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What would have happened if..?

10 People Killed By Their Own Inventions
1) Discuss.

 Who invented television?

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Who invented the internet?
What famous inventors do you know?
 What did they invent?
 What modern activities did they make possible?
 What do you think have been the most important inventions in history?

2) "10 people who were killed by their own inventions"

BEFORE YOU WATCH.

 Look at the list of inventors and inventions below. Match the name with what you think is the correct invention.
 The inventors were killed by their own inventions. How do you think they died?

WATCH THE VIDEO AND CHECK.

3) Think.

All of the inventors were killed by their own inventions. If they had known...

 What would the inventors have changed?

 What would they have done differently?

4) LET’S PLAY! HOW MUCH CAN YOU REMEMBER? You are going to write the beginning of a sentence related to the video, and
your partner has to complete it. Then, switch roles. (Watch the video again if you need to check.)

BEGINNING ENDING
5) Practise. Reflect on the past. Think. Imagine.

In the last 12 months...

 What would you have done if you'd had more time?

 Would you have studied more English?
 What would you have done differently if you'd had other choices?
 If you had known a year ago what you know now, what would or wouldn't you have done differently in the last 12
months?

In your childhood…

 What would you have changed in your childhood?

 What things wouldn't you have done?

6) Let’s play! Watch the pictures and make sentences explaining how things would
have been done differently.

7) Read the following text about inventors. While doing so, answer:

 Who are the top 9 most popular inventors?

 What did they invent?

INVENTIONS
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) developed the tin foil phonograph. A prolific producer, Edison is also known
for his work with light bulbs, electricity, film and audio devices.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1869) invented his telephone.

George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an agricultural chemist who invented three hundred uses
for peanuts and hundreds of more uses for soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes; and changed the
history of agriculture in the south.

Eli Whitney (1765-1825) invented the cotton gin in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates
seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) is remembered as the inventor of mechanical television (an earlier version
of television). Baird also patented inventions related to radar and fiber optics.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, and the odometer.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) improved the "assembly line" for automobile manufacturing, received a patent
for a transmission mechanism, and popularized the gas-powered car with the Model-T.

James Naismith (1861-1939) was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in
1891.

Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented a punch-card tabulation machine system for statistical
computation. Herman Hollerith's great breakthrough was his use of electricity to read, count, and sort
punched cards whose holes represented data gathered by the census-takers.
8) Make some sentences in the 3rd conditional using the info from activity 7. Imagine...

If Thomas Edison hadn't invented the light bulb, …..

Use the assignment about PROCESSES OF PRODUCTION and analyse it.

 If one of the steps changes, all the production changes as well.

 Select 5 you think are the most essential in this production.

 Imagine that one of the employees didn’t follow the steps strictly.

 Think how things could have been different if these steps had been

followed strictly.

 Write a short text using 3rd conditional.