En la historia de la humanidad sucedieron acontecimientos de gran importancia que cambiaron el mundo. Observa las oraciones del cuadro .

Ingls

Century Siglo

Couple Par

Travelers Viajeros

Chickenpox Varicela

Several Varios

Ingls

Brought about Trajo

Took place Ocurri

Findings Descubrimientos

Aircraft Aeronave

Vocabulary

Eventos importantes en el mundo.Siglos XIX y XX

Eventos histricos en el mundo y en mi pas

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la lectura.

Can you imagine life in the past? What was life like? How did everyday life become as it is today?A couple of centuries ago telephone didnt exist, people didnt have a TV. Because there was no electricity, families used candles to light their houses. Travelers took several days or even months to go from one place to another and people died of chickenpox. Life was dierent! How did things change? Human curiosity and human needs brought about changes. Many great inventions took place during 19th and 20th centuries: light bulbs, the rst telephone and TV, the rst aircraft and gasoline cars, the rst computer and Internet. These ndings were the base of inventions that made our lives easier.

Century Event Exact year

19th

Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. 1838

Alexander Graham Bell improved telephone. 1876

Thomas Alva Edison created the lightbulb. 1879

John L. Baird invented television. 1885

Augusto and Louis Lumiere popularized cinema. 1889

Marie Curie studied radioactivity and found polonium. 1898

20th

The Wright brothers made the first flight in an aircraft. 1903

Albert Einstein developed the relativity theory. 1915

Karl Benz built the first gasoline car. 1925

Alexander Fleming found penicillin. 1928

Konrad Zuse created the first computer. 1941

Tim Burtons-Lee brougth us the World Wide Web. 1989

Escribe los verbos en pasado en la siguiente tabla y busca su signi icado en el diccionario.

Verbos que terminan en -ed Significado Otros verbos Significado

The 20th century. 8 events in

Mexico's history

Mexican Revolution started in 1910.

Lzaro Crdenas announced the nationalization of Mexicos petroleum reserves on March 21st, 1938.

Vasconcelos created the Ministry of Public Education on October 12th, 1921.

Women got political participation rights on October 17th 1953..

Students began a protest towards democracy and the goberment repressed the meeting in October 2 nd, 1968.

In 1985 society experienced an 8.1 earthquake that damaged Mexico City.

After the devaluation of the peso in December 1994, Mexico fell into a financial crisis.

Eventos importantes en Mxico. Siglo XXEn Mxico, qu eventos histricos sucedieron en el siglo XX? A continuacin, se mencionan algunos:

History of scientific eventsin 19th and 20th centuries

Verbo irregular Pasado simple Significado en espaol

do did hacer

have had tener

be was / were ser/estar

build built construir

bring brought llevar/traer

become became convertirse

begin began empezar

buy bought comprar

catch caught atrapar

choose chose escoger/elegir

come came venir

drink drank beber

drive drove conducir

eat ate comer

find found encontrar

forget forgot olvidar

get got tomar/recibir

give gave dar

go went ir

know knew saber/conocer

lose lost perder

make made hacer

run ran correr

see saw ver

sleep slept dormir

speak spoke hablar

take took tomar

teach taught ensear

tell told contar/decir

think thought pensar

win won ganar

write wrote escribir

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Pasado simpleVerbos regulares

Se usa el pasado simple para hablar de situaciones o eventos ocurridos y concluidos en el pasado. Algunos verbos en pasado son regulares y terminan en ed

Verbs ending in consonant ed, invent + ed = inventedVerbs ending in e, add -d change + d = changedVerbs ending in consonant + y, use ied study = studied

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Verbos irregulares

Los verbos irregulares en pasado simple se escriben de forma distinta. Algunos ejemplos son:

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