STEVE JOBS’ WISDOM

The other day I’ve read Steve Jobs’ Commencement address which he delivered at the Standford University in 2005.

For those who should not know it, he was CEO and co-founder (together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne) of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar

Animation Studios but he had never graduated from college.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, posted with vodpod

What he said impressed me and I, therefore, would like to quote some sentences and I also add the link to my grammar exercise (reported speech)

which you can correct online. Just click on your trackpad and a variety of sentences will appear and you have to look for the one in reported speech 

that goes together with the one in direct speech.

http://langedi49.ch/REPORTEDSPEECH.htm

I’ve also prepared cards where the question words have to be filled in by the learner. The cards can also be cut out and students  may discuss the questions

in small groups by also deciding about the question words to use and the answers to give. STEVEJOBSQUESTIONS2

Ich versuche hier unten auch einige Zitate auf Deutsch und Italienisch zu übersetzen.

Cerco anche di tradurre alcune citazioni in italiano.

- „You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.“. (Referred to life)

Übersetzung auf Deutsch:

„Du kannst die Punkte nicht vorwärtsschauend  (im Blick auf die Zukunft)  verknüpfen, sondern nur rückwärts. „

Traduzione in italiano:

„Non puoi vedere i punti di collegamento guardando al futuro, ma soltanto guardando al passato.“

BIO-CREVETTEN/ORGANIC SHRIMPS/VIETNAM1

For English listening and vocabulary explanations scroll down.

Ci sono anche delle traduzioni e spiegazioni del contenuto in italiano.

Die UNO hat das Jahr 2011 zum UNO-Jahr des Waldes erklärt, somit also noch einmal ein Jahr zum Thema Umwelt.. Da wir alle immer mehr über die vielseitigen Naturkatastrophen weltweit besorgt sind, scheint mir das eine gute Idee.

Im Coop Magazin  „verde“, das sich für BIO Produkte und Nachhaltigkeit einsetzt, habe ich nun über die neusten Informationen zur BIO-Crevettenzucht in Südvietnam gelesen. http://www.coop.ch/pb/site/nachhaltigkeit/node/64675502/Lde/index.html

Nachdem man die Mangrovenwälder fast komplett abgeholzt hat, um auf

konventionelle Art und weise Crevetten zu züchten, versucht man nun das Steuer in eine andere Richtung zu drehen. Man hat nämlich erkannt, dass man die Mangroven unbedingt

braucht, wenn man BIO-Crevetten züchten will. Die Tiere, die man im trüben Wasser nicht sieht, ernähren sich von Kleinstlebewesen, die sie in den Wurzeln dieser Bäume finden.

Dadurch wird es möglich komplett auf Fütterung der Crevetten durch den Menschen zu verzichten. Ausserdem füttert man so auch keine Arzneimittel oder Leistungsförderer

mehr und der Boden wird nicht so belastet und versalzen und es treten auch keine Chemikalien ins Grundwasser.

Anscheinend hat das Ganze als Entwicklungsszusammenarbeit begonnen, bei dem die Schweiz  federführend ist. Man versucht mit diesem Projekt das fragile Öko-System in dieser äusserst fruchtbaren Gegend, von unzähligen Flüssen und Kanälen durchzogenen Gegend  zu retten.

Die Verarbeitung der BIO-Crevetten findet an Ort und Stelle statt, d.h. in Ca Mau und es werden ungefähr 800 Bauern dazu

beschäftigt. Die dortigen Bauern haben auch verstanden, dass sie mit dieser Produktion  mehr verdienen.

Erklärungen/Übersetzung ins Englische/Italienische der fettgedruckten Wörter/Satzteile:

Here below a short summary in English  and translations of words/expressions  also in German and Italian.

Qui di sotto un breve riassunto e traduzioni di parole/espressioni anche in inglese e tedesco.

