Prof. Mariluz Maldonado Rodríguez Social Sciences 2º ESO

1. Read and listen to your language assistant:

ABROAD:

A foreign country.

ASTRONOMY:

Science that studies the celestial bodies.

BILL OF EXCHANGE:

Document in which a person promised to pay another person a sum of money on a specific date.

CANVAS:

Material for painting on, normally made of cotton or linen.

CARAVEL:

Fast, llight ship with square and triangular sails that can carry up to 60 tones.

CARTOGRAPHY:

Science of the study and drawing of maps.

COUNTER-REFORMATION:

Internal reform of the Catholic Church to combat the rise of Protestantism.

DIPLOMACY:

Work of people responsible for the international relations of a country or territory.

FRESCO:

Technique in which colours are dissolved in water and applied to a wet plaster wall.

HIDALGO:

Member of the Spanish lower nobility. Some were wealthy but others lived in poverty.

HUMANISM:

Intellectual movement that admired the Classical Age, considered human beings to be centre of the universe and used reason to explain reality.

INQUISITION:

Ecclesiastical tribunal, that persecuted false converts (people who onverted to Christianity but continued to practise their old religion).

MADONNA:

Italian word used to describe representations of the Virgin and Child.

MYTHOLOGICAL:

Of stories about the gods and heroes of the ancient world.

OIL PAINTING:

Technique in which colours are diluted in oil.

PAPAL STATES:

Territory under the political authority of the pope.

REFORMATION:

Religious movement begun by Martin Luther in the 16th century as a result of corruption in the Church. It led to the split of the Church into Protestantism and Catholicism.

RENAISSANCE:

15th and 16th century artistic style inspired by the classical art of Ancient Greece and Rome.

TEMPERA:

Tecnique in which colours are diluited in glue or egg yolk.

THEOCENTRISM:

Philosophical concept that considers God to be the central focus of all things.

TRIBUTE:

Tax.

Prof. Mariluz Maldonado Rodríguez Social Sciences 2º ESO

2. Translate all the vocabulary given into Spanish. You can ask to your language assistant.

ABROAD:

ASTRONOMY:

BILL OF EXCHANGE:

CANVAS:

CARAVEL:

CARTOGRAPHY:

COUNTER-REFORMATION:

DIPLOMACY:

FRESCO:

HIDALGO:

HUMANISM:

INQUISITION:

MADONNA:

MYTHOLOGICAL:

OIL PAINTING:

PAPAL STATES:

REFORMATION:

RENAISSENCE:

TEMPERA:

THEOCENTRISM:

TRIBUTE:

WOOD PANEL:

3. Look at the following pictures and talk with your partner. What are these pictures? What do these pictures have in common?

PICTURE A PICTURE B PICTURE C

4. Find the twelve hidden words in the following alphabet soup.

C D E M S I N A M U H

D A B R O A D O E O I

I A R J O U S C I N D

P I L A O B B S A T A

L A P E V T R E R A L

O S I S T E T R T H G

M A D O N N A F V O O

A S T R O N O M Y L D

C J S E R F A O S E O

Y I R I F C A N V A S

N O I T I S I U Q N I

Solution: CARAVEL, HUMANISM, INQUISITION, ABROAD, HIDALGO, CANVAS, ASTRONOMY, DIPLOMACY, MADONNA, FRESCO.

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