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Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 7.1 Example: F 1) ____ 2) ____ 3) ____ 4) ____ 5) ____ 6) ____ Complete with the best word from the box.batteries invent invention imaginations problem solutions Example: First you need to put batteries in the toy. 2. The wheel is a(n) _______________ from a long time ago. 3. Kids are great inventors because they have great __________. 4. You can solve a(n) _______________ with an invention. 5. Do you think that someone will _____________ a time travelmachine someday? 6. Inventors use creativity to find _____________ to problems. Complete the sentence. Use use to or used to and the word(s) in parentheses.Example: Before there were cars, children didn't use to drive (not drive) to school. 7. Before there were televisions, people _____________ (tell) stories by the fire. 8. Before there were airplanes, people _____________ (not fly). 9. Before there was electricity, people _____________ (read) bycandlelight. 10. Why ____________ (people write) letters? They didn't have cell phones. 11. Before there were cars, people _______________ (ride) horses. How do you use things? Answer the question with you and words from the box. Answer with a complete sentence.call your friends and family clean your teeth cover your cutdrive to places put over your head in the rain watch shows Example: What do you do with a television? You use it to watch shows.12. What do you do with an umbrella? 13. What do you do with a cell phone? 14. What do you do with a toothbrush? 15. What do you do with a bandage? 16. What do you do with a car? Match.a. You push this button.b. You can use a candle or flashlight.c. You can take nice photos.d. You eat it!e. You go straight and then turn right. ____ 17. How do you start this video game? ____ 18. What do you do with a popsicle? ____ 19. What can you do with this cell phone? ____ 20. How do you get to the library? ____ 21. What do you do if you don’t have electricity? Write T for True or F for False. Creative Kids Did you know that a teenager had the first idea for a television? Kids are great inventors because they have a lot of creativity and imagination. When Frank Epperson was eleven years old, he left a cup with soda and a stick in his yard. That night he forgot about it. It was a very cold night. When he went outside the next morning, he found something amazing: a popsicle! ____ 22. Kids are not great inventors. ____ 23. Frank Epperson invented the popsicle when he was eleven years old. ____ 24. Frank's popsicle was made with frozen water and a stick. ____ 25. Frank forgot a cup in his yard on a warm night. Read The Inventor Thomas Edison Thomas Edison is often called America’s greatest inventor. He created more than 1,000 inventions in his lifetime. His favorite invention was the phonograph. People used to listen to music on phonographs. He also invented the microphone, batteries, an electric pen, and the electric light. Edison did many experiments with electricity, and he thought electric lights were the solution to the problems people had with candles and lamps. Edison thought electricity would be a safer way to give people light. Edison and his team tried many ways to create an electric light. In fact, they tried at least 3,000 ways! They worked on the idea for two years, from 1878 to 1880. At first, the lights only worked for a few hours at a time. Finally, Edison made a light that lasted for 2,000 hours. His idea worked! Edison wasn’t the only inventor working to create electric lights. Many other inventors worked on this problem, but Edison was the inventor that found the best solution. Choose the best answer. ____ 26. Edison created more than ________ inventions in his lifetime.a. 1,000 b. 1,878 c. 3,000 ____ 27. Edison’s favorite invention was the ________.a. electric light b. microphone c. phonograph ____ 28. Edison thought electric lights were ________ than candles and lamps.a. more dangerous b. safer c. cheaper ____ 29. The problem with electric lights was ________ to solve.a. difficult b. easy c. fast ____ 30. The first electric light worked for a few ________.a. minutes b. hours c. weeks Listen and write the name of the invention that is described. TR: 7.2 batteries bike flashlight money umbrella31. 1) ________________________ 2) ________________________ 3) ________________________ 4) ________________________ 5) ________________________ 32. There are so many great inventions like ice cream, bubble gum, and the hula hoop. Choose one of these inventions, or your favorite invention, and write your opinion of it. Explain howpeople use it and why you like it. Write 3 to 4 sentences. Include facts to support your opinion. Use words like in my opinion,I think, and I believe. 33. Speaking 34. Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 8.1 Example: G 1) ____ 2) ____ 3) 4) 5) 6) Complete the text with the best word from the box.alone avatar compete controller cooperate scoreSometimes I play video games (a)___, but usually I play with my little sister. She’s two years younger than me, but she’s better thanme. She always chooses a funny (b)___, like a purple dinosaur or a talking penguin. When we first started playing, I told her not to worryabout the (c)___. I didn’t want to her hurt her feelings when I got the most points. But from the first time she picked up the (d)___ and startedplaying, I knew I was in trouble. So now we play games where we don’t (e) ___ against each other. We play together and (f) ___ instead. It’s the only way I can win anymore! 35. (a) ___ 38. (d) _____ 36. (b) ___ 39. (e) _________ 37. (c) ___ 40. (f) __________ Join the two sentences. Use who.Example: I have a sister. She loves stuffed animals. I have a sister who loves stuffed animals.41. I have a grandmother. She loves to cook. 42. There is a girl in my class. She loves to dance. 43. I have a cousin. He loves to study dinosaurs. 44. I have an uncle. He likes computers. 45. My best friend is a creative person. She makes videos. Rewrite the sentence. Use to or for.Example: I gave her a flower. I gave a flower to her. 46. My cousin sent me a letter. 47. I made them a cake. 48. My father bought him a sandwich. 49. Don showed us the fossil. 50. I gave you the notebook. Unscramble the sentence.51. us / grandfather / ice cream / My / for / bought / . 52. Emma / a / great / birthday present / She / to / gave / . 53. a / us / cake / made / Theresa / for / . 54. I / comic books / a / friend / collects / who / have / . 55. The / boy / me / who sits / next to / nine years old / is / . Read and write T for True or F for False. ____ 56. Letterboxing is a hobby that is done inside. ____ 57. The letterbox has a notebook and stamp inside. ____ 58. A person puts clues on the internet to help you find the box. ____ 59. You put your name and address in the letterbox. Letterboxing “Letterboxing” is a fun outdoor hobby. Here's how it works: People hide a box with a stamp and a notebook. They post clues on websites to help you find the box. Then you look for the letterbox! You need to have your internet clues, a pen, and paper. When you find the letterbox, you write your name and date in the notebook. Then you stamp your paper. You leave the box where you found it for another person to find. Comic Books Comic books became popular almost a hundred years ago. In 1938, the first Superman comic book was made. Long ago, comic books were cheap, colorful, and easy to carry. The first comic book cost ten cents! After the 1950s, comic books weren’t as popular as before, but people still bought them. Today, there are thousands of different kinds of comic books that people can buy. Comic books are still cheap, but they cost a lot more than they did long ago. Today, they cost about four dollars each. How do we know that people still love comic books? In 2014, the most expensive comic book in the world sold for more than three million dollars. That’s amazing! Although comic books have changed a lot in one hundred years, some things are still the same. At over 80 years old, Superman is still a popular comic book character! Read Match a. Superman was popular.b. four dollars.c. were popular.d. ten cents. ____ 60. Long ago comic books ____ 61. Today and long ago ____ 62. Today, comic books cost about ____ 63. In 1938, the first comic books cost Listen. Use the word(s) from the box to fill the blanks in the chart. 64. (a) ___________________ 65. (b) ___________________ 66. (c) ___________________ 67. (d) ___________________ 68. (e) ___________________ 69. Write 3 to 4 sentences about a hobby you like to do, such as collecting bugs or fossils, painting, playing a musical instrument, video games, or sports, or taking photos. Explain what you do, where you go, and why you think it is an interesting hobby. Use words and expressions like for example and such as. Speaking Look. Listen. Write the letter. TR: 9.3 Example: E1) ____ 2) ____ 3) ____ 4) ____ 5) ____ 6) ____ Complete with the best word from the box.cooperate /direction /friction /imaginations /inventions /score /turnExample: I like to turn around and around. 72. The person who has the highest __ ___ wins. 73. When two things rub together it’s called ___ __. 74. One of the first ___ __ was the wheel. 75. Inventors often use their ___ __ to solve problems. 76. This is a video game which doesn’t make players compete.They __ ___ instead. 77. Don’t go in that __ ___ ! Turn right. Choose the best answers. ____ 78. Which words describe how you can move something? a. fossil c. screen b. lift d. turn ____ 79. Which words are things you can collect? a. alone c. fossils b. comic books d. push ____ 80. Which words describe the direction something can move in? a. backward c. controller b. balancec. d. forward Choose which or who. ____ 81. A strawberry is a fruit ______ is red. a. which b. who ____ 82. There is a boy in my class ______ likes to collect fossils. a. which b. who ____ 83. Dinosaurs are creatures ______ lived long ago. a. which b. who ____ 84. Thomas Edison is the man ______ invented the light bulb. a. which b. who Complete with the best word(s) from the box.didn’t use to / for / to / the more / use / used to / who / which / youExample: How do you use a hula hoop? 85. People _____ have cell phones. 