Shipping Container Answers

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Busy container port

True or false

Read the sentences. Choose the correct answer.

  1. F (1970s and 1980s)
  2. F (the owner of a trucking company)
  3. T
  4. F (need special equipemnt to lift containers)
  5. T

Synonym match

MATCH THE WORD OR PHRASE ON THE LEFT WITH THE CORRECT SYNONYM.

1. slow – d. inefficient
2. manufacture – a. make
3. volume – e. quantity
4. transform – c. change
5. products – b. cargo  

ESL listening activity: anagrams

MOVE THE LETTERS. MAKE A WORD FROM THE ESL LISTENING STORY.

  1. HCMENISA – machines
  2. PERAHCE – cheaper
  3. GRICNUKT – trucking
  4. RNTIUDYS – industry
  5. IOFASTECR – factories
  6. ECFTIFNEI – efficient

Writing practice

Write the sentences. Put the words in the correct order.

  1. Moving small boxes by hand was no longer necessary.
  2. That change was possible because of one man and a metal box.
  3. The history of the shipping container goes back to 1956.
  4. In those days, shipping was slow.
  5. Before containers, the average port worker could load 1.7 tonnes per hour.