Tu Youyou ,
a 84-year-old lady,
has become the first
Chinese woman to win a
Nobel Prize, for her work
in helping to create an
anti-malaria medicine.
• 1. which is the longest river in China?
• 2. Can oil mix with water?
• 3. Which is the first cloned animal?
• 4. Who discovered gravity?
• 5. Can plants grow in the South Pole?
• 6. Can people be drowned in the dead sea?
• 7. Who first landed on the moon?
• 8. Which is the highest mountain?
• 9. Which is the largest country in area in
the world?
Competition
Word guessing
liquid
mixture
oxygen
electricity
expand
contract
1. something that flows freely and is not a solid or
gas, for example water or oil
2. a combination of different things
3. a colourless gas that is necessary for people,
animals and plants to live
4. a form of energy that we use every day, without
which we would be in dark at night
5. to become greater in size or number
6. to become less or smaller
Put the words in pairs or groups.
Page 41 Activity 2
Page 41 Activity 3 Put the following words in the right place
electricity iron metal steel air glass
natural
man-made
both
electricity iron some metals air
steel some metals glass
electricity and some metals
K potassium Na sodium
Mg magnesium Zn
zinc
Cu Copper
Ca Calcium
Al Aluminium
Listen to the tape and choose the best
title for the passage.
The Different Uses of Metals
The Reaction of Metals
The Reaction of Metals with Oxygen
Passage A
Step I Pre-reading
Put these words in the correct order to
describe the stages of a scientific
experiment.
conclusion aim result method
When we do an experiment, we should
first of all have an ____.We should use
proper _______.We should find out the
_____and get a_________.
aim
methods
result conclusion
Step II Careful reading
Read passage A carefully and answer:
1. Which of the metals in the table reacts the most with
oxygen and water?
2. What happens when you heat calcium in oxygen?
3. Which metals react with steam?
4. Does iron have a slow or fast reaction with steam?
5. Does copper react with water?
Potassium, calcium and sodium.
It burns to form an oxide.
Magnesium, aluminium and zinc.
It has a slow reaction.
No, it doesn’t.