Review : Unit 17

1. Review : Unit 17 Prof. Everson English 101 UMET-Bayamon

2. Match the information: _____ a French general _____ an Olympic boxer _____ African nations _____ former Eastern European nations _____ a comedy team _____ American rock singers _____ a British Prime Minister _____ a professional baseball player _____ American writers _____ the wife of the president of Argentina the Marx brothers Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain Napoleon Bonaparte Winston Churchill the Soviet Union and East Germany Eva Peron Muhammad Ali Zimbabwe and South Africa Roberto Clemente Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison Now write sentences using past tense of be : Example: The Marx brothers were a comedy team.

3. Write true statements about life 100 years ago. (negative or affirmative) Example: expressways: There weren’t any expressways 100 years ago. trains horses jet planes skateboards United Nations a country called China two countries on Korean peninsula Olympic Games computers a prime minister of Canada a king or queen of Great Britain a president of the United States an elected governor of Puerto Rico

4. Write wh- questions for the underlined word in the statement. Example: The name of Zimbabwe was Rhodesia. What was the name of Zimbabwe? Eva Peron was from Argentina. Mark Twain was the author of Huckleberry Finn. Muhammad Ali was in the Olympics in 1960. Rhodesia and Upper Volta were African nations. Elvis Presley’s house was in Tennessee. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. The Soviet Union and East Germany were in Eastern Europe. Napoleon was arrested because he supported the French Revolution. Animal Crackers was one of the Marx Brothers movie. Winston Churchill was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.