Die Vereinigten Nationen  haben erklärt, dass 2011 das Jahr des Waldes ist.		The United nations have declared that 2011 is the year of the forest.	Le Nazioni Unite hanno dichiarato che il 2011 è l’anno della foresta.
Ein Thema zur  Umwelt		A topic about the environment	Un argomento sull’ambiente
Da wir besorgt sind,………(da kann am Anfang des Satzes stehen, weil jedoch nicht!)		As we are worried….	Visto che siamo proccupati……..
Die Nachhaltigkeit		a lasting improvement	un miglioramento durevole
Nachdem man dieMangrovenwälder abgeholzt hat,…..,+ Präs. oderNachdem man die Wälder abgeholzt hatte,  +Präteritum		After having cut  down the mangrove forests,…	Dopo aver tagliato le foreste di mangrovie….
um Crevetten zu züchten,		in order to cultivate shrimps	alfine di coltivare gamberi,
hat man nämlich erkannt, dass die Crevetten sich von den Kleinstlebewesen in den Mangroven ernähren.		it  has in fact, been understood that shrimps live on very small animals  which live inside  the mangrove trees.	si ha infatti capiti che i gamberi vivono di animalettii nelle mangrovie.
Man forstet jetzt wieder Mangroven auf, um Bio-Crevetten zu züchten.		Mongrove trees have been reafforested in order to produce organic crabs.	Le mangrovie vengono  rimboscate per produrre bio-gamberi.
Es ist möglich auf Fütterung durch Mensch zu verzichten.		Human beings don’t have to feed the crabs  anymore.	L’essere umano non deve più dare da mangiare ai gamberi.
Anscheinend		It seems	Sembra
Die Entwicklungszusammnarbeit		The joint development efforts.	Ccollaborazione nello sviluppo
Man vesucht das fragile Ökosystem zu retten.		They try to save this vulnerable eco-system.	Si cerca di salvare questo eco-sistema coì vulnerabile.
	Die Verarbeitung	The elaboration	L’elaborazione
	Es werden  ca.800 Bauern beschäftigt.	Approx. 800 farmers are employed.	Circa 800 contadini sono impiegati.
	Die Bauern haben verstanden, dass sie so mehr verdienen.	The famers have understood that they earn more in this way.	I contadini hanno capito che quadagnono di più in questo modo.

For those who want to do a listening exercise in English I’ve prepared five sentences  into which you have to fill the missing words. Choose from

the grid. The sound of the bell tells you where a word/expression is missing .

declared

mangroves

to save

organic

to be fed

a)eco1

b)antibiotics

c)mangroves

d)organic

e)UNO1

Zu Swissinfo.ch

Deutsch und Italienisch siehe unten/Italiano e tedesco vedi giù.

I would like to recommend www. Swissinfo.ch to language learners. On this website you have the possibility to read  articles, listen to them  or watch videos in various languages

such as, German, Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese. Chinese and others  which, unfortunately, I ‘m not even capable of reading..

There are  also reports about national and international topics on sport, culture, economics, politics or science.

This video, for example, is about Mr Christoph  Zürich who brought skiing to Afghanistan.

Skiing in Afghanistan – swissinfo, posted with vodpod

To the vocabulary:

Bamian is a save haven: B. è un posto/rifugio  sicuro/ein sicherer Ort

to be driven out/ essere spinto fuori/ausgewiesen werden

ski challenge/race/gara da sci/Skirennen

sth. can be rented/qc.p uò essere noleggiato/etwas kann gemietet werden

equipment/equipaggio/die Ausrüstung

Last but not least here is a link for people interested in Swiss emigrant to Utah in the 19th century http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/How_the_Swiss_founded_a_Mormon_town.html?cid=29937810

FOREIGN LANGUAGES/YOUR CAREERS/MY BLOG!

A penfriend of mine who eaches at the Ural State Pedagogical University, Institute of Foreign Languages in Yekaterinenburg, Russia

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~geissler/Ural State Pedagogical University.htm

has asked me to write her a paper for their conference they are holding about the importance of the knowledge of foreign languages in our careers and about the means by which

professional language skills can be obtained through self-study and in what way I integrate the material I publish on my blog into my lessons.

It would also be intersting for me to hear your, the readers, opinion on this topic!

Here below is the part of the report  where I write about the importance  of  language knowledge  for us here in Switzerland because on my blog you can find enough

ideas of how to achieve the goal by self-learning.

2.Why is the knowledge of a foreign language important for your/our career?:

In Switzerland we have 4 national languages or  more precisely German, French, Italian and Romantsch.

Beyond that approx.25% of the inhabitants are foreigners in our country .This shows very quickly how important languages are in order to communicate with one another and,

of course, to understand the cultures of the others better.

