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Dan: Hi, I’m Dan from BBC Learning English
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and today I’m going to tell you the difference
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between those two confusing words
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history and story.
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Both words are used for a description
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of events. So that makes them the same, right?
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WRONG! They are not the same.
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History is the description or study of past
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events based on fact, often to understand
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their consequences. 'Christopher
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Columbus arrived in America in 1492.'
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A story is the description of a series of
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real or imagined events, often to entertain
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people. 'After arriving in America in 1492,
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Columbus and his crew were attacked by a giant
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man-eating T-Rex dinosaur!' That didn’t
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happen! It’s just a story.
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So… history is the description of past
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events based on fact and stories are descriptions
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of real or imagined events often to entertain.
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Leave us a comment about a piece
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of history or an imagined story from your culture!
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We’ll try and guess which is which!
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