Inventions

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Know it ll!

Inventions

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

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