To acquire language knowledge belongs to our everyday life. People who work for banks or at international companies, in general, or for  travel agencies wouldn’t have any chances

to get a job without this knowledge. The languages represent our „natural resources“ which we do not possess.

In our globalized world languages have become more and more important. Only through communication and comprehension of the other can  we improve the world or at least avoid many misunderstandings. Imagine also that you go on a trip to a foreign country and what use this is if you can’t even speak to the people there!

I teach English and German at an international company and for some of the employees the knowledge of these languages is a must.

Besides this, I teach the above mentioned languages to people who work for the security services and for them too, the languages are essential in their jobs because of the many contacts they

have with tourists or partners.

On this video I’m explaining why I set up a blog and why I think it is useful for adult learner/students, also for those who study on their own because I give answers to questions or explain or

translate vocabulary.

Here the video you aksed me to prepare; I’m, of course, not a movie star, but I hope it will give some hints of why I do this work here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxpI-TCgyI

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, posted with vodpod

Downlaodable report about “ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES ” ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Included you can read a compostion in this sense by one of my students.

SMALL WORLD/Martin Suter

Die obige Graphik zeigt die Figurenkonstellation am Anfang dieses Buches, welches ich hier kurz skizzieren  möchte.

Zum Wortschatz  auch auf  Englisch und Deutsch siehe unten.

Vocaboli in italiano/tedesco/inglese/vedi alla fine di questo articolo.

To the vocabulary in German/English/Italian/scroll down the page.

SMALL WORLD, so lautet der Titel, ist  äuserst spannend und sehr gut recherchiert. Es wurde auch bereits verfilmt mit Gérard Depardieu in der Hauptrolle. E’ già stato fatto il film con G.D.nella parte del protagonista/The film is with G.D. as the leading actor.)

Hier der Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SLKKuYDsk

Welches Buch von Martin Sutter könnt ihr empfehlen?

 

CHRISTCHURCH

Christchurch/map/interactiv

The following article is in English with vocabulary explanation in English, German and Italian.

The folgende Artikel ist auf Deutsch mit Worschatzerklärungen auf Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch.

Il seguente articolo è in inglese con spiegazione di vocaboli in italiano, tedesco e inglese.

I know that you’ve all heard about the terrible earthquake by which Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island New Zealand, was struck (explanations of how to use this

word see below) on 22 February  2011 and that due to this catastrophe many people died and  many buildings were destroyed. Some parts of the city still seem to be without

drinking water or electricity.

Christchurch is a very nice city and has approximately 350’000 inhabitants. There are beautiful parks and excellent schools and the cosy tramway usually takes you on a

sightseeing tour around the city.

Unfortunately, the very famous ChristChurch Cathedral, which was built in the 19th century and  finished in 1904 has been very badly damaged. Its spire which reached 63 metres

above Cathedral Square  is in ruins and left only the lower tower standing.  The many buildings nearby are also ruined. The cathedral is in the centre of the city and is surrounded by

Cathedral Square. The tower had offered a good view over the centre. The cathedral also had a very impressive organ. I only hope that it still exists.

Last but not least the cathedral used to be the best known and most visited building in New Zealand!

What’s the name of the capital city of New Zealand?

I’m sorry for all this and  wish youl  good luck!

Hier noch ein Link zu einem Artikel auf Deutsch:http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/christchurch-bisher-145-erdbebenopfer-in-neuseeland-geborgen_aid_603590.html

Worksheet:Christchurch

EGYPT/ÄGYPTEN/TUTANKHAMUN

DEUTSCH: SIEHE UNTEN

Artikel mit Wortschatzerklärung  auf Englisch und Italienisch und Grammatik/Passiv/Nebensätze: Ab A2-B1

First of all, let’s hope that we can soon return to this fascinating country! Speriamo tanto di poter presto ritornare in questo paese affascinate! Hoffen wir, dass wir bald in dieses faszinierende Land zurückkehren können!

All around the world many people are worried about the situation in Egypt and very sorry also for the pillages that have lately occurred  at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquity in Cairo.

That museum can be compared with the Louvre in Paris and it contains many very important pieces of ancient Egyptian history.

It houses, for example, the world’s largest collection of  Pharaohnic antiquities and the many treasures of the Pharaoh TUTANKHAMUN of the 18^th dynasty. The current museum is

in Tahrir Square where many actual protests are taking place.

