1901
Queen Victoria
dies, bringing
the Victorian
Era to an end.
1914
The first World War
begins
g
following
g the
assassination of
Archduke Ferdinand
of Austria.
1922
The BBC is formed
and starts daily radio
broadcasts.
1912
The Titanic
sinks.
1918
The first World
War ends.
1926
John Logie Baird demonstrates
the world’s first television.
1939
1933
Adolf Hitler comes to
power in Germany.
1940
1945
Winston Churchill
becomes
Prime Minister.
World War
Two ends.
1948
1953
The National Health Service is
set up to provide free health care.
The coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II
takes place in
Westminster Abbey.
Britain and
France
declare war
on Germany
and World
War Two
begins.
1955
1957
ITV, the first
commercial
television
station is
launched.
1959
Britain’s first motorway,
the M1, opens.
1969
Man walks
on the moon.
Russia launches
Sputnik,
the first satellite
to orbit the earth.
1966
England wins
the World Cup.
1971
Decimalisation begins.
1973
Britain
B
it i jjoins
i s
the
European
Community.
1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the
first woman Prime Minister.
1981
1985
Prince Charles marries Lady
Diana Spencer.
The Live Aid
concerts raise
money for
victims of
famine in
Ethiopia.
1989
1991
Sir Tim Berners Lee invents
the World Wide Web.
The first
website goes
online.
1994
1997
Princess Diana
dies in a car
crash in Paris.
The Channel Tunnel opens.
2000
Britain celebrates the start of
a new Millennium.
Look
Armistice
Kennedy
Mussolini
Soldiers
Assassination
Kristallnacht
Versailles
Gandhi
Century
Hiroshima
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Check and Correct
1. What year did Queen Victoria die?
2. What year was the Russian revolution?
3. What year did Ms Wheeler leave school?
4. What year was the atomic bomb dropped on Japan?
5. What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
6. What year did Titanic sink?
7. What year was Kennedy assassinated?
8. What year did World War One begin?
9. What year did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?
10.What year did Princess Diana die?
11.What year was the Battle of the Somme?
12. What year was the Battle of Britain?
13. What year did the Cold War begin?
14. What year was Danny Knowles born?
15. What year did World War One end?
16. What year did Elvis record his first song?
17. What year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
18. What year did England win the World Cup?
19. What year were American troops sent into Vietnam?
20. What year did you start secondary school?
21. What year did World War Two begin?
22. What year did the Viet Cong defeat the French?
23. What year did the Falklands War begin?
24. What year did Hitler become leader of the Nazis?
25. When was the first Wembley Cup Final?
26. What year was the Queen’s silver jubilee?
27. What year did Take That split and the Spice girls form?
28. What year were President Regan and the Pope both shot?
29. What year was the Watergate scandal?
30. What year did Elizabeth II become Queen?
31. What year was the film Forrest Gump filmed?
32. What year was the Russian satellite Sputnik launched?
33. What year was the first talking movie made?
34. What year did Maradona claim ‘the hand of God’
35. What year did Birds Eye sell the first fish fingers?
36. When was the first episode of East Enders?
37. What World Cup year was Beckham sent off?
38. What year was the Triple Entente signed?
39. What year did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?
40. What year was Thomas the Tank Engine first televised?
What was life like at the beginning of the twentieth century ?
I.WHAT COULD PEOPLE DO ? WHAT COULDN’T THEY DO ?
Look at the pictures and say what people could do and what they couldn’t do.
Example : They couldn’t travel by planes.
Can you find other examples ? Could everybody ( children, the poor , the rich,
men , women) do the same things ?
1 6 5 4
2 3
7 8
Cross the Atlantic
Opened in 1863
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LIFE WAS MUCH HARDER AT THAT TIME !!!!!
II. WHAT DID PEOPLE HAVE TO DO ?
At that time life was much different because a lot of the things you use now
didn’t exist in most houses, so people HAD TO manage in other ways.
Complete the sentences using THAT’ WHY HAD TO and the words illustrated
by the drawings
There was no running water, ---------------------------------------------------------There was no electricity,-------------------------------------------------------------There were no washing machines----------------------------------------------------There was no central heating---------------------------------------------------------There were no motor cars------------------------------------------------------------
At that time life was much different because a lot of the things you use now
didn’t exist in most houses, so people HAD TO manage in other ways.
