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.
Answe:

Bluford first black in space in the year of my birth.

1. 1981, a year of attacks The attack against the Pope and against the
president of the United States, as well as the assassination of the
Egyptian president, marked this year in the world.
2. In 2001, Colombia hosted the Copa América of soccer, in which the
local team won the title for the first time.
3. The United States and the European Union declare to the Colombian
guerrillas and the paramilitaries terrorist groups.
 4. e gives the first amendment to the 1991 Constitution in which the
consecutive re-election of the President of the Republic is allowed.
5. in 2008 on March 1: The army attacks a FARC camp that was on
Ecuadorian soil and drops Raul Reyes, one of its top leaders. The
"Andean Crisis" begins.
6. in 2013 on May 12: Pope Francis canonizes Mother Laura Montoya,
to become the first Colombian saint.

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.
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