Year 6

Reading 2

Part I

a) Can you read these temperatures?

 b) Write the temperature of the planets in our solar system.

Example:

1- The temperature in Venus is approximately four hundred seventy degrees

celsius (470°C).

c) Read the extract from MEASUREMENT quickly and take notes on

the answers in your copybook.

1- What’s the melting point of ice or freezing point of water?

2- What’s the boiling point of water?

3- How is a scale divided?

4- Can a scale be extended beyond 0°C and 100°C?

5- What’s the usual reading scale of laboratory thermometers?

6- What does a thermometer compare?

7- What’s the lowest possible temperature?

d) Read the scale on the left and check if these sentences are correct.

1- Ice becomes water at 100°C. ❌ Ice becomes water at 0°C.

2- The maximum temperature of the Earth surface is 60°C.

3- The normal temperature of our body is 38°C.

4- The surface of Mercury is hotter than the surface of Venus.

5- The temperature at the core of the Sun is higher than the outer surface.

6- Helium becomes liquid because it melts.

Part II

Think about language

The words in bold in exercise d) are verbs. The sentences are in the simple present

tense.

Think and answer

● How can they be turned into questions?

● Which questions do not need an auxiliary verb to form a question?

Example:

1- Ice becomes water at 100°C. ➡ Does ice become water at 100°C?

Celsius versus Fahrenheit

e) Before you read, look these words up in a dictionary.

● matter (noun) ● label (verb)

● gain (verb) ● offer (verb)

● sense (verb) ● get (verb)

● develop (verb) ● mark (verb)

f) Read the text below and answer these questions.

1- When does the temperature of a substance go up?

2- Why were measuring devices developed?

3-Who developed the first measuring scale for temperature? When was that?

4- Is his scale used all over the world?

 g) Read the last four paragraphs and take notes on the things the two

men did in order to develop a measuring scale for temperature.

Fahrenheit Celsius

Celsius versus Fahrenheit . . . Who will win?*

Energy flows from warmer matter to cooler matter, and the energy, or motion, of the
particles of the matter is what is measured to determine the temperature of the
substance.

As matter gains energy and the particles speed up, the temperature increases.

Not everyone senses heat in the same way.

Suppose you and a friend go swimming in a pool. You think the water is just right, but
your friend thinks the water is too cold. If another friend came to the pool to swim
and asked you and your friend, "How is the water?", who would be correct? For this
reason, scientists have developed devices to measure temperature accurately.

In the early 1700s, Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German scientist, developed the first
standard scale for measuring temperature.

He put some mercury in a sealed tube and placed this device — a thermometer — in
a mixture of ice, salt, and ammonia. The mixture offered the coldest temperature he
could get. Fahrenheit marked the level of the mercury in the tube at this temperature
and called this point 0 degrees, or 0°C. Then Fahrenheit measured the level of the
mercury at the temperature of the human body and labeled this point 96. He also
measured the temperature at which plain water froze, calling it 32.

Fahrenheit's scale became the first standard measure of temperature. It is still the
most commonly used temperature scale in the United States, but it is not the only
scale used.
In 1742, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, developed another scale for
measuring temperature. He experimented with measuring the melting point of snow
and the boiling point of water. Celsius called these points 0 and 100. He divided the
distance between these points into 100 equal degrees. This system became known
as the Celsius scale. Today scientists use the Celsius scale, which is part of the metric
system.

* Text taken from https://www.elephango.com

Part III

h) Choose one of the two scientists and talk about them. Use these

questions as a guide:

● Who was he? (full name)

● Where was he from?

● Where did he study?

● What is/are his most important contribution/s to science?

● Any other information you want to share?