2. Cross the odd word out.
1) to explore, to discover, to navigate, to study,
2) to occupy, to settle, to be located, to stretch;
3) a coast, a shore, a bank, a beach;
4) big, huge, narrow, enormous, vast.
3. Open the brackets and read the text using the correct word.
Jamestown was the first English (settlement/village) in America. It
was founded/named) after the British king James 1 in 1607. Captain
Smith (brought/navigated) a little group of people to explore/settle)
on the new continent. They wanted to (find/sell) gold and silver and
to become rich As the first settlers of Jamestown didn't want to build
warm (shops/houses) and (gather/grow) hervest, they began to die -
in ones, in twos, in dozens. The colony didn't survive (He Bruna)
because the people were interested only in (new lands/money).
4. There is a famous Disney film Pocakontas which tolls about the
exploration of Americs by the English. Mateh the questions and
the answers and learn more about the history of America
1. Who was Pocahontas?
2. What is the girl famous for?
3. Was she in love with
Captain Smith?
4. What was her husband?
5. Where did she travel with
her husband?
a) He was a tobacco planter.
b) She died of smallpox (ocna)
at the age of 22.
c) She was the daughter of the
chief Powhatan
d) She travelled to London, to
the court of James I.
e) She saved the life of Captain
Smith when the Indians
wanted to kill him.
f) No, she married John Rolf
o) Yes, her son Thomas Rolf
same back to Virginia when
he grew up
6. Did she have any children?
7. What happened to
Pocahontas in 16179