Unit 4, Number 17, Exercise 3.0:03
Listen to the text and say which of the statements are true, false or not mentioned in the text.0:08
Stone Age man in Britain, the British Isles were not always the green, pleasant land in which people live today.0:17
Many thousands of years ago, they were not even islands, and England was joined to France by dry land.0:27
In those far off times, no one lived there because the land was covered with ice hundreds of feet thick.0:33
Then slowly, the climate became warmer and the ice melted, leaving the bare rock underneath.0:40
Many hundreds of years passed before the land was fit for men to live.0:47
The earliest man ever to live there came across the dry land from France.0:51
Those men and women were very different from the men and women today.0:55
Those people were able to talk and think.0:59
They were only in a very simple way.1:02
They knew how to make some sort of clothes for themselves out of the skins of animals.1:04
But they had not yet learned how to build even the simplest houses.1:08
They lived in caves and knew how to make fire, probably by rubbing dry sticks together.1:12
They had no iron or steel knives, nor had they any pottery.1:18
About six or seven thousand years ago, some new people came across the dry land into England.1:23
We call them Neolithic people, and we know that they were much more intelligent than the men who lived in caves.1:30
The cavemen's brain was underdeveloped.1:38
The Neolithic men were more clever.1:42
When they saw things happening, they wanted to know why they happened.1:46
This desire to find out why things happened was the beginning of all civilization.1:51
Those people built huts, used bows and arrows to hunt.1:56
They began to use canoes to travel and simple tools.2:01
Those people were farmers, too, and they began to grow some sort of corn, out of which they made bread, and they discovered how to make pottery.2:05
They were not savages.2:16
They were the dim beginnings of the modern civilization in which all of us live.2:18
We call them Stone Age men.2:23
We give them this name because they made their tools and weapons of flint.2:26
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