Learning activity 2

Evidence: Timelines

For this evidence, we suggest you to visit:

http://ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html and follow the instructions to create
your personal time line. Once the page provides you with your timeline, you need
to identify at least 10 historical events that draw your attention and create
sentences using the past perfect and the time expressions you learned in this
learning activity. Below you will see a screenshot of what the timeline looks like.
Below are some model sentences that exemplify the product your instructor
expects from you.

Note: If there is any issue with the webpage given, do your own research on the
web about the historic milestones. Then, complete the evidence as required.

Fuente: Ourtimelines (s.f.)

Model sentences:

 When Richard Nixon was the president of the United States, I hadn’t been
born.

 I had already been born when Gerald Ford became the president of the
United States.

 The first genetically engineered product had been produced by the time I
was 9.

 By the time I was 5, Margaret Thatcher hadn’t become the Prime Minister in
the UK yet.
Note: once you finish writing the sentences, create an autobiographical
composition where you use them all.
Example:
I was born on October 4th, 1974. When Richard Nixon was the president of the
United States, I hadn’t been born. He was the president of the United States
before I had been born.
  On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, I was not born yet, I was born 10
years and 26 days later
 When Pablo Escobar died, I was already born, I was 8 years old
 That same year they approved Law 100, which collapsed health in Colombia.
 The earthquake in the Coffee Axis was just beginning when it was first
started
 In the year 2000, the new millennium began, I had recently met my
grandparents, who were going to become my parents
 The day of the September 11 attack, I remember that I went to the doctor, I
was sick
 In 2003, the war for oil began against Iraq, that year I had studied a lot.
 In 2006 Saddam Hussein dies, the year in which I started high school
 In 2013, the particle of God was discovered, the year in which my popes
celebrated my fifteenth birthday
 In 2016, I became pregnant with my only daughter, that same year Donald
Trump would be elected president of the United States.

When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform
as follows:

1. Click the title of this evidence.

2. Click Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make sure
the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación
 Expresa anécdotas haciendo uso de la estructura y el vocabulario
requerido.

 Utiliza los conectores just, after, when, until, before, by the time, already, as
soon as, teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical, vocabulario y
contexto requerido.
 References

Ourtimelines. (s.f.). Create a timeline. Consultado el 14 de noviembre de 2014,

en http://ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html