Vocabulary quiz 5 On screen 1

 1. The ……… of England in 1605 was James I.

 A famous ……… starred in the film.

 The ……… plants crops in his fields every spring.

 We have one more ……… before the first show tomorrow night.

 Neil Armstrong was the first ……… to walk on the Moon.

 My brother is a computer programmer and he ……… software for a bank.

 Diane is a ……… . She takes care of sick people in the hospital.

 Alexander Fleming ……… penicillin in 1928.

 We celebrate Bonfire Night on 5^th November thanks ……… Guy Fawkes.

 The Gunpowder Plot was a plan to ……… the Houses of Parliament.

 John is a ……… and he writes music for films and TV shows.

 The sculptor makes amazing ……… of famous people.

 People in Britain ……… Bonfire Night with bonfires and fireworks.

 Nurses and doctors ……… for sick people.

 On New Year’s Eve people set off ……… .

 Queen Elizabeth is the head of the ……… Family in Britain.

 It is better to ……… the truth if you don’t want to get into trouble.

 Albert Einstein is famous for his ……… of relativity.

 They built the statue to honour a(n) ……… hero from World War II.

 My brother ……… medicine at university and now he is a doctor.

CALENDARS

These days, everybody uses calendars to note important dates like birthdays, but when did we start measuring time?

Until recently, experts believed that people in the Near East made the 1) ………………..……. calendar 5,000 years ago.

 However, they then 2) ………………..……. an ancient site in Scotland from over 10,000 years ago. At the site, there were 12 holes in the ground.

Scientists think that people 3) ………………..……. them to track the movement of the Moon and measure time. It’s an exciting discovery because it shows that people had calendars many centuries ago.