ESL resources
inventions / discoveries
Inventions / discoveries
A Brilliant Invention - Alfredo Moser's bottle lamp
Graded reading text on Brazilian inventor Alfredo Moser's bottle lamp that uses sunlight and plastic water bottles to light homes and workplaces where electricity is unavailable or expensive. 553 words Intermediate level.
Graded reading text on Brazilian inventor Alfredo Moser's bottle lamp that uses sunlight and plastic water bottles to light homes and workplaces where electricity is unavailable or expensive. 553 words Intermediate level.
Unit 10 Genius Pages 93 - 94
(1) Ss guess when various objects were invented. (2) Listening, speaking and reading: Trevor Bayliss and the clockwork radion (project to build radios for rural areas of Africa) (3) Paragraphs about inventions gapped for time expressions.
(1) Ss guess when various objects were invented. (2) Listening, speaking and reading: Trevor Bayliss and the clockwork radion (project to build radios for rural areas of Africa) (3) Paragraphs about inventions gapped for time expressions.
Module 5 Unusual achievements Page 57 Speaking Task
Students listen to people talking about achievements and then work in groups to prepare a short talk on an achievement (invention / political advance etc.) they consider significant.
Students listen to people talking about achievements and then work in groups to prepare a short talk on an achievement (invention / political advance etc.) they consider significant.
13a & b What is it? Page 13
Ss in teams have to guess inventions from descriptions of them that use the passive voice.
Ss in teams have to guess inventions from descriptions of them that use the passive voice.
