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Presentación De Powerpoint CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING UNIT (UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA CLIL) 2017/18 GEOGRAPHY lrs Lourdes Ruiz Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar 1465-1524 Spanish conquistador King of Spain, Charles I He lead the expedition of conquest of Cuba in 1511. He was named to lead the expedition of conquest of Cuba in 1511, with 300 men, a three-year job noted for its brutality. He founded a number of new Spanish settlements and cities on the island, first Baracoa in 1511 and then Santiago de Cuba in 1514 and Havana in 1515. lead [liːd](vb: pt, pp led) dirigir, encabezar found [faʊnd] V fundar lrs settlement [ˈsetlmənt] N colonia, asentamiento Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1475-1519 Spanish conquistador King of Spain, Charles I He was the first to cross the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Balboa was the first European to lead an expedition to the Pacific from the New World. He founded the colony of Darién in Panama, the oldest European settlement that still exists in the mainland of the Americas. mainland[ˈmeɪnlənd] N tierra f firme, continente lrs Hernán Cortés 1485-1547 Spanish conquistador He led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and the conquest of Mexico in 1519. Cortés’s strategy was to ally with some indigenous peoples against others. The Governor of Cuba sent emissaries to arrest Cortés because he didn’t have permission for his expedition. But he fought them and won, using the extra troops as reinforcements. Cortés wrote letters directly to the king asking to be acknowledged for his fall[fɔːl] N caída successes instead of punished for mutiny fight[faɪt](vb: pt, pp fought) luchar contra reinforcement[ˌriːɪnˈfɔːsmənt] N refuerzo acknowledged[əkˈnɒlɪdʒd] ADJ reconocido success[sək'ses]AN1(at task) éxito lrs instead of [ɪnˈsted] PREP en vez de, Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 Portuguese explorer King of Spain, Charles I He organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano. His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth (1519–1522), although Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. Magellan gave the Pacific Ocean its name. although[ɔːlˈðəʊ] CONJ aunque voyage[ˈvɔɪɪdʒ]AN viaje m (por mar, por el espacio) lrs sail[seɪl] V navegar The only ship – el único barco Juan Sebastián Elcano fleet [fliːt] N flota 1476-1526 Spanish navigator King of Spain, Charles I He completed the first world circumnavigation in history in 1522. Magellan & Elcano ship, the Victoria He brought one of Magellan's ships, the Victoria, back to Seville with 34 survivors, on September 8, 1522, after a journey of three years and one month. Elcano sailed back to Spain after Magellan was killed during a fight with natives in the Philippine Islands on April 27, 1521. Actually the Victoria was the only ship (out of five) of Magellan's original expeditionary fleet to make it back to Europe after crossing the Pacific Ocean. lrs Francisco de Pizarro 1475-1541 Spanish conquistador King of Spain, Charles I He seized the Inca empire for Spain in 1531, named the territory Peru and founded Lima in 1535. In 1531 he set sail for Peru with his 4 brothers, 180 men, and 37 horses. He soon encountered emissaries of the Inca emperor, Atahualpa, and arranged a meeting. seize[siːz] V apoderarse de set sail V zarpar There his men slaughtered the emperor's unarmed servants and took him hostage. arrange[əˈreɪndʒ] V organizar slaughter [ˈslɔːtər] V matar After accepting a rich ransom for Atahuallpa's release, Pizarro had him killed. hostage[ˈhɒstɪdʒ] N rehén ransom[ˈrænsəm]AN rescate lrs release[rɪˈliːs] liberación Francisco de Orellana 1511-1546 Spanish explorer and conquistador The first to navigate the length of the Amazon River, completed on 24 August 1542. The story of the fierce ambush started by the Icamiabas, that nearly destroyed the Spanish expedition, was narrated to the king, Charles I, who, inspired by the Greek legend of the Amazons, named the river the Amazon. fierce [fɪəs] ADJ feroz ambush [ˈæmbʊʃ] N emboscada nearly [ˈnɪəlɪ] ADV (=almost) casi lrs Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 French navigator Francis I, king of France He discovered Canada in 1534. He first explored and described the Gulf of St-Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named Canada. shores[of country] tierras fpl lrs Friar Andrés de Urdaneta Urdaneta's route King of Spain, Charles I 1498-1568 Spanish navigator, friar and explorer He completed the "second" world circumnavigation in 1536 . The red route to the Philippines, and the black route back to Mexico Urdaneta plotted a path across the Pacific from the Philippines to Acapulco in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present day Mexico) used by the Manila galleons, later known as "Urdaneta's route“. plot [plɒt] V trazar path [pɑːθ] N camino lrs galleon[ˈgælɪən] N galeón Sir Martin Frobisher 1535-1594 English seaman and privateer Elizabeth I, Queen of England He looked for the Northwest Passage on three different voyages The Northwest Passage (abbreviated as NWP) is, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean As an English privateer/pirate, he collected riches from French ships. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588. seaman[ˈsiːmən] N(pl seamen) marinero privateer[ˌpraɪvəˈtɪər] N corsario collect [kəˈlekt] V recoger, recopilar knight[naɪt] V otorgar el título de Sir a lrs Sir Francis Drake 1540-1596 English captain, navigator and pirate He led the first English circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580 . He was a pirate to the Spaniards so King Philip II offered a reward of 20,000 ducats for his life, about 6.5 million euros by modern standards! He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. reward[rɪˈwɔːd]AN recompensa second-in-command [ˈsekəndɪnkəˈmɑːnd] N segundo de a bordo fleet1[fliːt] N flota lrs Sir Walter Raleigh 1554-1618 English writer, explorer, aristocrat and soldier Elizabeth I, Queen of England He was essential to the English colonisation of North America . He led an expedition in search of “El Dorado” in 1594 and published an exaggerated story of his experiences in a book that contributed to the legend of "El Dorado". search [sɜːtʃ] N búsqueda lrs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS https://manueldelmonte.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/diego-velazquez.png https://alchetron.com/Andr%C3%A9s-de-Urdaneta#- Urdaneta http://www.augnet.org/en/history/people/4380-andr%C3%A9s-de-urdaneta/ route https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67515 mapa de America https://www.pinterest.es/pin/97038566941164763/ voyage of the Victoria http://projectbritain.com/calendar/September/drake.html Sir Francis Drake https://afputra.com/walter-raleigh-map.html# Sir Walter Raleigh map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage https://artistasoguerreros.blogspot.com/2013/02/vasco-nunez-de-balboa-1475-1519.html Balboa map https://hernanco2.weebly.com/journal-entry--map.html Mapa Hernán Cortés https://www.roughdiplomacy.com/?p=8286 Magallanes Voyage of the Victoria & Ship https://laamericaespanyola.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/el-amazonas-y-francisco-de-orellana/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_I_de_Espa%C3%B1a#/media/File:Charles_V._-_after_Bernaerd_van_Orley_-_depot_Louvre-Mus%C3%A9e_de_Brou,_Bourg-en-Bresse.jpg https://www.panamatoday.com/es/life-style/vasco-nunez-de-balboa-frente-la-historia-4603 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s lrs lrs.
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