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CLIL History

Transport

Factfile

No one knows exactly when the wheel or boats were invented, BC (Before Christ) or BCE (Before
but archaeologists have found remains from about these dates. Common Era) means before year 0.
AD (Anno Domini) or CE (Common
50,000 BC 3,500 BC 0 185 AD Era) means after year 0.
boat wheel wheelbarrow A decade is ten years. A century is one
hundred years. A millennium is one
thousand years.

1 Add three means of transport to each list:

Land Sea Air
train ship plane

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2 Complete the timeline showing when these means of transport were invented. Then
CD2
listen and check.

space shuttle helicopter bicycle car steam train hovercraft

1783 1802 1827 1829 1867 1879 1885
hot air steam ship motorbike electric train
balloon

1903 1909 1912 1942 1950 1961 1977
plane diesel train space rocket manned
spacecraft

3 Answer the questions.

1 Which were invented first, diesel trains or electric trains?
2 How many years ago was the hot air balloon invented?
3 When did man first travel in space?
4 How many years after the first bicycle was the motorbike invented?

WEBQUEST
Find out:
How did immigrants from Latin America, Europe and Asia travel to the gold fields in
California in the 1840s?
How has international travel changed since then?

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