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Inventions That Changed the World
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Inventions That Changed the World

Explore famous Victorian inventions like trains, telegraphs, photography, factories, and early medicine in this engaging B1 ESL lesson for teens. Students build historical vocabulary, practice speaking and reading skills, and discuss how technology changed the world.

Skills

  • to talk about important Victorian inventions and explain how they changed people’s lives.
60 minB1 (Intermediate)TeensGroupSpeakingReadingWritingVocabularyTechnologyTransportHistoryFree
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Discuss the questions.

1
What technology do you use every day?
2
Could you live without your phone for a week?
3
What inventions changed the world the most?
4
What do you think life was like 150 years ago?
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Points
2

Match the words to the definitions.

3

Read the text. What Victorian inventions influence your life today?

4

Choose the correct answer.

5

Find sentences in the text that show:

6

Complete the sentences with the correct words.

7

Speaking: The Most Important Invention.

8

Write a Victorian news report.

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