Inventions

Writing task: Describe an invention

Reply to Maxine’s blog post from Explore 1 and describe an everyday invention Useful language
that you use regularly. Write around 150 words. Useful phrases
• An everyday invention
Use the Useful language and the notes you made in the Engage task to help you
that I use a lot is...
prepare. • It was invented in (1900)
Tip  A blog post is usually neutral in style. Like in an article, a writer might ask by...
questions to the reader to create interest. First, think of an invention and then do some • Before that time...
research and plan your writing. • People used to...
Follow this structure: • It’s made of...
• It’s useful because...
• Paragraph 1: Say what it is, when it was invented, and by who. Say what happened
• I couldn’t live without it
before it was invented.
because...
• Paragraph 2: Say what it looks like and why it’s useful.
• As well as that, ...
• Paragraph 3: Give any other information about the invention.
Check it!  Read your blog post and check it’s organized clearly and makes sense. Useful vocabulary
Then read it again and check for grammar, vocabulary and spelling errors. • use / keep / carry
• metal / plastic / electric /
leather / paper
In the world, one of the main inventions that has revolutionized the world is the
• quick / fun / important
telephone, how and when did we become dependent on our phones?
• necessary / helpful /
An invention that every day we use and at all times is the telephone. It was invented by useful / convenient
Alexander Graham Bell in the year 1875. Before then people only communicated
through messages and letters sent to their relatives.
Currently, most people and especially young people live very dependent on them, it is
like a vice, which most badly spend time using the phone to do different activities
within it, on the other hand the main thing of the phone and with which I revolutionize
the whole world is that it is no longer necessary to make letters or other ways to send
a message, since it can be sent using the telephone.

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