Roman Forum Worksheet

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Think and Observe!

1. What does the first image represent? How about the second one?
2. Can you tell the differences between the first and the second picture?
3. Which one do you think is more recent? Why?
4. To what can you compare it nowadays?
In this lesson we are going to study the ancient Roman Forum.
1. What was the Roman Forum?
1. Listening. Predicting the topic. Listen to your teacher reading a text.

Circle the words your hear as the teacher reads them. You wont hear 5
words.
2. Vocabulary. Find the words to these definitions from the box above.
remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow
away ________________________
in a competition or event in which two people or teams compete against
each other______________________
the activity of talking ______________________
a sculpture made from a flat surface in which the forms are raised above the
surface _______________
a large pipe, usually underground, that is used for carrying waste water and
human waste away ___________________
the place where a public event or meeting happens __________________
an area of land that is higher than the surrounding land _______________
3. Now watch a short video about the Roman Forum. Try to find the
answers to these questions.
1 What can you find in the Roman Forum?

2 To whom is the birth of the Forum linked?
3 Why did the battle stop according to the legend?
4 The Forum is the place between the Palatine Hill and the
Capitol Hill. Why many places on the Internet are called
Forum nowadays?
5 What is the Cloaca Maxima? Why was it built?
6 What started to develop after the sewage was built?
7 When the marketplace started to diminish because the
city grew, what other constructions were built around the
forum?
8 Under what reigns or emperors where most buildings
constructed?
9 When did many temples start to be abandoned,
destroyed or converted into churches?
10 Who used the Roman Forum in the Middle Ages?
11 When did archaeologists start to feel they had to
protect the area?
12 What did the excavations show?
4. Below youll see a reconstruction of the Roman Forum. Match the

places with the buildings. Use the vocabulary boxes to know the names.
Hint: number 3 is Rostra and 4 is Temple of Vespasian. Use this map to
help you locate these places.
Palatine Arch of Titus Coliseum Basilica di Maxentius House of Vestals

Temple of Venus and Rome Temple of Romulus Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
Temple of Augustus
Church of S.Maria Antiqua Temple of Castor Temple of Vestals Temple of Julius
Caesar
Basilica Emilia Basilica Iulia Colonna di Foca Temple of Saturn Via Sacra
Temple of Vespasian Arch of Septimius Severus Curia
5. Now read this text about the Roman Forum and highlight new
information with a yellow marker. This means youll have to read the text
carefully and find details of the Roman Forum you did not know before.
6. Now youll visit internet and youll write about these people (5 lines
each).
Titus Flavius Julius Caesar Romulus The Vestals
Venus
You need to give this information about each person.
- Who were they? What was their job or task?
- When did they live? What period or years?
- What were they famous for?
Titus Flavius
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Julius Caesar
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Romulus
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The Vestals
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Venus ..
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Answers to exercise 1:
Not mentioned: venue senate lake hill battles
1. drain 2.match 3. speech 4.relief 5. sewer 6. venue 7. hill
1. You can find the excavations of several ancient monuments of modern Rome.
2. To the battle between Romulus, the first king controlling the Palatine, and his
rival, Titus Tacitus, who occupied the Capitol Hill.
3. Because of the cry and prayers of the women who demanded they both
started negotiations.
4. The forum is the place where people meet and discuss.
5. Its a sewer because the land was too marsh.
6. Markets
7. Public buildings.
8. Julius Caesar and his successor Augustus.
9. In 4 AD
10. Shepherds and their cattle
11. In the 1890s under Napoleon he demanded to excavate part of the site.
12. The forum was built in many separate layers.
Anwers to exercise 4 :
Taken from
http://nuke.romeheritagetours.com/COLOSSEUMROMANFORUMTOUR/tabid/468/Default.aspx
Videos Sources:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTeWERWaJ4
Mapes
1. http://www.emersonkent.com/images/republican_forum.jpg
2. http://0.tqn.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/u/2/3/Roman-Forum
3. http://famouswonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/roman-forum-map.jpg
4. https://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc302_introtorome/s08/schedule/maps.htm
5. http://www.tigtail.org/TIG/M_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Roman/architecture/roman_forum_map-1k.PNG

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Think and Observe!

In this lesson we are going to study the ancient Roman Forum.

1. What was the Roman Forum?

1. Listening. Predicting the topic. Listen to your teacher reading a text.

1 What can you find in the Roman Forum?

4. Below youll see a reconstruction of the Roman Forum. Match the

Palatine Arch of Titus Coliseum Basilica di Maxentius House of Vestals

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