Intended for young teenagers, this title ranges from the cartoon adventures of the "Sky Gang" to the 'Explore the Grammar Forest' sections. It offers a grammatical syllabus and a unit structure that makes it easy to teach. It also includes an "In Transit" magazine that provides revision and cultural exploration through quizzes, reports, and facts.
Intended for young teenagers, this title ranges from the cartoon adventures of the "Sky Gang" to the 'Explore the Grammar Forest' sections. It offers a grammatical syllabus and a unit structure that makes it easy to teach. It also includes an "In Transit" magazine that provides revision and cultural exploration through quizzes, reports, and facts.
Intended for young teenagers, this title ranges from the cartoon adventures of the Sky Gang to the 'Explore the Grammar Forest' sections. It offers a grammatical syllabus and a unit structure that makes it easy to teach. It also includes an In Transit magazine that provides revision and cultural exploration through quizzes, reports and facts.
The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the British Government spent a vast amount of money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. Hundreds of expeditions were organized by countries across the globe to collect data on the transits of 1874 and 1882, using the most up-to-date astronomical instruments and new photographic methods.Like the Great Exhibitions which were so popular at the time, the transits of Venus caught the public's imagination.
The New York City Subway System (Building America: Then and Now)
Teeming with a population of 3.5 million at the end of the 19th century, the island of Manhattan couldn't meet the city's demand for rapid transit with its horse-drawn trolleys and elevated train lines. New York City needed a subway system. After four years of digging and diverting miles of utilities and tunneling under the Harlem River, the city's residents celebrated a new era in mass transit on October 27, 1904, with the opening of a nine-mile subway route.
