The Steam Engine: Powering the World
Odcinek serii Amazing Inventions
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Fragment · 30 sO odcinku
The invention that powers a new world. A kettle can show how steam pushes with great power; two clever inventors use this power to build the first trains and change how people travel.
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Przewodnik dydaktyczny
Objective & content
This documentary episode explains how the steam engine was invented and improved. It follows Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen, who built engines to pump water out of coal mines, then James Watt and Matthew Boulton, who made the engine use less coal, and Richard Trevithick, who put an engine on wheels in 1804. A kettle serves as a simple model of how steam creates push and power. The language focus is the past simple (regular and irregular verbs) with present simple explanations and vocabulary on inventions and transport. Learners practise listening comprehension and vocabulary building; the script describes the engine as a "special metal box".
Materials & prerequisites
- Student sheet and teacher sheet (HTML and PDF, in `printables/`).
- Prerequisites: the present simple, articles (a, an, the) and basic past simple forms such as made, was and had.
Curriculum alignment
Tagged c3-child-and-wider-environment: cycle 3 (6e). The episode targets CEFR level A1-.
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