Transport

Transport (n,v)- define

noun a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place. a system of vehicles, for example buses, trains, and aircraft, for getting from one place to another

Am I a transport?

verb take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.

Write as many means of transport as possible in 2 mins

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Am I a transport?

A shopping cart (American English), trolley (British English, Australian English)

Ferry Race car Camper Car Subway Catamaran Bike Boat Train Truck Scooter Tow truck Skateboard Jeep Rocket Delivery truck Motorcycle Submarine Glider Golf cart Taxi Garbage Truck Helicopter Kayak Hot air balloon Van Yacht Canoe Zeppelin Snowmobile Train Ambulance Sailboat Plane Tank ship

Read each one of the sentences and try to guess the mean of transportation that the sentence refers to.

This means of transportation is used to go to spaceTwo examples of two-wheeled vehicles are __________ and __________ This means of transport is capable of going underwater This means of transport is used exclusively to transport people with a serious illnesses. This is used to move damaged vehicles This is used for winter travel and recreation It is moved by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board An automobile built or modified for racing Vehicles specialized to deliver different types of goods A small vehicle created to carry golfers Vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation Vehicle for hire with a driver This aircraft is capable of moving vertically and horizontally

Am I a transport?

Read the texts and guess the means of transport

How do the texts differ? Find as many differences as you can.

Which text contains something unusual?

On Wednesday 10th April 1912 shortly after 12noon, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton’s White Star Dock on her maiden voyage to New York.Her commander was Captain Edward J. Smith, RD, RNR, who had arrived early that morning in preparation for the Board of Trade muster at 8am. As the liner departed, the huge amount of water she displaced almost caused a collision with SS New York.

The first steam-powered vehicle was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65-centimetre-long (26 in) scale-model toy for the Kangxi Emperor that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger.

Starting in the 1500s, wagonways were introduced to haul material from mines; from the 1790s, stronger iron rails were introduced. Following early developments in the second half of the 1700s, in 1804 a steam locomotive built by British inventor Richard Trevithick

Wind Song Viking Passat Esmeralda Mercator Lady Elizabeth Santa Maria Manuela Royal Albatross Sea Cloud Black Pearl Rainbow Warrior

Work in groups Discuss why ships are a SHE Find as many possible ideas as you can. Break your leg)

Relax

Homework

While watching try to define the word transport as a noun and a verb. What was the crucial invention in evoluition of transportation? Do you think that scateboard is a mean of transport or not?