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Lesson 18 · Transportation and Communication

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English, Class 9 · Unit 18

Transportation and Communication

The Wright Brothers · A rickshaw poem · The language of comparison

What you will be able to do

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Retell the story of the Wright brothers and the poem Rickshaw Ride

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Compare things using adjectives, adverbs and the three degrees

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Write an interpretation of a bar chart

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Use rising and falling intonation and listen for details

The road to the first flight

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1889: the brothers start a printing business
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Three years later: their first bicycle shop opens
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1899: aeronautical research begins with a five foot kite
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1900: the first piloted machine goes to Kitty Hawk
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1902: a rudder completes the three axis controls
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1903: the Flyer flies 37 metres in 12 seconds
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1904: the first circular flight, 1,244 metres

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Presenter notes: This unit is about how people and messages move, and about the English we use to compare things. We will read how two bicycle mechanics invented the airplane, meet an old rickshaw puller in a poem, and learn to compare with adjectives and adverbs.