Презентация урока (Lesson 8) к учебнику "Project 4" (3rd edition) by Tom Hutchinson, James Gault. Издательство Oxford University Press.

English across the curriculum

History: materials

Read and listen to the text. Tick the materials that are mentioned.

Put the materials that you ticked in the correct historical order.

plastic

iron

bronze

copper

stone

1. gold, silver and copper

2. They probably put some rocks round a fire

and fire melted the metal.

3. a mixture (an alloy) of copper and tin

4. it is stronger

5. iron is a very common mineral

6. People discovered how to use coal instead of

charcoal.

7. Synthetic materials are made by separating

the molecules of other materials.

Race

• seven kinds of metal
• four things that Bronze Age people built
• four things that people built in the Industrial Revolution
• four kinds of plastic

Answer key

• copper, gold, silver, bronze, tin, iron, steel
• houses, palaces, temples, (huge) monuments
• machines, steam engines, bridges, railways
• Bakelite, PVC, polystyrene, nylon

• aluminium
• bronze
• nylon
• polystyrene
• tin
• iron
• gold
• silver

• charcoal
• alloy
• ore
• bone
• copper
• steel
• stone
• plastic

Find out

Do some research. Find out about one of the other materials in Ex.1a . Write a paragraph about its history.