Discoveries and Ancestral Journeys Listening Quiz

A radish is the ______ of a plant that grows under the ground.

I will reward you for your ______ because you have improved a lot.

Ayman planted a ______ that grew into a beautiful flower.

The first ______ of settlers is the first group of people to inhabit an area.

Mum closed the gate because she didn't want the baby to ______ onto the street.

When Nour saw her teacher in the supermarket, she ______ towards her to say hello.

Our earliest ancestors just ate fruit, roots and seeds in the forests of Africa. But one day, about a million years ago, they wandered out of the forests and into the African lands. They discovered many types of animals there and started to eat them! Once they began to eat meat, they could travel further and further across the lands because food was always available for them. Our ancestors' progress was very ______, however.

They only advanced 10 km in each generation - that's about two ______ a day!

Trails of bone and stone tools have shown that it took them about 25,000 years to leave Africa and explore as far as South-East ______.

By 250,000 years ago, our ancestors lived in Africa, Asia, and ______.

About 11,300 years ago, the world's climate became very ______.

People and animals walked across the ice from Asia into North America, but it took them another 5,500 years to reach South ______!

Did your journey to school take a ______ time today, or not?

Listen and find out about a journey your ancestors made. How ______ did they travel?

Try to guess the meanings of the words: root, seed, progress, generation, pace, trail, continent, to ______, to advance

Which two important discoveries helped our ancestors to cross ______?

Look at a world map and find the Bering ______.

Discuss as a class how far students have to travel to get to school and if it takes a ______ time.