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The printing press
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Follow causes and effects in an academic lecture.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- movable type
- Single metal letters that can be arranged to print pages.
- rare
- Not common.
- spread
- To move to more places or people.
Answer key
- Before the printing press, books were copied by hand.“Were copied” is a passive.
- This made them extremely expensive and rare.The stress in “extremely” is on “treme”.
- Gutenberg's use of movable type changed everything.Names start with a capital letter; the ’s shows possession. British “moveable” is also accepted.
- Within decades, printed books were available across Europe.“Within decades” means after only a few decades, a short time in history.
- Historians link this change to the rapid spread of new ideas.Both words in “rapid spread” are stressed.