The Pedaling History Bicycle Museum Student's Sheet

FROM SPROCKETS TO ROCKETS THE PEDALING HISTORY BICYCLE MUSEUM

New York City, USA

PRE-VIEWING ACTIVITY 1 Look at the bicycle parts in the picture below and circle the names that your teacher reads:

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ACTIVITY 2 a) You are going to watch a video of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum. What kind of information do you expect to learn from the vídeo? b) Are the following statements true of false? If you don’t know, make a guess. ( ) The first bicycle was made of wood. ( ) Bicycles were more important for the emancipation of women than the Industrial Revolution. ( ) Bicycles were used in wars. ( ) In the 40’s, children used to ride radio bicycles. ( ) The Wright brothers used bicycle parts to build their airplane. WHILE-VIEWING ACTIVITY 1 Watch the video “ From Sprockets to Rockets” and check your answers to the previous exercise. ACTIVITY 2 Watch the video again and write two pieces of information under the bicycles below:

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POST-VIEWING ACTIVITY 1 Here’s an excerpt from the video script. Read it and underline the sentences containing passive voice structures. Here we have the 1817 Draisienne, the first bicycle that was ridden on

two wheels. Primarily this machine is made of wood. It was almost 50 years later before the word bicycle was put in the dictionary. But the boneshaker was the first boom machine with pedals and that patent was first issued in 1866. The bigger the wheel, the faster you would go and the more efficient the machine was. Oh, I haven’t gotten on this a long time. ACTIVITY 2 Your teacher is going to give you some slips containing active voice sentences. Work in pairs to come up with the correspondent passive voice sentence.