Basic Needs

['hist(4)ri] -ries[-z] Everyday Expressions n. History repeats itself. n. I am now doing a research on Shakespeares histories. n. All that is distant history. n. the history of the company n.

historian historic

Linguistic Skill

Useful Phrases --- medical history --- to distort history --- the history of violent crime --- to make history

Communicating Clearly

Street Talks A: Do you like music? B: Just so so. I like Shakespeares histories. A: Whats wrong with you and Sally? B: Tom, thats all (old) history. Dont make a move! If this gun goes off, youre history! Emergency doctors didnt have these patients medical histories at hand.

Cultural Focus

Transcripts

Sleepless in Seattle is history. Why relive an event that to young Americans is ancient history?

Proverbs History repeats itself. History is fiction with the truth left out.

Quotations Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays,"Of Studies" (1597-1625).