G5 ESL Revision Unit 4 -Inventions
1. VOCABULARY: unscramble and spell these words correctly:
oopnnii eeetttannnrim nproesenitat
mmuccoonnaii tinvonein tedgga
2. Write the correct word from above for the following definitions:
A small tool or device that does something
useful.
To explain or show something such as slides or
an idea.
Your thoughts and feelings about something or
someone.
A thing or idea that has been created.
3. What is the purpose of the following inventions?
microwave train chair PS5 Mobile phone
food
4.Which of these sentences is an Opinion, a Reason and an Example:
a)I reckon the light bulb is the most revolutionary
invention throughout history!.
b)I hold the opinion that the wheel is the supreme and
most fine invention.
c) Smartphones and computers both have screens with
qwerty keyboard function.
d) People use light bulbs in their homes for light and we
are able to see in the dark in public places due to the
street lighting.
e) In my view, a smartphone is the most useful and
excellent innovation.
5a. Regular and Irregular verbs:
Match up the correct definitions:
Verb that adds d or ed when used in the past Regular verbs
Verb that changes its spelling Irregular verbs
b.Give two examples of irregular verbs:
______________________
______________________
6.Complete the sentences with will or won’t + a verb from the box below:
perform snow hover teach
I reckon in thirty years people ____ ________ in electric cars in the air above.
She ___ ________ a dance next week at the local theatre..
I believe that in the future humanoids _____ ____ students at school.
In Vietnam during June, __l___ ________ because it will be summer.
7. Can you convert these adjectives into adverbs?
Quiet _____________ Rapid _____________
Excited _____________ Happy _____________
Horrible _____________ Terrible _____________
elegant _____________
8. 1. Complete the following sentences using prepositional verbs. Can you edit the
punctuation?
a) she _______________ ____________the children while their parents were out
b) He ___________ ___________ an Old friend at the Supermarket.
c) They _________ _________ their grandparents for good advice
d) The Thief ______________ _____________ with the money
e) He was ___________________ _____________ the bus after school,
9.Choose from the adverbs above to complete the sentences:
The model walked __________________ on the stage..
It can be hard to keep up with technology in a ______________ changing world!
I ___________________ returned to class, to avoid disturbing others.
The child missed his grandma ____________.
He __________ skipped through the park.
10. Reading comprehension:
Electric light
The British chemist, Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) developed a safety lamp
for miners around 1815. Davy discovered that wire mesh can disseminate heat
rapidly enough to prevent a candle’s heat from igniting methane gas. The flame
would turn bluer and brighter around methane, and would dim or extinguish
around too little oxygen. This lamp was first used in mines in 1816. For this
invention the Royal Society awarded him the Rumford Medal that same year.
The Davy lamp gave miners a way to detect dangerously low levels of
oxygen, and reduced the possibility of explosions, saving an incalculable
number of lives. But these advantages allowed mine operators to send their
workers into places where they could never have gone before due to high
concentrations of methane. Tragically, this caused many to die of suffocation.
Many decades later, Thomas Edison developed the model using metal filaments
in 1879, a more efficient and practical model of the electric light bulb. His
innovation opened up endless opportunities for society to progress without
relying on daylight. Electric lights went on to be used in the home, street lamps,
car headlights and torches.
There are many different scientists who contributed to developing electric light
before Thomas Edison’s model became more popular.
Humphry Davy invented an electric lamp to save miners’ TRUE FALSE
lives.
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb model using metal TRUE FALSE
filaments.
Today electric light bulbs are only used indoors in our homes. TRUE FALSE
The safety electric lamp used for the first time in 1816 by TRUE FALSE
miners is called the Edison lamp.
