БЖБ 11-сынып Ағылшын тілі, 2-тоқсан «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices»
Summative assessment for theunit «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices»
English for the Grade 11
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БЖБ 11-сынып Ағылшын тілі, 2-тоқсан «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices»
Summative assessment for the unit «Investigate and report on timekeeping devices»
Learning objectives 11.4.1
11.4.7
11.5.1
Understand complex and abstract main points in
extended texts on a wide range of familiar and
unfamiliar general and curricular topics
Recognize patterns of development in lengthy texts
[inter-paragraph level] on a range of more complex and
abstract general and curricular topics
Plan, write, edit and proofread work at text level
independently on a wide range of general and curricular
topics
Assessment criteria Summarize main information from the text
Identify the organization of information in the text
Create coherent paragraph for a range of purposes;
Develop a topic with well-chosen, relevant facts
Level of thinking skills Knowledge and comprehension
Application
Duration 20 minutes
Reading
Task 1. Read the text and be ready to answer the questions.
Timekeeping: Why We Need Clocks and Calendars
By David Christian, Big History Project, adapted by Newsela staff
All life forms come with their own way of keeping track of time. However, no other
species does it better than humans. People have more ways of marking time, and they do it more
precisely.
Why bother to keep time?
Why do people need clocks and calendars? The answer may seem obvious. People need to
know what others are doing and when they are doing it. They also need to know what is
happening in nature. People who do not know the time or date will be out of sync with the world.
It is not just modern humans who need to keep track of time. All living things must know
the time to adjust to the world as it changes. Plants need to know when to blossom. Birds need to
know when to fly south for the winter.
Keeping track of time is very important. It is so important that, over time, humans have
developed clocks in their bodies. The body clocks react to daylight and the seasons changing.
They tell people not to wake up at 2 am, when it is dark outside.
What's different about human time?
Humans track time differently than other creatures. They have found more detailed ways to
mark the time. To schedule work and keep track of history, humans have designed sophisticated
clocks, calendars, and timetables. It was not always this way.
Keeping time in the Paleolithic era
In early societies, it was easy to keep track of the time. Ancient people spent most of their
time outside. They could watch the positions of the Sun and the stars.
As early as 100,000 years ago, humans lived in South Africa's Blombos Cave. In the cave,
historians found pieces of ochre, an orange/red rock. The rocks had strange marks on them. It is