Working the past simple tense with different powerful events from our world history.

1. POWERFUL EVENTS
Experience is the best teacher

2. Universidad de Chile students threw weight behind school occupation
TUESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2012 22:46
WRITTEN BY DAVID PEDIGO
Chile’s most powerful student organization voted to support the occupation of
the main campus by wide majority.
The Student Federation of the Universidad de Chile (FECH) voted Tuesday night to support
the occupation of the university’s main campus in downtown Santiago, which was
occupied by a small group of students on last Friday. “With a quorum of 89 percent of
university departments and 74 percent approval, the occupation of the main campus was
ratified,”
FECH President Gabriel Boric said via Twitter.
Only 2 percent voted against, according to
FECH.
The vote came at a critical time for Chile’s
student movement. While high school
students occupied schools throughout
Santiago, the occupation of the Universidad
de Chile, however, holds special significance
as the first university that hosted an
officially-sanctioned occupation, or “toma.

3. A DOG NAMED
"LEAO" SAT FOR
TWO CONSECUTIVE
DAYS AT THE GRAVE
OF HER OWNER,
WHO DIED IN THE
DISASTROUS
LANDSLIDES NEAR
RIO DE JANIERO ON
JANUARY 15, 2011.

4. THE 1968 OLYMPICS
BLACK POWER SALUTE:
AFRICAN AMERICAN
ATHLETES TOMMIE
SMITH AND JOHN
CARLOS RAISED THEIR
FISTS IN A GESTURE OF
SOLIDARITY AT THE
1968 OLYMPIC GAMES.
AUSTRALIAN SILVER
MEDALIST PETER
NORMAN WORE AN
OLYMPIC PROJECT FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS BADGE
IN SUPPORT OF THEIR
PROTEST. BOTH
AMERICANS WERE
EXPELLED FROM THE
GAMES AS A RESULT.

5. SISTERS POSED FOR THE SAME
PHOTO THREE SEPARATE TIMES,
YEARS APART.

6. JEWISH PRISONERS
REALIZED OF THEIR
LIBERATION FROM
AN INTERNMENT
CAMP "DEATH
TRAIN" NEAR THE
ELBE IN 1945.

7. CHRISTIANS PROTECTED MUSLIMS
DURING PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF THE
UPRISINGS IN CAIRO, EGYPT, IN 2011.

8. OWNER FOUND HIS DOG AFTER
THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN IN 2011.

9. AUSTRALIAN SCOTT JONES KISSED HIS CANADIAN GIRLFRIEND ALEX THOMAS
AFTER SHE WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND BY A POLICE OFFICER'S RIOT
SHIELD IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. CANADIANS RIOTED AFTER THE
VANCOUVER CANUCKS LOST THE STANLEY CUP TO THE BOSTON BRUINS.

10. CONNIE KOPELOV, 84 HUGGED PHYLLIS SIEGEL, 76, AFTER
BECOMING THE FIRST SAME-SEX COUPLE THAT GOT MARRIED AT
THE MANHATTAN CITY CLERK'S OFFICE IN 2011.

11. HAROLD WHITTLES HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME
EVER AFTER A DOCTOR PLACED AN EARPIECE IN HIS
LEFT EAR.

12. A FRENCH CIVILIAN CRIED IN
DESPAIR AS NAZIS OCCUPIED PARIS
DURING WORLD WAR II.

13. POSED
PROTECTED
RAISED
SAT
DIED
WORE
REALIZED

14. CRIED
KISSED
RIOTED
HUGGED
FOUND
HEARD
GOT MARRIED