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Inventions- Random Pelmanisms

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Present and historic inventions vocabulary matching game

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Inventions random pelmanism

History for ESL students/ Technical English

 

Task 1 – Matching game

Take turns trying to match older inventions on the left with ones we use now on the right, and say why they are connected, e.g. that they do the same thing or use the same kind of power. Any kind of connection you can come up with is okay. Your teacher will tell you if you should match cut-up cards or just match words from the worksheet.

 

Steam engine

 

 

Smoke signals

 

Fax

 

PDA

 

Chariot

 

 

Fountain pen

 

Pacemaker

 

MP3 player

 

Messenger pigeon

 

 

Horse and cart

 

Mobile phone/ Smartphone

 

Nuclear power station

 

The telegraph

 

 

Sundial

 

Digital watch

 

Sewing machine

 

Charcoal

 

 

Bronze dagger

 

GPS

 

Internet

 

Flint tools

 

 

Spear

 

Rifle

 

Photocopier

 

Kite

 

 

Camel train

 

Articulated lorry

 

Scanner

 

Compass

 

 

Woodblock printing

 

Jet foil

 

Paper

 

 

Carbon paper

 

 

Needle

 

Tank

 

Ballpoint pen

 

Papyrus

 

Candles

 

 

Machine gun

 

Solar panels

 

Gas lighting

 

Sailing ship/ galleon

 

 

Dynamite

 

 

Phillips screwdriver

 

Quill and ink

 

Cross bow

 

Digital camera

 

 

Air conditioning

 

Catapult

 

 

Battering ram

 

Chain saw

 

Rocket launcher

 

Horseshoes

 

 

Stirrups

 

 

Shotgun

 

Laser eye surgery

 

Woodblock printing

 

 

Windmill

 

Automatic pencil

 

 

Calculator

 

Barrel organ

 

 

Gunpowder

 

Elevator

 

Hybrid car

 

Bone tools

 

 

Cave paintings

 

Taser

 

USB flash drives

 

Bellows

 

 

Cannon

 

Stapler

 

Cloud seeding

 

Axe

 

 

Musket

 

Jet ski

 

Video games

 

Pocket watch

 

 

Grandfather clock

 

Laser Quest

 

Massage chairs

 

Monocle

 

 

Slide rule

 

Microscope

 

MRI

 

Dumb waiter

 

 

Invisible ink

 

X ray

 

Breathalyser

 

Parchment

 

 

(Spinning) top

 

Organ transplant

 

Space shuttle

 

Cutthroat razor

 

 

Coal gas

 

Microwave

 

Disposable razor

 

Archimedes’ screw

 

 

Carpet sweeper

 

Hoover (= Vacuum cleaner)

 

3D movies

 

Task 2 – Discussion questions

Do you think any of the things on the left are still used?

Which of the things (on both sides) do you think will still be used in 2050?

Why might some of the things used now not be used in 2050?

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