Read the text and check your ideas. Where are
they from?
Great inventions are international,
but where are they from? Where is
the wheelchair from? How about
aspirin? And chocolate? Read and
find out!
Food
It's no surprise that pizza is from
Italy, the invention of an italian baket,
Raffaele Esposito: Switzerland is
famous for chocolate, but chocolate
is in fact from Central America, from
Medical And what about another food,
margarine? Well, margarine is the
invention of a Frenchman, Hippolyte
Mège-Mounes.
Communications
The word paper is from the Egyptian
word papyrus but paper is one of
the great inventions of ancient China
And the pencil? That's from England.
Now we don t communicate on paper
very much, but by email. Email is
the invention of an American, Ray
Tom inson, Tomlinson's first email was
QWERTYUIOP!
Health
Aspirin is from Germany, the invention
of Felix Hoffman, for his ill father.
And how about the wheelchair? The
wheelchair is a Spanish invention, The
first wheelchair was for King of
Spain in 1554.
Cover the text and write the invention for 1-5,
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Then read the text again and check your answers.
1 Raffaele Esposito
2 Felix Hoffman
3 Hippolyte Mouriès
4 King Phillip of Spain
5 Ray Tomlinson​