4º SS Unit 5 – PREHISTORY (Student´s Book and Activity Book SOLUTIONS)

HOMEWORK:

1. Check the solutions to the exercises you did last week from the books of S.S. (Student´s Book and Activity Book).

UNIT 5 Social Science – TIME AND HISTORY

4º SS STUDENT´S BOOK (solutions)

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SOLUTIONS

1 The houses are round. They are built of stone with grass or straw roofs (these roofs had a structure of wood).

2 A historian is a person who is an expert on one or more periods of History. A cave is a large hollow place formed by natural processes in the side of a hill or underground, where prehistoric people used to live. A museum is a place where interesting and valuable historical items or works of art are kept, studied, and displayed to the public.

3 Some examples: works of art, jewellery, pottery, weapons, books, clothes, coins, etc.

4 Pottery.

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SOLUTIONS

1 a. Prehistory; b. cave paintings; c. use fire; d. natural.

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SOLUTIONS

1 - The Metal Ages.

2 - Pupils’ own answers.

3  - AD 476

4 - Pupils’ own answers

5 - BC: Before Christ (before the birth of Jesus Christ traditionally in the year 0).

      AD is from the Latin Anno domini (the year of our Lord) which is after the birth of Jesus Christ.

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SOLUTIONS

1 - a. 400,000 years old; the Palaeolithic Period. b. No, there are animal bones too.

c. They found the site when they were building a railway line.

2 - Copper, bronze, iron.

3 - Walls were usually constructed to protect the village from attacks.

4º SS ACTIVITY BOOK (solutions)

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SOLUTIONS

Activity 1

PREHISTORY
STONE AGE	METAL AGES
When it began : 1.2 million years ago	Remains: Castros de Santa Tecla
Remains : Atapuerca	Way of life : sedentary
Way of life : nomads

2 – (4) The Contemporary Age – (1) Ancient History – (2) The Middle Ages – (3) The Modern Age

3 – a. AD 476 / 1492 – b. 1492 / 1789 (Spain in 1808)

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SOLUTIONS

4 – a. the Middle Ages – b. the Contemporary Age – c. Ancient History – d. the Modern Age.

5 – a. Neolithic – b. Palaeolithic

6 – PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD (People moved around to hunt and find food. People discovered fire and they used it for different things. People made tools from stone, wood and bone.)

NEOLITHIC PERIOD (People made ceramic pots to cook and store food. People polished their tools to make them sharper.)

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SOLUTIONS

7 – a. F – b. T – c. F – d. T

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SOLUTIONS

1 – The name is Cave Painting workshop.

2 – It is organised in the public library.

3 – It is on Sunday, 24th of March from 11:00-13:00.

4 – It costs 7€.

5 – You have to bring your own canvas.

6 – You must be between 8 and 12 years old.