Persian Empire
the Mongol Empire
According to legend, Manco Capac was the man who...
started the Inca Empire.
discovered South America.
built Mayan temples.
Marco Polo travelled the 7,000-km-long Silk Road from Europe to China. He set out in 1271. When did he return home?
5 years later
12 years later
24 years later
According to many poets and historians, Cleopatra died after ...
she ate some poisoned food.
a poisonous snake bit her.
she stabbed herself.
Who said "I came, I saw, I conquered." after winning a battle in Asia Minor?
Julius Caesar
Genghis Khan
Tutankhamun
Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world. How old was he when he died?
76
49
32
Who were the Pilgrims?
They were the musicians.
They were the people settled in North America.
They were the people left the North America in 1620.
Who designed many working machines for war, industry and transport?
Leonardo da Vinci
Neil Armstrong
Zhores Alferov
Who was the first man who walked on the moon?
Yuri Gagrin
Neil Armstrong
Alexsey Leonov
Who invented the light bulb?
Zhores Alferov
Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Edison
The Mona Lisa was painted by ...
Frida Kahlo
Van Gogh
Leonardo da Vinci
Who was the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Zhores Alferov
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
What is the name of a famous English writer?
Christopher Columbus
George Washington
Charles Dickens
What is the name of the 16th American President?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
George Bush
Who pioneered modern nursing during the Crimean war?
Marie Curie
Florence Nightingale
Frida Kahlo
Marie Curie
Florence Nightingale
Frida Kahlo
was a Polish chemist and physicist.
Marie Curie
Florence Nightingale
Frida Kahlo
was a British nurse.
Abraham Lincoln was
the 16th
the 17th
the 18th
American President.
George Washington began his
business
voyage
military career
at the age of 21.
Frida Kahlo dreamed of becoming
an artist
an architect
a doctor
as a child.
Frida Kahlo got married
Don Rivera
Den Rivera
Diego Rivera
in 1929.
John Gabot was
an Italian
an American
an English
explorer.
King Henry VII
Queen Elizabeth I
King Charles I
agreed to help pay for Gabot's voyage.
Van Gogh was a great painter, but he sold only
one
two
three
painting in his lifetime!
Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of
the light bulb
the TVset
the telephone
.
Leonardo da Vinci was ahead
in
to
of
his time.
Alexander the Great fought
against
at
for
the Persians many times.
Columbus decided to try to sail
east
north
west
to find a new trade route.
On each voyage Columbus believed he was in
America
India
Africa
.
On September 6th 1620, 100 people sailed from England for
a better life
discovery
travelling
in North America.