Lesson 3A: Making the modern world

A Words, words, words

Think and say!

A1 Study the words.

B Reading

B1 Listen and read the text about invention of the wheel.

Throughout history, people got ideas for their inventions from nature. But the wheel is a completely human idea. The first wheel dates back to the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. No one knows for sure who invented it, but we know it happened in Mesopotamia. 

The first transportation wheel came along some three centuries later in ancient Greece. The Greeks were the first to build wheelbarrows. Carts, chariots and other vehicles soon followed. Wheels didn’t only revolutionise transport: they were used in windmills and watermills, as spinning wheels and much more.

A2 Match the words.
Match the pictures with the words.
Match the English words with their Croatian translation. Copy them into your notebook.
B2 Listen and read the text about the compass.
B3 Listen and read the text about the printing press.

Do the exercises.
B4 Unjumble the questions and answer them.
B5 Choose the correct words, make questions and answer them.
B6 Use the correct form of the verb, make questions and answer them.

C Listening and reading

C1 Listen and read the presentation about pencilin.

Hello, everyone.
     I’m going to talk about penicillin. Its discovery in the early 20th century changed the world completely. So what is penicillin, who discovered it, and why is it important?
     In 1928, the Scottish doctor and scientist, Alexander Fleming, was experimenting with bacteria. Bacteria are small living things that cause infections and diseases. One day, he noticed that bacteria weren’t growing round a certain mould in his Petri dishes. He wanted to know what was going on and experimented some more. The result of his efforts was penicillin: a powerful antibiotic. Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria. Imagine you fall off a bicycle and hurt yourself. If your wound gets infected, and you don’t get penicillin or some other antibiotic on time, you could die!
    To sum up, the discovery of penicillin helped cure many infections and diseases, from simple cuts and scratches to serious conditions that used to end in death. It has saved millions of lives.

D My Everyday English

Giving presentation
D1 Match the words.
D2 How to organise a speech? Match the parts with the content.
D3 Copy the phrases you can use in your speech correctly.

Lesson 3A: Making the modern world

A Words, words, words

Think and say!
A1 Study the words.
A2 Match the words.

B Reading and listening

B1 Listen and read the text about invention of the wheel and do the exercises.

Throughout history, people got ideas for their inventions from nature. But the wheel is a completely human idea. The first wheel dates back to the Bronze Age, around 3500 BC. No one knows for sure who invented it, but we know it happened in Mesopotamia. 

The first transportation wheel came along some three centuries later in ancient Greece. The Greeks were the first to build wheelbarrows. Carts, chariots and other vehicles soon followed. Wheels didn’t only revolutionise transport: they were used in windmills and watermills, as spinning wheels and much more.
B2 Listen and read the text about the compass and do the exercise.
B3 Listen and read the text about invention of the printing press and do the exercise.
B4 Unjumble the questions and answer them.
B5 Choose the correct words, make questions and answer them.
B6 Use the correct form of the verb, make questions and answer them.

C Listening and reading - presentations

C1 Listen and read the presentation about pencilin.

D My Everyday English

Giving presentation

D1 Match the words.
D2 How to organise a speech? Match the parts with the content.
D3 Copy the phrases you can use in your speech correctly.