Collège Louise Wegmann October 2019 Class: 5ème Name

Collège Louise Wegmann October 2019
Class: 5ème
Name: _________________________________
I- Reading Comprehension
The Lost Tribes
A long time ago during the last ice age, there used to be land between s Siberia
and Alaska. Groups of people crossed from Siberia into the American continent
and spread through North and South America. They formed tribes with names
which we know from Hollywood films, like Apache, Sioux, Cherokee and
Comanche. These tribes spoke their own languages and had their own customs.
Early white settlers called them “Indians”, although now in the USA they
prefer to be called “American Indians” or “Native American Indians.”
Before 1800 there were over a million American Indians. They lived mainly by hunting and fishing and
growing crops. The Sioux, for example, used to hunt buffalo. The buffalo gave the Sioux everything they
needed: food, clothes, tools and homes.
Then in the 1840s wagon trains carrying white Europeans began to move west across the Great Plains, looking
for land to settle on and build farms. At first the American Indians tried to drive them away but it soon became
impossible and they had to give large areas of land to the white farmers. Soon there was little land left for the
buffalo to roam. Thousands of them were shot by the white hunters, just for their skins. By 1874, the white
hunters had almost completely destroyed the great herds of buffalo.
The white farmers took more and more of the land and eventually drove
the American Indians onto “reservations” – areas of dry, rocky land
which nobody wanted. The American Indians fought back in some small
but violent battles. In the end, not surprisingly, the American Indians
lost their fight. By 1900 there were only a few hundred thousand of them
left. Today, half of them live on reservations and half in other parts of
the USA.
A- Are the sentences True or False? Find a justification from the text.
1- In the distant past there was no sea between Siberia and Alaska.
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2- Another name for American Indians was “Apaches”.
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3- The Sioux used to kill the buffalo for sport.
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4- The white settlers wanted to push the American Indians out of the Great Plains.
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5- The white farmers left the buffalo to roam the Great Plains.
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6- The American Indians won their fight with the white settlers.
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B- Match each of the definitions below with a word from the text.
1- People who make a land their home:
2- Plants grown as food:
3- force them out (2 words):
4- A large group of animals:
C- Answer the following questions in full sentences.
1- Where did the American Indians originally come from?

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2- Why was the buffalo an important animal for the Sioux?

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3- What do you think happened to the American Indians when the white hunters killed the herds of
buffalo?
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4- What does the title “the lost tribes” mean?
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The Lost Tribes

1- People who make a land their home:

2- Plants grown as food:

3- force them out (2 words):

4- A large group of animals:

C- Answer the following questions in full sentences.

1- Where did the American Indians originally come from?

2- Why was the buffalo an important animal for the Sioux?

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