The Car: How the World Got Faster

All levels48 minHistoryLesson 3 of 6 · Outline

Aims

From a noisy machine that frightened horses to a world built around parking spaces. The car and what it did to our streets, for B1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 149-word news story: The machine that rebuilt the street

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    6 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Two streets

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: How you travel

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The bargain we made

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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