Oral presentation

The horse

My name is Claudia, I am in 4th ESO and I going to talk about one of my favorite things: The Horse.

First I will talk a little about the history of the horse and modern horses.

Then I will go on to explain the different types of horses and kinds of movement. And finally I will talk about horses age.

Did you know that?
The horse was first domesticated around 4.580 BC. The first horse was called Przewalski's horse and it was very small (1,50 m high).

Horses were used by man to pull heavy objects.
They were also used in warfare to pull chariots – for example the Romans – and to carry knights into battle in the middle ages.

Horses are hot-bloods, used in racing and cold-bloods. The hot-bloods are fast and intelligent. For example: Arabian and Thoroughbred. The cold-bloods are strong and calm. They are used to pull heavy things. For example: Clydesdale and Belgian.

The horse has 3 basic movements:
The walk
The canter or trot.
The gallop. An average gallop is 40-48 km per hour. When, a horse gallops it lifts all 4 legs off the ground for a split second.

Age:
The horse today lives from 25 to 30 years. However, a horse “Old Billy” lived to the age of 62 in the 19h-century.
Sugar Puff, the world's oldest living pony in the Guinness Book of world Records, died in 2007, aged 56.

To finish, I will say that horses have been good friends of man, and they are now also. Are there any questions?