ACTIVITIES

Course: .................. Teacher: ......................................................................

METHODOLOGY

Name: ..................................................................................................................

14. Our past

1. Look at the photos. Decide which stage of life each person is in:
1. Childhood

2. Adolescence

3. Old age

4. Adulthood

2.

Write down how many years the following measures of time have:
Decade

...........................................

3.

Century

Millennium

...........................................

...........................................

Complete the table and give an example of the type of source that
is used in each case:
Description

Written
source

Every day I write down my homework in my

agenda so that I remember when I get home.

Non-written
source

Example

Agenda

My mother remembers what happened when

she was a girl thanks to her personal diary.
Grandparents always tell us stories about when
we were young children.
Thanks to the videos that my father made, I
can remember the dances that we performed
at the end of the school year.

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DIDACTIC RESOURCES

REINFORCEMENT

1. Choose a partner and draw a timeline of the most important

moments in their life:
Before you begin carry out the following questionnaire on the person
chosen. Fill it in, cut it out and stick it on a separate piece of paper:

Name and Surnames: ..............................................................................

Date of Birth: ............................................................................................
Place of Birth: ..........................................................................................
Parents names and date of birth .............................................
.................................................................................................................
Does he/she have a brother or a sister? When was he or she born? ....
.................................................................................................................
An important event in his or her life and the year it happened:
...............................................................................................................
...............................................................................................................

Complete the following timeline with the most important dates in the
life of your partner. Then cut it out and stick it below the questionnaire.

REINFORCEMENT

SOLUTIONS

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
METHODOLOGY
UNIT 14

AND
FOR

DIDACTIC RESOURCES

14. Our past

Solutions to the Activities
REINFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
1. Look at the photos. Decide ...
SOLUTION: The answers are:

A decade is ten years.

A century is one hundred years.
A millennium is one thousand years.

Top left photo: Adulthood.

3. Complete the table and give an example...

Top right photo: Old age.

SOLUTION: See Figure 1.

Bottom left photo: Childhood.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Bottom right photo: Adolescence.

1. Choose a partner

2. Write down how many years...

SOLUTION:

SOLUTION: The answers are:

Pairwork activity.

FIGURE 1

Description

Written
source

Non-written
source

Every day I write down my homework in my

agenda so that I remember when I get home.

Agenda

My mother remembers what happened when she

was a girl thanks to her personal diary.

Personal diary

Example

Grandparents always tell us stories about when

we were young children.

Oral testimony

Thanks to the videos that my father made, I can

remember the dances that we performed at the
end of the school year.

Videos

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DEGREE OF CONSOLIDATION

Help the student

asks for

Help the student

receives

Difficulties
observed

Possible
solutions

Not consolidated

With difficulty

Consolidated

Not consolidated

With difficulty

Consolidated

Not consolidated

With difficulty

Consolidated

Not consolidated

With difficulty

Date

Consolidated

Recognise the
Understand how
Identify units to
Appreciate the
stages of
life has
measure
value of
our
changed
time and
our
personal
over
create a
historical
history
time
timeline
heritage