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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 werent 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.
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?
1. In 1991, two German tourists ___________ along a path in the Alps, when
they _____________ something in the ice.
2. They _____________ and ___________.
A completed action
The past _________ tense. in the past.
An affirmative statement
A negative statement
A question
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?