Greeks versus Chinese inventions

Greek inventions mentioned in Wikipedia:

Light house

Alarm clock

Odometre

repeating crossbow

cannon

Fire hose

Water pumps

Cisterns

Water mill

Rail

Gears

Cranes, winches and levers

Lockable doors

Plumbing (double action principle)

Spiral staircase

Grid street plan

Showers

Central heating

Astrolabe

three-mast ship

Air pump

Surveying tools

Analog computers

Vending machines

Wind vane (weather cock)

Clock tower

automatic doors (steam-powered)

yo-yo

pinhole camera

mechanical theatres

hydraulic suspension

First try to guess what each invention is:

Which Greek inventions impress you more? - why?

Grammar: 

try writing some sentences about these inventions using "used to" or "didn't use to" (or "no longer")

E.g. Before central heating was invented, people used to sit by a fire to keep warm.

Or... After central heating was invented, people no longer needed to sit by the fir to keep warm.

Chinese

Paper

Printing

Movable type

Gunpowder / explosives

Compass

wooden coffin

earth / rock drill

nail polish

noodles

Combustion artillery

Bank notes

bellows

mechanised belt drive

Cast iron bomb

Spear gun

tooth brush

cast coinage

chopsticks

colour printing

repeating crossbow

football

dental fillings

yo-yo

forensic crime investigation

cluster bomb

gas lighting / gas piping

grid street planning

hand grenade

non-choking horse harness

innoculation

surveying tools

ship keel

land mine

kites

matches

autonomous vehicles

movable sails

rudders

gas as a fuel

underwater mine

oil refinery

parachute

pinhole camera

pipelines

mechanical theatres

raincoats

umbrellas

relief mapping

rotary fan air-conditioning

fingerprint authentication

seismometer

snap fastener

sunglasses

suspension bridge

tea bags

toilet paper

tuned bells

hot air baloons

wheel barrow

envelopes

zoetrope (cinematic visual animation)

Guess what these Chinese inventions are:

 

Practice using hypothetical tenses

 

Everyday Chinese Inventions

 

Paper

Printing

football

umbrellas

sunglasses

tea bags

 

Without _________ wouldn’t be able to…

If the Chinese hadn’t invented ____________, we would…

Imagine there were no ______________ - how…                                                                            ?

If we didn’t have (the) ______________,

 

Which Chinese inventions impress you more? - why?

Grammar: 

try writing some sentences about these inventions using "used to" or "didn't use to" (or "no longer")

E.g. Before matches were invented, people used to...

Or... After matches were invented, people no longer needed to...

Or... People didn't used to....     before 

Light house

Alarm clock

Odometer

repeating crossbow

cannon

Fire hose

Water pumps

Cisterns

Water mill

Rail

Gears

Cranes, winches and levers

Lockable doors

Plumbing (double action principle)

Spiral staircase

Grid street plan

Showers

Central heating

Astrolabe

three-mast ship

Air pump

Surveying tools

Analog computers

Vending machines

Wind vane (weather cock)

Clock tower

automatic doors (steam-powered)

yo-yo

pinhole camera

mechanical theatres

hydraulic suspension

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Printing

Movable type

Gunpowder / explosives

Compass

wooden coffin

earth / rock drill

nail polish

noodles

Combustion artillery

Bank notes

bellows

mechanised belt drive

Cast iron bomb

Spear gun

toothbrush

cast coinage

chopsticks

colour printing

repeating crossbow

football

dental fillings

yo-yo

forensic crime investigation

cluster bomb

gas lighting

grid street planning

hand grenade

non-choking horse harness

inoculation

surveying tools

ship keel

land mine

kites

matches

autonomous vehicles

movable sails

rudders

gas as a fuel

underwater mine

oil refinery

parachute

pinhole camera

pipelines

mechanical theatres

raincoats

umbrellas

relief mapping

rotary fan air-conditioning

fingerprint authentication

seismometer

snap fastener

sunglasses

suspension bridge

tea bags

toilet paper

tuned bells

hot air balloons

wheelbarrow

envelopes

zoetrope (cinematic visual animation)

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