Q4.6 Inventions

Warm up: Brain­storm­ing

1
What are the most im­port­ant in­ven­tions in his­tory? Go to https://www.menti.com/ to an­swer.

Group Work:

2
These are 10 im­port­ant in­ven­tions. You should work to­gether in groups to put the in­ven­tions in chro­no­lo­gical order. Do not check them from the in­ter­net. Each group should write their own list on the board.

Note: The group who can reach the closest date for each in­ven­tion will get 1 point. If you know the exact date, you get 2 more points.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

An­swers

the in­ter­net



1969

light bulb



1906

tele­phone

1876

re­fri­ger­ator

1850

braille

1829

ther­mo­meter

1593

mi­cro­scope

1590

print­ing

1440

paper

100

wheel

3500 BC

TOTAL Points

Speak­ing:

3
You should study in pairs, A and B. Stu­dents in pairs take turns to choose an in­ven­tion from the list and to talk about its pos­it­ive and neg­at­ive ef­fects. You should speak for about 2 minutes about each in­ven­tion.

In­ven­tion

Neg­at­ive Ef­fects

Pos­it­ive Ef­fects

Beis­piel: In­ter­net

se­cur­ity prob­lems

reach­ing in­form­a­tion so fast



Q4.6 Inventions

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