When did they invent these things? Talk to your friend. Tell the class your ideas.
We think they invented the MP3 player ten years ago.
How many years ago?
the computer
the Internet
the telephone
the mobile phone
the cassette
2
the television
the MP3 player
5
10
15
20
25
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
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five
ten
fifteen
twenty
twenty-five
thirty
forty
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
a hundred
a hundred and …
the DVD player
Listen to Professor Know It All. Write the year and match the place
for the inventions. Then check your answers for Exercise 1.
Year
Place
1 the Internet
Holland
2 the cassette
3 the computer
4 the television
1946
the USA
Japan
5 the mobile phone
6 the telephone
7 the MP3 player
8 the DVD player
40
Korea
Switzerland
3
Think. Match the events and the dates. Listen and check your answers.
People invented the first vehicles with wheels in Iraq in 3500 BC.
How did we travel?
3500 BC
300 BC
Romans started to use roads.
1100
People in Europe travelled in wagons.
1700
1820
In England, the first steam train service started.
1840
In Scotland, a man invented the first bicycle.
1860
In London, the first underground train service opened.
1880
Electric trains services started in England.
1890
1900
In the USA, the Wright brothers flew 37 metres in an aeroplane.
1960
1976
Concorde, the supersonic aeroplane, started flying from London to New York.
1981
In Iraq, people invented the
first vehicles with wheels.
Space shuttles started
flying into space.
The first man, a Russian,
travelled into space.
In England, they invented
the steam engine.
In France, they invented the
first car with a petrol engine.
Cover the information. Test your friends!
When did the first man travel into space?
The first man travelled into space in …
YOUR
PROJECT
Find out about some important inventions.
Write about:
● who invented them
● where, when and why they invented them
● how the inventions work