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Evolution of Transportation

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים לרמה בינונית.

Read the article below. 

The first mode of transportation was created in the effort to cross water: boats. Those who colonized Australia roughly 60,000–40,000 years ago have been credited as the first people to cross the sea, though there is some evidence that seafaring trips were carried out as far back as 900,000 years ago. The earliest known boats were simple log boats, which were made by hollowing out a tree trunk. 

Next, came horses. While it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when humans first began training them as a means of getting around and transporting goods, experts generally go by the emergence of certain human biological and cultural markers that indicate when such practices started to take place. Archaeological records show that the first wheeled vehicles were in use around 3500 BCE, with evidence of the existence of such contraptions found in Mesopotamia, the Northern Caucuses, and Central Europe. In 1769, the Watt steam engine changed everything. The submarine was invented in 1620 by Dutchman Cornelis Drebbel. Built for the English Royal Navy, Drebbel’s submarine could stay submerged for up to three hours. At the start of the twentieth century, the world’s the first airplane was invented it was truly the dawn of a new era in the history of transportation as two American brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, pulled off the first aircraft official powered flight in 1903.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • Colonized /ˈkɑləˌnaɪzd/ verb התיישב

    to send people to live in and govern another country

    Britain colonized many parts of Africa.

  • Emergence /ɪˈmɜrʤəns/ verb הִתהַוּוּת

    to become known or develop as a result of something

    The emergence of small Japanese cars in the 1970s challenged the US and European manufacturers.

  • Contraptions /kənˈtræpʃənz/ noun חטאות

    an awkward or old-fashioned looking device or machine

    Early cameras were large and expensive contraptions.

  • Submerge /səbˈmɜrʤd/ verb לִצְלוֹל

    to go below the surface of an area of water

    The car was submerged under 20 feet of water.

  • Dawn /dɔn/ noun שַׁחַר

    (of a day or period) to begin

    In the late 1970s, the dawn of the new computer era begins.

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘transportation’?
  2. What do you think is the most dangerous form of transportation and why?
  3. What form of transport is worst for the environment?
  4. If you were a mode of transportation, what would you be?
  5. What mode of transportation would you like someone to invent?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. Based on the article, What was the first mode of transportation?

  2. Based on the article who piloted the first-ever helicopter flight?

  3. Where did they find evidence of using animals as transportation?

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