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2c Exploring the past

1 ead 
A. Read the following statements 1. People live longer today 3. People used cosmetics
and guess if they are True (T) or than they did in the past. 5,000 years ago.
False (F). Then listen, read and
check your answers. 2. People in ancient 4. Ancient Egyptians
Greece ate with forks. didn’t like cats.

Ancient Civilisations: Look for key words/phrases
to understand the main ideas.
Did you know that...?

In the ancient world, people didn’t live long. Life was
very hard in the past. In ancient Egypt, most people
lived to be 30 years old and in ancient China people
died between the ages of 22 35. For this reason, they
got married at the age of 14!

In ancient Egypt, people didn’t use to eat with forks. They
y mainly ate with their
sometime
sometimes used spoons and knives, but they mainly ate with their
e
v
, but the
s
s used spoons and kni
hands. After they ate, they washed their hands of course! Ancient
hands . A fter the y ate, the y w ashed their hands of c our se ! Ancient
s
ork
s had f
s but the
s but the
y only used them to ser
ork
y only used them to ser
e f
e f
v
v
ood. F
ork
s
ood. F
ork
s had f
eek
eek
Gr
Greeks had forks but they only used them to serve food. Forks
Gr
ope only in the 10
ur
bec ame c ommon in E ur ope only in the 10 th
bec
became common in Europe only in the 10 century. However
ommon in E
ame c
ear
ear
4,
000 y
4,000 years ago in China, some people used to eat with bones ago in China, some people used to eat with bone
4,
s ago in China, some people used to eat with bone
000 y
forks, but today chopsticks are more common.
There were cosmetics about 5,000 years ago. In ancient Egypt, women,
Ther e w er e c o smetic s about 5 , 000 y ear s ago . In ancient E gypt , w omen,
men and even children wore make-up because it was very important
to look beautiful. Eye make-up was very popular and green and black
were two of the Egyptians’ favourite colours. Roman women also wore
w er e t w o of the E gyptians ’ f a v ourite c olour s . R oman w omen also w or e
make-up. Some of the make-up in the past was poisonous!
fork spoon knife chopsticks make-up mummy
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