It was Howard Carter an English  archeologist who is known as the primary discoverer of  Tutankhamun’s tomb on 4 November 1922. Carter’s water carrier seems to have found

the steps leading to the tomb. It was by far the best preserved and most intact pharaohnic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

When Carter  and his companions arrived they made a „tiny breach in the top left hand corner“ of the door and by means of

a candle they could see that the gold and ebony treasures were still in order. Inside the tomb there was a large collection of artefacts, which should accompany the pharaoh to the

hereafter. There were weapons, ivory, alabaster and gold bracelets, necklaces or other decorative jewellery. They found the famous chest with the green gem in form of a scarab

and with the eye of Horus in the middle and above all the  famous GOLD MASK in the burial chamber. In that room there were murals all over. Carter had never seen anything

so magificent like that.

When Tutankhamun came to power he married his half sister and they had two daughter, both stillborn. During his reign he lifted the ban of Amun (God) and traditional privileges

were restored and the capital was brought back to Thebes.

Scientists still do not agree on Tutankhamun’s reason of death. Did he die at the age  of nineteen because he was suffering from malaria or maybe  because there used to be incest

or was he poisoned? However, the latest scans show that he had many broken bones  and that one leg got infected. Scientists suppose that he may have fallen from his wagon due to a fight.

Click on this link and you can, for example

-read the article

-and then listen to it and at the same time do a drag and drop exercise TUTANKHAMUN

I would like to end this comment in English with a little bit of grammar:

This is a link to the New York Times about Ëgypt:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html

Arbeitsblatt/worksheet

SOME SENTENCES TO THE PASSIVE

Passive present	Passive perfect	Passive simple past	Passive future
The Tutankhhamun tomb is found by Howard Carter.	The Tutankhamun tomb has been found by Howard Carter.	The Tutankhamun tomb was found by Howard Carter in 1922.	The Tutankhamun treasures will maybe be destroyed.

 

SOME SENTENCES TO THE CONDITIONAL

FACT	HIGH PROBABILITYpresent tense	LOWER PROBABILITYpresent tense	CONDITIONAL IN THE PAST
If  the Golden Maskis in the museum, they steal it.	If the Golden Mask is in the museum, they will steal it.	If the Golden Mask was in the museum, they would steal it.	If the Golden Mask had been in the museum, they would have stolen it.

Ich  habe auch gelesen, dass die Ägypterinnen durch diese Revolution eine neue Position in der Gesellschaft erreicht haben. Und DW hat einen Artikel für Deutschlerner, mit Wort-

schatzerklärugen veröffentlicht, der die Probleme der Unternehmen thematisiert, die in autoritären Ländern tätig sind.http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14833134,00.html

Diesen Artikel über Ägyptens jüngste Geschichte , den ich auf Andy Neusteins (http://www.toronto.diplo.de/contentblob/2073266/Daten/268478/download_deutsch_blog.pdf ) gelesen habe, lege ich euch sehr ans Herz:http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=3858

KAIRO

Die ganze Welt schaut in dieser Zeit nach Ägypten und auf die umliegenden Länder und wir sind besorgt, weil der ägyptische Präsident Mubarak nicht zurücktreten will.

Leider ist ja auch das Ägyptische Museum mit den äusserst wertvollen Tutanchamun Schätzen geplündert worden. Dieses Museum beherbert die wichtigste Antiksammlung

der Welt. Es kann an Wichtigkeit mit dem Louvre verglichen werden. Ich habe gelesen, dass die eigenen Angestellten des Museums diese Plünderung verursacht haben.

Es sollen auch 2 Mumien zerstört,  sowie Vitrinen  mit wervollem Schmuck eingeschlagen worden sein. Das Ägyptische Museum ist im Stadtzentrum am Tahir-Platz und wird nun vermehrt von der Arme beschützt.Die ganzen Schätze sind auch nicht versichert!

Worksheet/Arbeitsblatt:Arbeitsblatt/workshheet

Nach dass und weil kommen die Verben an den Schluss des Satzes.

