📖 Lesson A2 Reading🏠 Everyday Life

🍫 How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident

In 1945, an American engineer named Percy Spencer was working with a machine called a magnetron, which produced invisible waves called microwaves. He noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Curious, he experimented with popcorn and an egg — and accidentally invented one of the most important kitchen machines in history.

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  • True story with vocabulary highlights

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  • Past simple for narrative
  • Past continuous for background
  • Time expressions
  • Adjectives for description
  • Sequencing words

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