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• Scan the story quickly.
• Read the story carefully.
• Visualize the details.
• Remember the sequence of events.

The Ski-Doo Maker

Armand Bombardier grew up in Valcourt, Quebec. Even when he was a young boy, he said that he wanted to make a machine that he could move over deep snow without sinking in. For more than ten years he worked on his machine.

Finally, in 1936, he produced his first snowmobile. It was a large machine with tracks like a bulldozer. The snowmobile could carry several people in a closed cabin.

Armand Bombardier started a new industry in Valcourt to make snowmobiles. The industry grew until more than half the men in town worked at manufacturing snowmobiles. People from all over the world who wanted to travel on snow or soft muskeg bought Bombardier machines.

All the time Bombardier worked to build a smaller and lighter machine. He wanted one that would go really fast and not sink into the snow. At the same time, he wanted a machine that would be cheap and easy to run in very cold northern Canada.

After years of work, the Ski-doo was born. It could do all the same things that Bombardier wanted it to do. It did not cost very much to manufacture. With it he could roar across deep snow at 50 miles an hour, bouncing up and down happily over the drifts and bumps. Soon he was selling Skidoos as fast as he could make them.

Adapted from, Intermediate English Skills Development Series Book 3, 3C Sequence of Events