1. Reading comprehension

a) Look quickly at the text. What the connection between the two pictures?

b) Read the text. Write down everything that you know about the man.

c) How many of the things mentioned in the text you can find in the pictures?

d) Why is Otzi important?

e) What do you know about Stone Age?

2. Past simple and Past continuous

1. Complete these sentences from the text.

1. In 1991, two German tourists ___________ along a path in the Alps, when they _____________ something in the ice.

2. They _____________ and ___________.

2. What are the two tenses in the sentences?

3. Why are sentences different in the first sentence but the same in the second tense?

4. Complete the names of these ideas in this diagram.

5. For each tense, find examples of these forms in the text.

• An affirmative statement

• A negative statement

• A question

6. Use your examples. How do we make each form?

7. For the past simple find examples of:

• The verb to be

• Two irregular verbs

• Two regular verbs.

3. Complete this part of an interview with an archaeologist. Put the verbs in brackets into the past continuous or past simple:

4. Use the clues and the information in the text. Continue the interview:

Example:

Interviewer: How old was Otzi?

Archaeologist: he was about forty-five years old.

• When/he/live?

• Where/he/ came from?

• What/his job?

• What/ he/do/when/he/die?

• What/he/wear?

• He/carry/anything?

• Why/ you/surprise /about the axe?

Name: …………………………………….. Date: ……/……/……

Class: ………… Number: ……….. Evaluation: ………….

In1991, two German tourists were walking along a path in the Alps, when they saw something in the ice. They stopped and looked. It was part of a body. They thought it was a climber, but they were wrong. They weren't looking at a body of a modern climber. This body was over 5.000 years old. They were looking at a man from the Stone Age.

Who was he? What he was doing in the mountains? How did he die? Did he fall or did somebody kill him?

Archaeologists from all over the world wanted to study the Iceman.

Otzi, as the archaeologists called him, came from Italy and he was about 45 years old. He lived about 3350 BC - at the time people in Egypt were building the pyramids. We know that he was a farmer because there were pieces of corn in his clothes. He was probably taking his sheep and goats into the mountains when he died.

Otzi has changed our ideas about the Stone Age. Before Otzi,

Archaeologists thought that cooper didn't arrive in Europe until

2000 BC. Otzi, however, was carrying a copper axe 1.300 years

earlier. He was also carrying a bow and arrows, a knife and

some wooden tools. He was wearing warm, waterproof clothes

and leather boots. Things show that Stone Age people were a

lot more sophisticated than we thought.

The past ___________ tense.

An incomplete action in the past

The past _________ tense.

A completed action in the past.

They were walking along a path

They saw something

Interviewer: How _______ Otzi __________ (die)?

Archaeologist: Well, we don't really know.

Interviewer: _______ he _________ (have) an accident?

Archaeologist: No, he _________ (not fall). We think that it ________(happen) like this. One day, he _________(take) his animals into the mountains, when he _________ (stop) for a rest. First, he _______ (make) a fire, then he ___________ (sit down). While, he __________ (wait), he __________ (fall) asleep and he _________ (freeze) to death in his sleep. The snow ________ (cover) his body until the tourists _________ (find) him five thousand years latter.

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