Lego is 60 Years Old – level 1

07-02-2018 07:00

In 1934, a Danish man makes Lego bricks. He names them ‘Lego’ after two Danish words. The words mean ‘play well’.

In 1958, people patent Lego bricks. Now the company is 60 years old. Now it says that you can play with one of its bricks in 915,103,765 ways!

The company also works with film businesses. It wants to keep the toy interesting. In addition, Lego has theme parks. The parks are around the world. They show famous places made out of the toys.

Difficult words: Lego brick (a small toy brick that you can use to build things), patent (when the government says that a company can be the only one to make something for some time), theme park (parks like Legoland or Disneyland).

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