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WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?

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A. (🎧2-01) Listen. Match each person with his or her achievement.

1. Co-founded Apple. (in __________)                                                         •     •     a. Taylor Swift

2. Walked on the moon. (in __________)                                                     •     •     b. Steve Jobs

3. Finished writing the first Harry Potter book. (in __________)                   •     •     c. Robert Ballard

4. Discovered Titanic. (in __________)                                                          •     •      d. J. K. Rowling

5. Sold a million copies of her album Red in one week. (in __________)     •     •      e. Buzz Aldrin

B. (🎧2-01) Listen again. Write the correct year next to the achievement in A.

C.Match. What categories do the facts in A belong to? Write 1-5 below. Take turns saying trivia about each topic.

Technology __________       Entertainment __________       History __________        Art & Literature __________

Steve Jobs died in 2011.

Tablets first became popular about twelve years ago.

UNIT GOALS

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

• talk about historical events;

• use the Simple Past with prepositions of time and place;

• stress the correct syllable in each word.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon