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  • Dan: Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English

  • and today I'm going to tell you the difference

  • between those two confusing words

  • history and story.

  • Both words are used for a description

  • of events. So that makes them the same, right?

  • WRONG! They are not the same.

  • History is the description or study of past

  • events based on fact, often to understand

  • their consequences. 'Christopher

  • Columbus arrived in America in 1492.'

  • A story is the description of a series of

  • real or imagined events, often to entertain

  • people. 'After arriving in America in 1492,

  • Columbus and his crew were attacked by a giant

  • man-eating T-Rex dinosaur!' That didn't

  • happen! It's just a story.

  • Sohistory is the description of past

  • events based on fact and stories are descriptions

  • of real or imagined events often to entertain.

  • Leave us a comment about a piece

  • of history or an imagined story from your culture!

  • We'll try and guess which is which!

Dan: Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English

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