Conversation Activity Pack: History

This activity pack comes with 8 different activities:

• a listening comprehension activity: Why Statues Are Being Torn Down on page 2, and a discussion: ”What is history?” on pages 3 and 4;

• a speaking activity about contemporary history on page 5 to complete in pairs or small groups, then present and discuss as a class;

• a speaking activity about inventions of the 20th and 21st centuries on page 6 to complete in pairs or small groups, then present and discuss as a class;

• a speaking activity: “What if it had been me?” on page 7 to discuss the reactions and feelings of people who witnessed certain historical events;

• a speaking activity about the changes in different aspects of our lives on page 8 to complete in pairs or small groups, then present and discuss as a class;

• a speaking activity about alternate history on page 9 to complete in small groups. For face-to-face lessons, the activity statements are to be printed, cut out and randomly distributed to each group or all placed on the table for students to choose;

• a speaking and writing activity to complete individually, in pairs or in small groups: “Time-traveling Journalist” on page 10, one sheet to be given to each group, with cards to cut and distribute on page 11 presenting different historical figures (one should be distributed at random to each group or all placed on the table to let the learners choose one);

• a vocabulary list about historical events and people on page 12;

• corrections for the Listening Comprehension Activity on page 13.