This is a 'treasure hunt' to learn more about the activities for the visit to the British legacy in Huelva

1. TREASURE
HUNT:
By: Manuel Jesús Hermosín Mojeda
:
3rd Cycle of Primary Education
INTRODUCTION: In this treasure hunt you are going to answer different questions
:
about the activity you did last week ‘The British legacy in our town
town’.
To answer the questions you have to look for the information by clicking the hyperlinks
that I offer to you. Be careful, because of you have to read the texts and extract the
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relevant information to answer the questions. It’s not difficult to find the information!
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CLUES: Notice that the most of the questions are in past simple. Remember the
:
grammar rules to talk in past simple: there are regular verbs (the past form ends in –ed)
and irregular verbs (everyone has its own forms). When you need to make questions
(everyone
you have to use the verb ‘to do’ into the past form ‘did’ and when you need to use the
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negative form, you have to do the same.
- AFFIRMARTIVE: Subject + verb (past form) + complements.
- NEGATIVE: Subject + did + not + verb (infinitive form) + complements
complements.
- INTERROGATIVE: (IP if necessary) + Did + subject + verb (infinitive) + complements + ?
IP
QUESTIONS:
1. When did the British start to exploit the Riotinto mines?
2. How many years did British presence take in the XIX century and in the XX
century?
3. What kind of government was in Spain when British bought the mines?
4. What method of mineral extraction did they use in Spanish mines?
5. What did British construct to be use as an outlet for their production?
6. Did British people introduce their own customs?
7. Can you make a list of different customs they introduced?
8. What was Huelva transformed into?
9. Did British introduce an architectonic style for their buildings?
architectonic
10. What was the name of the sports club they created?
11. How many sports they practiced at the beginning?
12. Do you know the name for the first football playground?
13. Do you know the name of the workers quarters in Huelva and in Riotinto?
names
14. Do you remember the route we did? Name the different places.
15. Who was Wilhelm Sundheim?
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SAY TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F) (F):
A. British people were here more than 90 years ______
years.
B. British people used to live like Spanish people ______
people.
C. British loaded their minerals onto ships ______
ships.
D. They constructed a railway from Riotinto to Seville ______
Seville.
E. British possessed the know
know-how to exploit the mines. ______
F. Huelva had the richest copper mines of the time (XIX and XX centuries). _____

2. MATCH THE TWO PARTS OF THE SENTENCES:
British introduced the the British cultural heritage in our province.
For eighty-one years Riotinto a German businessman.
Punta Umbria was was Corta Atalaya.
This route we did shows became a British colony.
British constructed about British presence in ‘Puerta del Atlántico’.
One of the biggest open cast pits the Riotinto pier over the river Odiel.
You can watch an exhibition most advanced technology in mining.
Sundheim was the British summer resort.
HYPERLINKS:
·http://www.englishteacher-manuhe.blogspot.com/
·http://www.mcu.es/arquitecturaybibliotecas/biblioteca.cmd?FORMULARIO=biblioteca&
ACCION=ver&id_biblioteca=0&id_itinerario=17&seccion=itinerario&idioma=English
·http://www.mcu.es/arquitecturaybibliotecas/biblioteca.cmd?FORMULARIO=biblioteca&
ACCION=ver&id_biblioteca=0&id_itinerario=17&seccion=itinerario&id_texto=405&idiom
a=English
·http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Sundheim
· http://rabidaenglish.blogspot.com/2009/04/british-legacy-in-huelva.html
· http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_26816.shtml
NOTE: I’ve made this ‘treasure hunt’ from different resources and sites from the internet
only for educational purposes. All of these sites are ‘open access’, but if you’re in
trouble about this, please contact to me: manuel.hermosin@gmail.com