1 | Look at the timeline. Write the options to complete the sentence. Then read the text quickly to check your ideas. In the timeline, I think there is information about …
• clothes • dates | • languages • objects | • people • places

2 |  |  | 4.07 Read the text and listen. Match 1–3 with a–c to make sentences about the text.
1 The history of storytelling 2 There were many new ways to tell stories 3 New technologies help people | a in the 20th century. b started a long time ago. c tell stories in different ways.

WORDS IN CONTEXT

3 | Complete the sentences with the words below. • caves • share • storytelling • written 1 … is the activity of writing or telling stories. 2 Is this an oral or a … story? 3 In prehistory2, people lived in … . 4 I don’t want it all for me. I want to … it.

4 | Read the text again. Number the events in order from 2–8.
a cave paintings 1 b first written story c paper puppets | d the internet e the cinema f the printing press | g the television h video games

5 | Choose the correct options. 1 People in prehistory painted their stories in different countries / one country. 2 People used paper / stones to write the first written story in history. 3 The inventor of the printing press was from Germany / Greece. 4 There were / weren’t theatres in the 15th century. 5 In the 19th century, people watched / didn’t watch films at home. 6 People invented the videotape and the 6 internet in the same year / in different years.

In the past, people listened to stories with their friends and families. Now, we watch films and TV series alone. What is good about that? Is there anything bad? 1 The time before people began to write | 1 What is the video about? 2 Say two things that the actors can do.