Inventions!

Hi bodies

Those are some little readings about useful inventions for human beings. Read them and then create a story by using that information and use vocabulary from the other posts in the blog.

Good luck!

Hot Air Balloons

The Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot air balloon in 1782. It was made of paper. A year later, the Montgolfier balloon carried its first passenger – a rooster, a sheep and a duck! Hot air balloons are still used to travel, to sightsee and even to race. But today, they’re made of cloth or rubber instead of paper. And they’re certainly not used to transport farm animals.

Contact Lenses

Today, we use contact lenses to see better, and some people use them to change their eye color. The first contact lenses were made of heavy and dark glass. Then, in 1948, Kevin Tuohy made a breakthrough in contact lenses technology, but his contacts were still thick and sniff. In the 1970s, scientists created the soft plastic lenses that many people wear today.

Taken from Backpack 5, p. 76. Pearson. Longman