12B: Reading - Unit 8, pg. 84 - Shipping Containers

Looking at the title of the article and the pictures, what do you think this article is about?

• The story of 3 people who traveled the world in a shipping container.

• Ships and the man who invented them.

• Shipping containers and the man who invented them.

• Three people who painted shipping containers pretty colors as art.

GUESS: How many men would it take to unload a large ship by hand in 2 weeks before the invention of standardized shipping containers?

• about 10

• about 100

• 25

• about 1,000

GUESS: When do you think standardized shipping containers became commonly used around the world?

• the 1920s

• the 1990s

• the 1880s

• the 1960s

What's the main idea of paragraph 1?

• Cargo ships are impressive, but the containers they carry have had a major impact on the modern world.

• Maersk Triple-E class container ships are the world’s largest man-made moving objects.

• Cargo ships are 399 meters long (the length of four soccer fields).

• Maersk Triple-E class container ships

McLean's idea...

• was quickly put into action.

• frustrated him.

• saved a lot of time at the docks.

• was to make bigger ships.

The main reason containers were revolutionary was that...

• they made it cheap to transport goods by sea.

• they could also go on trains and trucks.

• they allowed Japan to expport electronic goods.

• the different colors helped to organize them.

The aricle's main purpose is to...

• show how big container ships are.

• show how important the container is.

• tell us about Malcolm McLean.

• get us to buy more goods.

What do pronouns do?

• Show action.

• Describe nouns.

• Take the place of nouns.

• Name a person, place, thing, or idea.

Select all the words that are determiners:

• this

• the

• his

• which

• some

What do adverbs do?

• Describe or modify nouns.

• Describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.

• Connect parts of a sentence.

• Take the place of verbs.