Unit 6: Culture

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History

Vocabulary

modern

symbol

pyramid

decoration

afterlife

Jewellery

priest

ancient

A comma in writing is like a pause inside a sentence when speaking. We use commas inside sentences. Commas separate parts of a sentence into logical elements.

How to use comma

1. Use a comma between items in a series or list.

Example They carved jade into statues, necklaces

and other jewelleries.

Example Archaeologists - scientists who study

the lives and cultures of people who lived long ago, know some things about the ancient Maya from their art and writings.

2. Use a comma if you have a phrase before the subject.

The Maya

Exercise 1

Listen and write the correct words in the blanks.

Mayan CultureThe Maya expressed their

culture with things they did and made. The Maya carved stone and made pottery. They wrote books that told their history. The Maya loved to use………. They carved jade into statues, necklaces and other ……………. Their clothing is very colorful with pictures and symbols. The Maya built palaces and buildings that looked like …………… with steps at the sides and a flat top.

jade

jewelleriess pyrami

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GovernmentA ruling family was in charge

of each Mayan city ……………. help them rule.

ClothingThe Maya wore clothes made

of cotton. On special days, the Maya wore earrings, nose rings and large bands on their ankles and wrists. Colorful …………..., feathers and ………….. ……were woven into clothing worn on these special ways.

Priests

symbols

decorations

Religion The Maya believed the gods

and an …………... They told stories to explain the world around them. Good people who died would go to heavens and bad people who died went to hells.

School and Learning Rich and ……………. Maya

learnt how to read and write from the priests and the nobles. Some learnt how to read the pries and the stars.

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Some learnt how to read the pries and the stars. Most of the Maya did not go to school and never learnt to read. They learnt how to farm and make cloth from their parents.

The Maya TodayThe Maya are an ……………

people. There are still some Maya in the world. Some of them wear …………… clothes and work in modern offices. Others continue to live in the way their ancestors did thousands of years ago.

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Complete Complete the the passage passage by pick suitable by pick suitable

pictures in the pictures in the sentences.sentences.

Activity 1Activity 1

Example:

The Maya built palaces and ________

that looked like _______ with steps

at the sides and a flat top.

Discuss about “The Maya” Discuss about “The Maya” by the request of the kingby the request of the king ( (teacherteacher).

King RequestKing RequestActivity 2Activity 2

Example: Team 1 Team 2

(Culture,…, etc.)

Student 1: The Maya carved stone and made pottery. They wrote books that told their history.Student 2: The Maya loved to use jade. Student 3: Their clothing is very colorful with pictures and symbols.

(Culture,…, etc.)

Student 1: The Maya built palaces and buildings that looked like pyramids with steps at the sides and a flat top.Student 2: They carved jade into statues, necklaces and other jewelleries.Student 3: They wrote books that told their history in the Maya carved stone.

King request(Cultur

e,…, etc.)

Activity Activity 22

Conclude the brief messages to introduce “The Maya”

Mayan Culture The Maya carved stone and made pottery. ………………………….

…………………………………..

School and Learning Most of the Maya did not go to school…………………………………………………………………………………………

ClothingColorful symbols, feathers and…………..…………………………………………..