Today's Lesson

In today's lesson we are going to:

• complete a reading comprehension based on an explanation text,

with focus on the use of diagrams
• practice using root words to form longer words
 Explanation Texts

What is an explanation text?

An explanation text explains a process

or tells us how or why something
works.

Example: how the water cycle works.

 Explanation Texts

Possible explanation texts:

How a plant grows.

How to make a cup of tea.
How to build a water rocket.
How to play chess.
How to boil an egg.
 Language Book: page 142 - How your ear works

We hear sounds. They travel through the air. Put your hand in front of your mouth and speak or sing.
You can feel the air moving. When something makes a sound, the noise makes the air vibrate. These
vibrations are called sound waves. If you pluck a string on a guitar you can see it vibrate as it makes a
sound.

Look at the shape of your friend’s ear. Its shape helps it to catch sound waves and send them down the
ear canal.

Did you know that you have a drum in your ear? Your ear drum is a bit of thin skin which moves quickly
when sound waves hit it.

Your ear drum is joined to three tiny bones. When your ear drum moves, it makes the three tiny bones
move too. These bones are the smallest in your body. One of them is about two millimetres from one
end to the other. It is small enough to sit on top of a pin!
 Language Book: page 142 - How your ear works
tubes nerves

Inside your ear you also have three tubes. They contain watery liquid.
When the three tiny bones move, they make the watery liquid move
too.

A nerve then carries this ‘sound wave message’ to your brain. Your
brain tells you what the sound is.

The watery liquid inside these tubes in your ear also helps you to balance. When you spin
round quickly this makes the liquid in these tubes move about too quickly. When you stop
spinning you feel dizzy. You have to stand still for a few moments. The world still seems to
be spinning around. This is because the liquid in the tubes continues to spin around for a
short time.
 Language Book: page 143 - How your ear works

Explanation texts
also contain
picture diagrams
and flow diagrams.
 Practice Book: page 136 - Comprehension
Read pages 142 + 143 (LB) again.
Choose the correct answer from the words in the brackets for each gap.

1. We hear (see, smell, hear) sounds.

2. A sound makes the air vibrate. (wave, vibrate spin)
3. Sound waves travel down your earhole. (earhole, throat, back)
4. Your ear drum moves very quickly (slowly, quickly, noisily) when sound waves hit it.
5. Your ear drum is joined to three bones. (teeth, nerves, bones)
6. The bones in your ear are very tiny. (hard, large, tiny)
7. Inside your ear you have three tubes. (cubes, tubes, tubs)
8. The tubes in your ear contain watery liquid. (food, drink, liquid)
9. Your brain (brain, head, eye) tells you what a sound is.
10. The watery liquid inside the tubes in your ear helps you to balance. (dance, sleep, balance)
 Language Book: page 144 - Comprehension

1. When something makes a sound, c a is a bit of thin skin.

2. The proper name for your earhole
3. Your ear drum
4. Your ear drum moves very quickly
5. Your ear drum is joined
6. The bones in your ear drum
7. The three tubes in your ear
8. The liquid inside the tubes
9. Your brain tells you
h b helps you to balance.
a c the noise makes the air vibrate.
g d are the smallest in your body.
f e contain watery liquid.
d f to three tiny bones.
e g when sound waves hit it.
b h is your ear canal.
i i what a sound is.

Match the beginning and ending of each sentence.

 Language Book: page 144 - Comprehension
1. Look at your friend’s ear. Why does the shape of it help it catch sound waves?
It is like a large cup around the ear hole so sound is caught by this big cup and goes into the
smaller hole.

2. Why do you think the thin skin in your ear is called a drum?
Because it is stretched tightly, like the surface of a drum.

3. What is interesting about the bones in your ear?

They are the smallest bones in your body.

4. Explain why you feel dizzy when you spin around.

The liquid in the tubes in the ear keeps moving after you stop spinning and upsets your balance.

5. Why do you think the information on page 142 is divided into paragraphs?
To make the information easier to understand. Each paragraph gives information about a
different part of the ear.
 Root Words

root word
We can add a prefix or a suffix to
a root word to make a new word.

prefix mishear suffix hearing

 Root Words
What’s the root word?
 Root Words

Adding a prefix or a suffix can

also change the part of speech.

appear (vb.) disappear (vb.)

appearance (n.) disappearance (n.)

Practice Book: page 137 - Vocabulary

Match the words with their root word.

Today we have:

ücompleted a reading comprehension based on an explanation

text, with focus on the use of diagrams in a text

üpracticed using root words to form longer words

Please remember to check the EMG LMS to review today’s lesson
and to complete the quizzes for this week!