5a Look at the picture and answer the questions.
1) Who can you see?
2) When do you think it is?
1900 1800 1700 1600
3) What are they doing?
4) What do you know about caravans?
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5b Read the text and give a title.
For many years, in the desert camels were
the only kind of transport. Before the
age of modern trains, camel trains carried
all the things between Central Asia and
Europe. People made camel trains with
10,000 to 15,000 animals.
animals. Each camel
could carry approximately 200 kilos and
could travel twenty miles* a day. This kind
of transport was so important that people
called camels the "ships of the desert'.