Look at the picture. Answer the questions in pairs.
1. What do you know about Marco Polo?
2. Where did he travel? How do you think he traveled?
Look at the picture. Answer the questions in pairs.
1. What do you know about Marco Polo?
2. Where did he travel? How do you think he traveled?
Read the text.
Write each word in blue next to the correct definition or synonym.
1. _set off_ started a journey
2. _____ giving and receiving
3. _____ difficult
4. _____ buying and selling
5. _____ printed and sold
6. _____ a very soft cloth
7. _____ chances
Complete each sentence with a blue word.
1. Traveling provides people with many ____________ to learn about different cultures and customs.
2. We use ____________ to make beautiful dresses and shirts.
3. Marco Polo ____________ for China in 1271.
4. Living in a foreign country can be very ____________ at first.
5. Today, there is a lot of ____________ between China and Europe.
Write questions using the words provided and the correct form of 'used to'. Ask a partner your questions.
1. people / travel - How did people use to travel?
2. trade / take longer
3. clothes / people / wear
4. merchants / trade
Complete the conversation. Then, listen and check your answers.
didn't travel use used used to
Sue: Why did people (1) __________ to travel by horse?
Aki: Well, there (2) __________ use to be other transportation.
Sue: OK, but did everyone use to (3) ____________ that way?
Aki: No, in some parts of the world, they (4) ___________ use camels, not horses. Why are you so interested in how people (5) ____________ to travel?
Sue: I'm writing about transportation in the past for my history class.
Make a list of things that were different 100 years ago where you live.
1. Complete the chart.
Before | Now | |
transportation | horse - drawn veicles | motor vehicles |
communication | ||
trade | ||
home life | ||
education | ||
beliefs |
2. In pairs, describe what people used to do in the past. Use the topics in the chart and your own ideas.