Year 2005 : a selection of 24 Major Events - Free

[Pages:1]Year 2005 : a selection of 24 Major Events

Read the grid below

1- Which tense are you going to use to talk about these events ? present preterit present perfect 2- Make one sentence for each event 3- Then find the missing events : complete the grid and make sentences 4- Now you want to select particular events : which tense are you going to use? preterit present perfect 5- Complete the sentences : I think the happiest event ......................................................................................................... In my opinion, the saddest event ................................................................................................ To my mind, the most moving event ............................................................................................ According to me ................................................................................................................... 6- Write the new vocabulary in your index book and learn it ! 7- Visit this French site on Year 2005 :

DATE January 27th February 15th March 3rd March 24th April 2nd April 6th April 27th May 6th May 29th June 7th June 12th June 26th July 6th July 7th July 28th August 6th August 9th August 29th September 12th October 8th October 27th November 21st December 13th Dedcember 19th

EVENT Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation

Steve Fossett around the world non-stop in 67 hours 100th anniversary of Jules Verne's death (Amiens)

Airbus A380 first flight Tony Blair, PM again ! France 1,200th day of Ingrid Betencourt's detention in Columbia Florence Aubenas and translator

Attacks in London End of war in Ireland Hiroshima bomb explosion Discovery Louisiana Israeli soldiers - Gaza Pakistan earthquake France German Chancellor American prisoner Stanley Williams, CA World population = 6.5 Billion

VERB to commemorate to demonstrate to fly to celebrate

to inaugurate to elect to vote to commemorate to come back / to free

to take place to declare to commemorate to come back to sweep / to take place to leave to hit

to become to execute to estimate

2012 Olympic Games in London Pope John Paul II's death at the age of 84 years old Lyc?ens in the streets against the Bac Reform UNO is 60 years old ! Prince Rainier III's death at the age of 81 years old

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