Hier eine  graphische Erklärung zum Passiv:

nach Ägypten schauen	to look towards Egypt	guardare verso Egitto
zurücktreten	to abdict	dimettersi
wertvoll	precious	prezioso/i
plündern	to pillage	saccheggiare
beherbergen	to house	ospitare
die Antiksammlung	collection of antiquities	collezione di antichitä
die Angestellten	the employees	gli impiegati
zerstören	to destroy	distruggere
beschützen	to protect	proteggere
der Schatz	treasure	il tesoro

Pyramids/Pyramiden

(Fotos F.Ramsauer)
(Deutsch siehe unten)

(The 3 great Pyramids on the Plain of Gizah and the Sphinx.)

In the following video a British archeologist explains his theories about the mysteries

of how, at least, the Cheops pyramid  may have been built, approximately 4000 thousand years ago!

Here some vocabulary explanations.

You stand in awe in front of them.	Si sta davanti a loro con grande rispetto.
overpower	sopraffare
mere  /figure sth. out	semplici /risolvere-capire
aliens	extraterrestri
to be baffled	rimanere perplesso
astounding /narrow	sorprendente/stretto
It’s mind boggling ,it’s weird.	è inconcepibile; è strano
They are shimmering in the desert.	Luccicano nel deserto.
Huge rocks on top of each other.	Enormi blocchi di ssasso, uno sopra l’altro
The right-angled triangle derives from Pythagoras	L’angolo retto che si conosce da Pythagoras,.
a string with a weight on the end	piombino
skyscrapers	grattacieli
tripping over	inciampare
accurate	preciso
measure out	misurare
grid	griglia
disjuncted	disgiunto
hole	bucco
accuracy counts	precisione conta
polished walls	pareti puliti/lisci
great step	grande scalino
a crammed journey	un escursione di poco spazio
burial chamber/tomb	posto di sepoltura/tomba
inlaid	intarsiato
unstable ladder	una scala instabile
to be stuck	rimanere bloccato

more about “The egyptian pyramids“, posted with vodpod

Die Ebene von Gizeh befindet sich in unmittelbarer Nähe von Kairo und nicht  in der Wüste. Wir spürten die Stadt gleich hinter unseren Rücken.

Aber als die Pyramiden vor über  4’000 Jahren gebaut wurden, war der Ort ideal für die Errichtung von Bauwerken, weil er auch westlich des Nils ist, sozusagen am Ort des Sonnenunterganges. Er erfüllte alle notwendigen religiösen Bedingungen für eine Nekropole.

Die Sphinx befindet sich etwa 500 Meter östlich der Chefren-Pyramide. Sie wurde aus Kalkstein der Ebene gemeisselt. Der Körper ist der eines hockenden Löwen, das Symbol königlicher Macht, aber der Kopf ist menschlich. Das Gesicht entspricht wahrscheinlich dem des Pharaonen Chefren.

Hier ein kleines Quiz bezüglich des Pyramidenbaus. Ihr könnt also versuchen, die Satzteile auf der rechten Seite, die ihr als richtig erachtet, neben die Satzteile auf der linken Seite zu ziehen. PYRAMIDEN

Multilingual exercises/Uebungen

Cliccando sul seguente link appare una finestra creata dall’Univesità di Nottingham, nella quale potete inserire un testo in diverse lingue come, per esempio, quelli qui di sotto in tedesco ed inglese. Potete inserire anche un testo in italiano, spagnolo, francese, portoghese e russo. Dopo indicate la lingua nella quale volete fare l’esercizio e il problema grammaticale che volete esercitare, come per esempio, aggettivi, preposizioni, nomi o verbi. Poi cliccate su “submit”. Se fate fare un esercizio “drag & drop” dovrebbero poi venir evidenziati i verbi, se avete scelto quest’ultimi. Sembra che le parole che vengono evidenziate non siano sempre quelle richieste, ma non è così grave, ci si può allenare lo stesso inserendole negli spazi aperti.

If you click onto the following link there appears a window into which you can paste a text. You can use the one I added here below or one you choose. Afterwards you choose the language in which you want to do the exercise and the grammar problem you want to train, such as verbs, nouns, prepositions etc. If you choose a drag & drop excercise the words which you will have to drag or transport into the gaps  show after having clicked on submit.

http://vsac.cele.nottingham.ac.uk/~ccztk/mfl/pos_standalone_general.php

Leben in der Stadt oder auf dem Land?