86. _____ put it over your head when it’s raining. 87. I have a friend _____ collects stuffed animals. 88. Long ago, people _____ read by candlelight. 89. I bought a stuffed animal _____ my friend. 90. He gave a toy dinosaur _____ me. 91. _____ you practice, the better you’ll be! 92. This is a force _____ keeps you moving in a circle. Rewrite the sentence. Use the word(s) in parentheses. 93. People rode horses. (use to) 94. My father sent me a stuffed animal. (to) 95. My mother bought us a pizza. (for) Read Inventions Inventors need imagination and creativity. The Wright brothers tried to fly many times, but they failed. Finally, they succeeded in 1903. Now that we have planes, our world is very different. Louis Braille had an accident when he was three. The accident left him blind. At that time, it was hard for blind children to read. They had to touch raised letters. It was easy to confuse Q with O. When he was fifteen, Louis invented an alphabet that used raised dots. It was a big success! Write T for True or F for False. ____ 96. Creativity is important for inventors. ____ 97. The Wright brothers failed many times before they flew an airplane. ____ 98. Before Louis Braille’s invention it was difficult for blind children to read. ____ 99. Louis Braille invented an alphabet with raised letters. Electric Skateboards Electric skateboards are a great invention! The first electric skateboard, or eboard, was built by Louie Finkle in 1997. Finkle was an inventor who used to take apart machines so he could learn about them. This helped him understand how to build an eboard. It was difficult to create a battery-powered skateboard back then. The batteries and motors weren’t strong enough. This made Finkle’s skateboard expensive. It cost $995. It took 15 years to solve this problem. Around 2005, new inventions made it possible to build an eboard with a stronger battery. Now there are a lot of inventors trying to create the fastest, cheapest, or lightest electric skateboard. Today you can buy an eboard for as little as $200. An electric skateboard has a controller which you use to go slow or fast and to brake. Old-fashioned skateboards used to have four wheels. Some of the newer eboards only have one big wheel. These eboards can go up to 20 mph. So you’ll still need your helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads! Read and match.a. $200. b. 1997.c. 20 mph. d. 2005.e. $995. f. one. ____ 100. The first electric skateboard was built in ____ 101. The first eboard cost ____ 102. Stronger batteries for eboards were available in ____ 103. Now you can buy an eboard for ____ 104. An eboard is an electric skateboard which can travel ____ 105. An eboard can have four wheels or Electric Skateboards Electric skateboards are a great invention! The first electric skateboard, or eboard, was built by Louie Finkle in 1997. Finkle was an inventor who used to take apart machines so he could learn about them. This helped him understand how to build an eboard. It was difficult to create a battery-powered skateboard back then. The batteries and motors weren’t strong enough. This made Finkle’s skateboard expensive. It cost $995. It took 15 years to solve this problem. Around 2005, new inventions made it possible to build an eboard with a stronger battery. Now there are a lot of inventors trying to create the fastest, cheapest, or lightest electric skateboard. Today you can buy an eboard for as little as $200. An electric skateboard has a controller which you use to go slow or fast and to brake. Old-fashioned skateboards used to have four wheels. Some of the newer eboards only have one big wheel. These eboards can go up to 20 mph. So you’ll still need your helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads! Answer the question with a complete sentence. 106. What is one thing old-fashioned skateboards used to have? What thing didn’t they use to have? 107. What do you use the controller on an electric skateboard for? Listen and write the word(s) from the box. TR: 9.4batteries I braille I popsicle I video game I wheel windshield wipers 108.1) ____________ 2) ____________ 3) ____________ 4) ____________ 5) ____________ 6) ____________ Choose the best answers. TR: 9.4a ____ 109. Choose the words you hear that describe the first invention. a. controller c. cooperate b. together d. points ____ 110. Choose the words you hear that describe the second invention. a. backward c. push b. forward d. pull Choose one and write. a) Think about a hobby you like. Write 3 to 4 sentences explaining why the hobby is your favorite and why you thinkit is interesting. Use words and expressions like for exampleand such as to help you explain. b) Write about your favorite invention. Include your opinion of the invention. Use words like in my opinion, I think, and I believe. Speaking |