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W29L1 Recap
W29L1 Recap
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.
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.
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.