《Trains Go Faster!》Go with Transportation! PPT

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《Trains Go Faster!》Go with Transportation! PPT

Part One: THINK ABOUT IT

How do you usually travel to other cities?

Talk about your first time taking a train.

In the 1700s, many scientists worked on steam engines. In the 1760s, a scientist in England found a way to put steam engines and wheels together.

Soon people had a new type of transportation: the steam train.

In 1804, the first train engine was born in England. It traveled only about fifteen kilometres in two hours. In 1825, the first passenger railway opened. The Rocket was the most famous early engine.

During the 1830s, countries all over the world started to build railways. Fifty years later many countries had railways. People built many train stations to help passengers get on and off the trains easily.

Trains Go Faster! PPT, Part 2: Language Points

1. In the 1700s, many scientists worked on steam engines.

In the 18th century, many scientists worked on inventing the steam engine.

in the 1700s in the 18th century

in the 1760s in the 1760s

1760-1769

1990s 1990s 1990-1999

work on engage in...; continue to work, work on

That teacher worked on in the office until ten o’clock last night.

The teacher worked in the office until ten o'clock last night.

The scientists are still working on inventing

new methods of reaching outer space.

Scientists are still working on inventing new ways to reach outer space.

2.In the 1760s, a scientist in England found a way to put steam engines and wheels together.

In the 1760s, a scientist invented a way to combine a steam engine with a wheel.

the + a year with the last two digits being an integer + s or ‘s means “….century…year”.

The famous scientist was born in the 1820s.

This famous scientist was born in the 1820s.

1820s pronounced eighteen twenties

1700s pronounced seventeen hundreds

way way, method

①+ infinitive (as postpositional attributive)

②+ of prepositional phrase (as postpositional attributive)

Another way of making new friends is to join a club.

Another way to make friends is to join a club.

He had a strange way of talking.

The way he talks is weird.

He has thought of a new way to deal with that problem.

He had thought of a new way to solve that problem.

Trains Go Faster! PPT, Part 3: Classroom Exercises

Complete the dialogues with the correct forms of the words in the box.

railway station speed passenger

Tom: Hello John. How are you doing?

John: Hi Tom. I’m doing well. Have you been to our new______________ ______________?

Tom: Not yet. How about you?

Tom: I went there last month. It’s bright and beautiful. It’s easy for___________to get on and off the train. It was exciting. The train went really fast. It can reach a top _____________of 500 kilometres an hour.

Tom: That’s really fast! I hope to ride it soon.

Read the passage and answer the questions.

Over two thousand years ago, Chinese people invented kites. Kites can fly like birds, but they can’t take people up into the sky. Hundreds of years later, the Wright brothers made the first successful experiment.

A machine carrying a man rose into the sky using its own energy. It was the first plane. Inventors went on to improve planes. Two engineers, Frank Whittle of the U.K. and Hans Von Ohain of Germany, developed the jet plane during the late 1930s .

1. Who invented kites?

2. Can kites take people up into the sky?

3. Where was Frank Whittle from?

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