Worksheet 5 1. Read the text and underline key ideas.
Columbus Reports on His First Voyage, 1493
On the thirty-third day after leaving Cadiz I came into the Indian Sea, where I discovered many islands inhabited by numerous people. Finally, we landed in an island that we called Hispaniola; there are very lofty and beautiful mountains, great farms, groves and elds, most fertile both for cultivation and for pasturage, and well adapted for constructing buildings.The convenience of the harbors in this island and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief. Hispaniola abounds in various kinds of species, gold, and metals.The inhabitants are all unprovided with any sort of iron, and they are destitute of arms, which are entirely unknown to them, and for which they are not adapted.They are very honest and very liberal. No one refuses the asker anything that he possesses; on the contrary, they themselves invite us to ask for it.They manifest the greatest affection towards all of us, exchanging valuable things for tri es, content with the very least thing or nothing at all. I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princes and all the people of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need. 2. Write questions that may be answered with the information contained in the historical account. a. Who ? b. What ? c. Where ? d. When ? e. How ? f. Why ? 3. Exchange your activities with another pair and have them answer the questions you wrote. 4. On a sheet of paper, create a comic strip that shows the sequence of actions explained in the text your read in Activity 1. Draw six panels and include texts in speech bubbles, thought bubbles, and captions.
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