Reading (first term)

Read the text. Choose if the statemente is TRUE or FALSE.

A Trip to the Past

One of the best summer holiday trips I’ve ever made was when my friends and I were still students. We hiked the old wagon trail road to California and camped along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

We decided to travel like the first pioneers did and explore life as it was 120 years ago. The inspiration came from our teacher. He made us read books such as “The Journals of Lewis and Clark”, who were the first Americans employed by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the continental United States and find a way to California. We did research on the technology and equipment available 120 years ago, and then made an agreement not to take anything invented after the year 1870 except very good maps. We chose the year 1870 because by then people had discovered tinned food, which could keep the five of us from starving. But just in case we took some fishing rods to catch fresh Rocky Mountain fish!

We left on a sunny day in late June. We were prepared for many possible situations – we knew it gets cold at night and that it’s hard to find firewood in the dark. There were no hot showers for us at the end of the day and we could hear strange sounds at night. One night we saw a mountain lion, the next day it snowed in the middle of the night, and then when the snow melted there was mud everywhere.

After about a week, we got to California – tired but happy that we could be so close to nature. We enjoyed all the fresh air, sleeping under the stars and swimming and fishing in fresh water lakes. It was hard to go back to our school desks – we wanted to return to the year 1870!

The friends went on a trip because of the teacher.

Read the text. Choose if the statemente is TRUE or FALSE.

A Trip to the Past

One of the best summer holiday trips I’ve ever made was when my friends and I were still students. We hiked the old wagon trail road to California and camped along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

We decided to travel like the first pioneers did and explore life as it was 120 years ago. The inspiration came from our teacher. He made us read books such as “The Journals of Lewis and Clark”, who were the first Americans employed by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the continental United States and find a way to California. We did research on the technology and equipment available 120 years ago, and then made an agreement not to take anything invented after the year 1870 except very good maps. We chose the year 1870 because by then people had discovered tinned food, which could keep the five of us from starving. But just in case we took some fishing rods to catch fresh Rocky Mountain fish!

We left on a sunny day in late June. We were prepared for many possible situations – we knew it gets cold at night and that it’s hard to find firewood in the dark. There were no hot showers for us at the end of the day and we could hear strange sounds at night. One night we saw a mountain lion, the next day it snowed in the middle of the night, and then when the snow melted there was mud everywhere.

After about a week, we got to California – tired but happy that we could be so close to nature. We enjoyed all the fresh air, sleeping under the stars and swimming and fishing in fresh water lakes. It was hard to go back to our school desks – we wanted to return to the year 1870!

They didn’t investigate life in California.

Read the text. Choose if the statemente is TRUE or FALSE.

A Trip to the Past

One of the best summer holiday trips I’ve ever made was when my friends and I were still students. We hiked the old wagon trail road to California and camped along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

We decided to travel like the first pioneers did and explore life as it was 120 years ago. The inspiration came from our teacher. He made us read books such as “The Journals of Lewis and Clark”, who were the first Americans employed by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the continental United States and find a way to California. We did research on the technology and equipment available 120 years ago, and then made an agreement not to take anything invented after the year 1870 except very good maps. We chose the year 1870 because by then people had discovered tinned food, which could keep the five of us from starving. But just in case we took some fishing rods to catch fresh Rocky Mountain fish!

We left on a sunny day in late June. We were prepared for many possible situations – we knew it gets cold at night and that it’s hard to find firewood in the dark. There were no hot showers for us at the end of the day and we could hear strange sounds at night. One night we saw a mountain lion, the next day it snowed in the middle of the night, and then when the snow melted there was mud everywhere.

After about a week, we got to California – tired but happy that we could be so close to nature. We enjoyed all the fresh air, sleeping under the stars and swimming and fishing in fresh water lakes. It was hard to go back to our school desks – we wanted to return to the year 1870!

They chose the year 1870 because they could take some tins with them.