Here are 3 sample history trivia questions your group could write:
1. Who was the first person to discover bacteria using a microscope?
2. What famous novel did Miguel de Cervantes write in 1605?
3. Which famous tower was built in Paris, France by Gustave Eiffel in 1889?
Be sure to write the answers to your questions as well so other groups have a chance to answer correctly! Have fun with the history trivia game.
This discusses sentence with one clause that is using only one verb. Sometimes it is confused with object of prepositions, appositives, present participles, and past participles.
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Quizmasters were Balagopal Menon, Anik Dasgupta, Aditya Agarwal, Ananyo Brahma, Pratyoy Das, Arunava Banerjee, and Baidik Chandra.
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Quizmasters were Balagopal Menon, Anik Dasgupta, Aditya Agarwal, Ananyo Brahma, Pratyoy Das, Arunava Banerjee, and Baidik Chandra.
The winners were Jadavpur University with 163 points. The first runners-up and second runners-up were Presidency University and St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, with 154 and 136 points respectively.
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Butler unit 11
1. Assignment 2 – 8 points
•Make a postcard for your partner.
•Use page 98 – C as a guideline.
•Write at least 6 sentences using simple past tense and –ed/-ing adjectives from Unit 10.
•Exchange the post card with your partner.
•Check your partner’s postcard message with a red pen.
Checklist: Can you find any:
___ grammar mistakes (Yesterday, I go went swimming.)
___ spelling mistakes (We allived arrived at Disney last week.)
___ vocabulary mistakes (It was very excited exciting.)
Also you must write 2 follow up questions on your partner’s card.
Schedule:
(Nov. 18-22) Bring your postcard to class next week and give it to someone in your group.
(Nov. 25-29) Submit your partner's postcard to me.
9. Write questions that would give you
answers for the blanks
• Example:
1. Seabuscuit was born in (place) __________
Where was Seabiscuit (he) born?
10. Page 108 Pair Reading
• Student A read Paragraph 1 and answer your
questions.
• Student B read paragraph 2 and answer your
questions.
Now ask each other questions to fill in the
missing information.
Example:
Student A: What was Seabiscuit’s trainer’s
name? (Hint: Who, what, when where)
11. Did you ask these questions?
Student A:
6. What was Seabiscuit’s trainer’s name?
7. What was his jockey’s name?
8. When did he beat War Admiral?
9. When did he retire?
10. When did he die?
Student B:
1. Where was Seabiscuit born?
2. When was he born?
3. When did Howard buy Seabisuit?
4. What was Howard’s job?
5. Where was Howard’s ranch?
12. Page 109 –
Do you know anything about Steve Irwin?
He was known as the Crocodile
Hunter.
13. Page 109 - Do you know Steve Irwin?
In 2006...
Steve died when he was swimming with a stingray.
14. Page 109 – Grammar – simple past with “when” clauses
When Steve Irwin died, people were sad.
Use a comma.
People were sad when Steve Irwin died.
15. More examples
When I was young, I hit my brother.
I hit my brother when I was young.
16. padlet.com/wall/smuthursday
*Make 2 sentences:
-When I was young, I hit my brother.
-I hit my brother when I was young.
Do not write your name.
When I was young…
When I was 10 years old…
When I was a middle school
student…
When I was drinking soju…
When I was angry…
17. Mingle!
.
Find the secret person
Did you ride a bicycle when you were young?
Did you fight when you drank soju?
Did you study when you were a high school student?
18. Page 110 – Vocabulary: life events
retire, graduate, have children, get a job
1. be born
2. grow up
3.
4.
5. get married
6.
7.
8. die
19. Page 110 – Vocabulary: life events
1. be born
2. grow up
3. graduate
4. get a job
5. get married
6. have children
7. retire
8. die
Now, what’s the past tense of those words?
20. Page 110 – Vocabulary: life events
1. be born = was born
2. grow up = grew up
3. graduate = graduated
4. get a job = got a job
5. get married = got married
6. have children = had children
7. retire = retired
8. Die = died
21. • Workbook: Unit 10 Page 60 B, C & 4 A
C
Page 61 6 A, B
BY FINAL EXAM
• Unit 11 Page 65 2 A B (next week)
22. Assignment 2 – 8 points
•Make a postcard for your partner.
•Use page 98 – C as a guideline.
•Write at least 6 sentences using simple past tense and –ed/-ing adjectives from Unit 10.
•Exchange the post card with your partner.
•Check your partner’s postcard message with a red pen.
Checklist: Can you find any:
___ grammar mistakes (Yesterday, I go went swimming.)
___ spelling mistakes (We allived arrived at Disney last week.)
___ vocabulary mistakes (It was very excited exciting.)
Also you must write 2 follow up questions on your partner’s card.
