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This document contains a gap fill exercise summarizing key points about indigenous peoples. It discusses four indigenous groups - Aboriginal Australians, North and South American Indians, and Bushmen of South Africa. It notes that [1] they were the original inhabitants of their regions, [2] they felt a deep connection to the land they lived on as part of the natural world rather than as property, and [3] they had extensive knowledge of the local environment and animals. However, the arrival of outsiders disrupted their way of life and relationship with the land.

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Fce Gap Fill - : Instructions

This document contains a gap fill exercise summarizing key points about indigenous peoples. It discusses four indigenous groups - Aboriginal Australians, North and South American Indians, and Bushmen of South Africa. It notes that [1] they were the original inhabitants of their regions, [2] they felt a deep connection to the land they lived on as part of the natural world rather than as property, and [3] they had extensive knowledge of the local environment and animals. However, the arrival of outsiders disrupted their way of life and relationship with the land.

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CL GRANADA, S. L.

C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada


Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
Fax: 958 25 15 46
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.clgranada.com

FCE GAP FILL - Aboriginal peoples

Instructions: Complete this text. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0)

Aboriginal peoples

Four groups of peoples -the Australian Aborigines, the Indians of North and South America, and the Bushmen

of South Africa- are not often considered together, but they have certain things in common.

First, all four human groups were (0) the original inhabitants of their part (1)________ the world. (The word

aborigine means the people (2)________ were there from the beginning). However , none thought that the

land where they (3)___________ belonged to them. On the contrary, they felt that they belonged to the land.

The land (4)_____ where they lived, along with all the (5)_______ creatures of nature.

They were hunters, so they had a detailed knowledge of the natural world around them. They knew

(6)__________ animal and part of the landscape, and made stories, dances , pictures and songs

(7)___________them.

(8)__________ people thought it was important to fit into their surroundings. They took (9)____________

place beside all other living things, and lived in balance (10)_____ them.

But then outsiders arrived and changed everything. At (11)_________ the original inhabitants welcomed the

white people, (12)__________ them to find food and shelter in the new land. But they soon (13)__________

that the new people lived by a totally different set of beliefs. (14)________ example, unlike the original

inhabitants, the newcomers thought that land was something which could be (15)__________ by one person

or group, not shared by all.

ANSWERS

Adapted from autoenglish.org Rev: 07/09-02-15


CL GRANADA, S. L.
C/ Puentezuelas, nº 32, 1ª Planta - 18002 Granada
Teléf.: 958 53 52 53 – 958 52 12 91
Fax: 958 25 15 46
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.clgranada.com

1 of

2 who / that

3 lived

4 was

5 other

6 every

7 about

8 These / Such

9 their

10 with

11 first

12 helping

13 saw / discovered / learned / realised / understood / found

14 For

15 owned / possessed

Adapted from autoenglish.org Rev: 07/09-02-15

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