Complete the sentences using THAT’ WHY, HAD TO and the words illustrated
by the drawings
There was no running water, ---------------------------------------------------------There was no electricity,-------------------------------------------------------------There were no washing machines----------------------------------------------------There was no central heating---------------------------------------------------------There were no motor cars------------------------------------------------------------
Who’s ((s)he? Who are
e they?
Wh
here’s (s)he frrom?
Wh
hat did (s)he / they do?
His nam
me is _________
_____.
_______.
He is from ________
________.
He was _________
His nam
me is _________
_____.
He is from ________
_______.
He was _________
________.
They arre ___________
_____.
They are from _____
_______.
The
ey were ______
_________.
Her nam
me is _________
_____.
She iss from _______
_______.
She
e was ________
________.
His nam
me is _________
_____.
_______.
He is from ________
________.
He was _________
W
Why’s (s)he so
o famous?
What else do you know
Franklin Delano
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 –
newly established Manhattan
Mother Teresa (born Agnes
Mohandas Karamchand
Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 -
18 April 1955) was a German-
Project, resulted in the U.S.
Gonxha Bojaxhiu, 26 August
Gandhi (October 1869 – 30
April 12, 1945) was the
born theoretical physicist who
becoming the first and only country
1910 – 5 September 1997), was
January 1948) was a leader
32nd President of the United
developed the general theory of
to have nuclear weapons during
a Roman Catholic nun who started
of nationalism in British-ruled India.
States from 1933 until his death in
relativity, one of the two pillars of
the war.
the Missionaries of Charity and
He is better known as Mahatma
1945. He served as United States
modern physics
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
Gandhi. Gandhi was one of the
President longer than any other
(alongside quantum mechanics).
The Beatles were an
for her work with people. For over
most important people involved in
President.
He received the Nobel Prize in
English rock band, started
forty years, she took care of needs
the movement for the
On December 7, 1941, Japan
Physics in 1921, but not
in Liverpool, England in 1960.
of those without money, those who
independence of India. He was
launched its attack on the Pearl
for relativity. His theories of special
They were, and still are, one of the
were sick, those without parents,
a non-violent activist, who led the
Harbor military base in Hawaii. On
and general relativity are of great
most successful
and those dying
independence movement through
December 8, the United States
importance to
and influential bands in the history
in Calcutta (Kolkata).
a non-violent protest. In
Congress declared war on
many branches of physics and astr
of modern music. The members of
As the Missionaries of Charity
1947, British Indian
the Empire of Japan. After the
onomy. They have been given
the band were John
grew under Mother's leadership,
Empire became independent, and
declaration, Japan's allies,
experimental confirmation by many
Lennon (rhythm guitar), Paul
they expanded their ministry to
broke into two different countries,
Germany and Italy, declared war
experiments and observations.
McCartney (bass guitar), George
other countries. By the 1970s she
India and Pakistan. Gandhi wanted
on the United States. This brought
Einstein is well known for
Harrison (lead guitar) and Ringo
had become internationally well
independence, but did not want to
the United States fully into World
his theories about light, matter, gra
Starr (drums).
known as an advocate for the poor
split into two different countries.
War II.
vity, space, and time. His most well
After the Beatles became so
and helpless.
Instead of celebrating on
For overcoming the difficult
known equation is E = mc . It
popular in the United States, other
She did not think women had the
Independence Day, he was crying
challenges of a depression and a
means that energy and mass are
British bands, such as The Rolling
right to have abortions and said
over the division of India.
world war, historians generally
different forms of the same thing.
Stones, The Animals, The Kinks
"The greatest destroyer of peace is
Gandhi's principle of "way of truth"
consider him to be one of the best
Near the beginning of World War II,
and Gerry and the
abortion because if a mother can
has inspired other democratic and
U.S. presidents.
he warned President Franklin D.
Pacemakers had songs become
kill her own child, what is left for
anti-racist activists like Martin
Roosevelt that Germany might
hits there as well. So many British
me to kill you and you to kill me?".
Luther King, Jr. and Nelson
be developing an atomic weapon,
bands became popular after the
Mandela. Gandhi often said that
and recommended that the U.S.
Beatles' success that this time
his values were simple, based
begin nuclear weapons research.
became known in America as the
upon traditional Hindu beliefs: truth
That research, begun by a
"British Invasion".
and non-violence.
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