Schedule:
(Nov. 18-22) Bring your postcard to class next week and give it to someone in your group.
(Nov. 25-29) Submit your partner's postcard to me.
24. Page 100 – 3-C
• Wednesday classes:
Tell your partner a short story about one of your family
members:
EX:
My grandfather was born in Busan but he grew up in
Daegu. He got married when he was 22 years old.
He had 3 children. I got a job at Hyundae
Shipbuilding and retired in 1986.
25. Page 110-4 A
Listening to a life story
• Read the notes on Florence Griffith-Joyner
(Flo-Jo)
• Listen to the story
• Listen again and fill in the notes.
26. Ask your partner questions, to check
your answers:
Example: How many meters was her first race
race?
Use these hints:
What was ….
Where did….
How many did…
When did…
27. Check your answers
Place of birth: X
Date of birth: X
Silver medal in: 200 meter race
Famous for:
amazing and colorful clothes
Country of 88 Olympics: Seoul, Korea
Number of Gold Medals: 3
Year she retired: 1988
Date she died: Sept. 21st 1998
28. Page 111 Speaking A B C
A. Listen and underline the words or phrases that
people use to take time to think.
What did you underline?
Uh
Let me think
Just a second
Well
Can you think of any more?
29. Page 111 B Blast from the Past Trivia
Quiz (Group) Close books
• One student per group log-in at
beta.socrative.com
Room number 850986 Make a group
name
• When the quiz starts, take turns
reading questions and answer choices.
• With your group, discuss and answer the
questions. Use expressions from “Taking time to
think” Umm, hmmm, let me think.
36. find the mistakes
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
I danced with you.
You danced with he.
Them danced with us.
We danced with them.
She danced with I.
You danced with you.
37. find the mistakes
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
I danced with you.
You danced with he. (X) - him
Them danced with us. (X) - They
We danced with them.
She danced with I. (X) - me
You danced with you.
38. Page 112 Grammar Object Pronouns
A.Read the story. Who is him?
Who is her? Who are them?
39. Page 112 - B
subject
I
you
he
she
it
we
you
they
object
me
you
(1) ____
(2) ____
it
us
you
(3) ____
40. Page 112 - B
subject
I
you
he
she
it
we
you
they
object
me
you
(1)him
(2) her
it
us
you
(3) them
41. Page 112 – C – replace the underlined with a pronoun
1. My father fell in love with my mother when he met
my mother.
42. Page 112 – C - replace the underlined with a pronoun
1. My father fell in love with my mother when he met
her.
43. Page 112 – C - replace the underlined with a pronoun
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
My father fell in love with my mother when he met her.
I met ___ five years ago.
I gave ___ the player for his birthday.
She loved ___.
They gave ___ a new car!
I took ___ out to dinner.
44. Page 112 – C - replace the underlined with a pronoun
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
My father fell in love with my mother when he met her.
I met them five years ago.
I gave him the player for his birthday.
She loved it.
They gave us a new car!
I took her out to dinner.
45. Page 112 – D – groups of 4
1. Who is your best friend? When did you meet him/her?
2. What was the last present someone gave you? Did you like it?
What your why not?
3. When was the last time you went out with your friends? Where
did you go?
Follow-Up!
Use object pronouns:
me / you / him / her / it / us / you / them
46. Page 113 – Vocabulary: historical events
base form of the verb
won – win
built –
invented –
explored –
wrote –
fought –
composed –
discovered –
47. Page 113 – Vocabulary: historical events
base form of the verb
won – win
built – build
invented – invent
explored – explore
wrote – write
fought – fight
composed – compose
discovered – discover
48. Page 113 – Vocabulary: historical events
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The U.S. won its independence from England in 1783.
Marco Polo ____ China for the first time in 1271.
Gustave Eiffel ___ the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
The Egyptians _____ cosmetics in 4000 B.C.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek _____ bacteria in 1683.
Cervantes ____Don Quixote in 1605.
Napolean ____ the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Georges Bizet ____ the opera Carmen in 1875.
49. Page 113 – Vocabulary: historical events
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The U.S. won its independence from England in 1783.
Marco Polo explored China for the first time in 1271.
Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
The Egyptians invented cosmetics in 4000 B.C.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria in 1683.
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in 1605.
Napolean fought the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Georges Bizet composed the opera Carmen in 1875.
50. History Trivia Game
1. Work together with your
group and write 3 history trivia
questions:
Example:
Who wrote _____?
Who won ________ ?
Who invented _________ ? Etc..
(your group must know the
answers)
2. Write your group
questions on
padlet.com/wall/smut
hurs