Als kleines Kind  wohnte ich mit meiner Familie in einer Grosstadt, in der es viel Verkehr gab.

Das Haus, in  dem wir wohnten, lag in einer engen Strasse in der Vorstadt. Aus allen Fenstern waren nur Mauern zu sehen. Die Sonne kam nie bis in mein Zimmer hinein. Ich fühlte mich sehr einsam an diesem Ort. Eines Tages entschloss sich mein Vater endlich. Wir zogen uns zurück an den Rand der Stadt in ein Bauernhaus, dessen wunderbarer Garten an Felder grenzte, in denen Gemüse und Getreide wuchs. Ein Ort in der Natur, wo Stille, Ruhe und Frieden zu finden war.

Nun konnte ich mit Menschen zusammenleben und mit anderen Kindern spielen. Aber am Horizont wucherten Hochhäuser. Auf der alten Dorfstrasse wurde jedes Jahr ein  altes Bauernhaus abgerissen. Nach einer gewissen Zeit riss man in unserem Garten sogar die drei Holzscheunen ab, um eine neue Villa zu bauen.

Schlussendlich zogen wir wieder in die grosse Stadt, wo ich ins Gymnasium gehen konnte  und darnach studierte.

Text in English which you can insert into the window, if you want.

THE ELEFANT MAN

He is called „The Elefant Man“ because he is so deformed  and very different from normal people, or very elefantlike. He is ownded and abused for freakshows by a man who makes money by showing him to visitors. One day Dr Treves, who works at the nearby hospital, sees his picture displayed and in window.  At first he is interested in him and would also like to take advantages of the handicapped, but then he feels disgusted and wants to see him. The dirty man in the shop, of course, wants some money before he lets Dr Treves see he creature behind the cloth.

The doctor decides to help him. He succeeds in taking the creature or Mr. Merrick to the hospital.There he is looked after, fed well and can read and write. He even  entertains well-to-dos of society.

HATSHEPSUT

Hatshepsut was an Egyptian Queen and Pharaoh. She accomplished many things, but perhaps the greatest of all was her ability to rule Egypt during the 8th Dynasty. More than a military commander she was a benefactress of the arts. Until that time it had been extremely rare for a woman to sit on the throne of Egypt and unheard of for a woman to boldy assume the role of a pharaoh. From the valley of the Kings we crosed the mountain on foot and arrived in that way at her temple or Deir el-Bahari in the valley consecrated to the goddess Hathor. Some years ago many people, among them Swiss tourists, were killed  there by terrorists.

Fotos F.Ramsauer

Unscramble the various paragraphs in a way that  they make sense.

1)This was a bold move for the female ruler. It was at this time that Hatshepsut began to take mesures to insure the people of Egypt saw her as the  legitimate  ruler of the Egyptian nation. According to their custom, the ruling pharaoh was required to be considered as divine.

2)She therefore made efforts to curry favour with them and succeeded admirably. Finally, Hatshepsut disposed of traditional female clothing and donned the garb of traditional male pharaohs.

3)In 1473 B.C.Hatshepsut decided she had had enough of ruling on behalf of the child and declared herself pharaoh.

4)This, of course, meant that he married his half sister, Hatshepsut. It is believed that the new king did not live long and upon his death his son, by another wife, became paharaoh. The child was too young to rule a country like Egypt, so his aunt and stepmother took over on his behalf , as regent and ruled for six years.

5)Reliefs and artwork depicting the female pharaoh indicate that she wore a fake beard similar to the ones worn by previous male sitting on the throne of Egypt. The art portraying the queen also seems to indicate that among the accomplishments of Queen Hatshepsut was the respect of the Egyptia people.

6)Hatshepsut struck upon the brilliant plan of claiming her mother was visited by the deity Amon-Ra who called upon her while pregnant with Hatshepsut. His would seem to indicate that the Queen was divine because of the visit. Hatshepsut was also astute enough to realize that her stronghold on the throne of Egypt was only as strong as the priests’ support of her.

7)A timeline of Queen Hatshepsut’s live indicates she was born the daughter of King Thutmose I and one of his queens.

8)When the king died the throne was inherited by his son, In keeping up with traditional Egyptian standards, the new king married his father’s oldest daughter.

The answers:

7

8

4

3

1

6

2

5