Answer the questuons. Was there any influence of steam locomotion?

Was there any influence of steam locomotion?

Was the result in the world of development roads in Britain?

Who was the author of the gauge?

Did France make any efforts in railroad development?

4.Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following words and expressions:

steam locomotion

head-and-shoulders start

steam-worked railway

a great deal from practice

to lay out the main lines

to pioneer railways

to develop and expand trains

head-and-shoulders start

steam-worked railway

a great deal from practice

to lay out the main lines

to pioneer railways

to develop and expand trains

head-and-shoulders start in world

the first public steam-worked railway

learnt a great deal from Stephenson's practice

early Continental railways were also built by English engineers.

5.Complete the sentences:

The experiments with steam locomotion in England did not go unnoticed…

The first public steam-worked railway in France was..

They were built by Marc Seguin, a French engineer who …

His design solved a number of the problems…

British machines and men also pioneered railways..

But in Europe the tasks of railway building was taken …

Make up dialogues using the text.

Supplementary tasks:

Text: The First Railways in Europe(IІ)