Based on That's English Module 2 Unit 10

1. Twentieth Century
Talking about past events

2. Talking about past events
What did you do? I travelled around the world.
What did you buy me on our A CD. It was in 1985.
first date?
Did you go to Berlin in 1989? Yes, I was a reporter for a TV station.
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It was
amazing.
Where were we in 1986 when We were at university. We watched it on
the nuclear power station at TV. It was terrible.
Chernobyl exploded?
Where were you in 1992? I spent a lot of 1992 in Spain. I saw the
Olympics in Barcelona, Expo 92 in
Seville, and Madrid was the European
capital of culture.
Did you get married in 1994 No, I didn’t get married in 1994. I got
after the World Cup? married in 1995.

3. Talking about events
in the 20th century
The first big event that I remember was the end of the Second World War. The
WWII started in 1939 and ended in June 1945. When It ended, there were street
parties in every town and city. In London everybody went out onto the streets to
celebrate.
In 1963 one sad event shocked me and the whole world. It was on November
22, 1963. That was the day when Lee Harry Oswald shot John F. Kennedy in
Dallas, Texas.
But the 1960s were general a good and happy time. The hippie revolution began
in the 1960s and people called the summer of 1967, “the summer of love”.
Another historic event from the 60s was the day a man first walked on the
Moon. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was 1969. Neil
Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
Another very sad event happened in the USA, but this time it didn’t happen in
Texas and the victim wasn’t a politician. On December 8, 1980, Mark David
Chapman shot John Lennon outside his apartment near Central Park in New
York. When I was young, I loved the Beatles. It seemed to me that part of my
youth died that day.
Finally, the last event of the century was on the last day of the century, 31
December 1999. There were Millennium celebrations all over the world. In
London, there was a fantastic atmosphere. It was like the end of the war.

4. Talking about inventions and
discoveries in the 20th century
In 1903, the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright
made their first flight in an aeroplane.
On March 25, 1925, John Logie Baird invented moving
images. People saw these moving images for the first time
at Selfridge’s department store in London.
In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin.
It all started on April 3, 1973, on 6th Avenue in New York
City near the Hilton Hotel. Martin Cooper made the first
mobile phone call.
In March 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World
Wide Web. The World Wide Web and the Internet changed
our lives.