- •Unit VII the mauryan empire
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •II. Text VII the mauryan empire
- •II. Reading skills
- •III. Vocabulary skills
- •IV. Speaking skills
- •V. Writing skills
- •VI. Translation skills
- •Words to remember
- •Unit VIII gupta empire
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •II. Text VIII gupta empire
- •III. Reading skills
- •IV. Vocabulary skills
- •V. Speaking skills
- •VII. Writing skills
- •19. Topics for essay writing:
- •VIII. Translation skills
- •Imaginary Beasts
- •Words to remember
- •Unit IX zhous come to power
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •II. Text IX zhous come to power
- •IV. Reading skills
- •V. Vocabulary skills
- •VI. Speaking skills
- •VI. Writing skills
- •VIII. Translation skills
- •Государство Джоу
- •Words to remember
- •Unit X the greek world
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •II. Text X the greek world
- •II. Reading skills
- •III. Vocabulary skills
- •VII. Speaking skills
- •2) Ask your classmates to guess the word by your definition.
- •VIII. Writing skills
- •IX. Translation skills
- •Religion
- •Words to remember
- •Unit XI the roman empire
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •II. Text XI the roman empire
- •III. Reading skills
- •IV. Vocabulary skills
- •V. Speaking skills
- •VI. Writing skills
- •VII. Translation skills
- •Древний Рим
- •The Roman Empire
- •Words to remember
- •Unit XII neighbours of hercules
- •I. Pretext exercises
- •III. Reading skills
- •IV. Vocabulary skills
- •V. Speaking skills
- •VII. Writing skills
- •VII. Translation skills
- •The Seven Wonders of the World
- •Words to remember
VII. Speaking skills
Ex. 9. 1) Find the definitions of the following notions in the text. If you think that they are not full and exact, give the definitions of your own:
an oligarch, citizenry, democracy, autocracy, tyranny, sanctuary.
2) Ask your classmates to guess the word by your definition.
Ex. 10. Develop the ideas of Ex. 3 without looking into the text.
Ex. 11. Agree or disagree. Prove your answer:
The Cycladic islands in the Aegean saw the birth of the Mycenaean culture.
The epics of Homer were written down long after his death.
An early form of Greek was Mycenaean.
The late Iron Age is characterized by the period of depopulation and migration.
Archaic Greece was a world of separate city-states.
The diverse world of Greece was never unified.
The exploration of the human form was the central and the most enduring aspect of the Greek world.
In some city-states decisions were made by the whole citizenry and this was democracy.
In the Greek world a variety of political systems coexisted.
Autocratic regimes were as favorable to advances in philosophy, art and science as democracy had been.
The entire history of Ancient Greece is known as the Hellenistic era.
The end of the Greek political independence was marked by Alexander's death in 323 ВС.
Ex. 12. a) Answer the following questions to see if you understand every word in the text:
What was the central aspect of Greek art?
What can be regarded as typifying Greece's Classical Age?
What were the forms of coexisted political systems in Ancient Greece?
Were autocratic political regimes as favorable to advances in philosophy, art and science as democracy had been?
What assured Athens' political prominence until 404 ВС?
What types of cultures can be traced back in a large area called the Ancient Greek World?
How can you characterize the Greek World during the Iron Age?
Did the art of vase painting in Greece develop? In what form?
b) Put questions of your own to the rest of the text and ask your classmates to answer them.
Ex. 13. Make up a plan of the text, provide each point of the plan with necessary words and word combinations. Compare your plans and discuss them with your groupmates.
Ex. 14. Retell the text using your own plan and expressions from Ex. 5, 6, 13.
Ex. 15. Give the gist of the text in three or four sentences.
Ex. 16. Role play.
Choose roles and act as either a strict examiner asking questions about cultures and periods in Ancient Greece's history or as a student taking an exam.
Ex. 17. Study the table and comment on it:
3500-2000 ВС - Early Cycladic
Early Minoan
Early Helladic
2000-1500 ВС - Middle Cycladic
Middle Minoan
Middle Helladic
1500-1250 ВС - Late Minoan
Late Cycladic
1500-1300 BC - Late Helladic
1000-600 BC - Geometric period
776 BC - First recorded Olympic games at Olympia
508 BC - Reforms of Cleisthenes, birth of democracy
512-479 BC - Persian Invasion of the Greek Mainland
480 BC - Athens sacked by Persians
480 BC - battle of Salamis, Persians defeated at sea
479 BC - battle at Plataea, Persians defeated on land
447-432 BC - Parthenon constructed
c. 350 BC - Mausoleum of Halicarnassus built
323 BC - death of Alexander the Great
31 BC - battle of Actium, death of Cleopatra VII, the last of Hellenistic monarchs