UNIT 10

ELECTRICITY

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A What Is Electricity?

At the end of this section, you should be able to answer the

following questions:

What are some things

that use electricity
from batteries?

How are batteries

different?

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A What Is Electricity?

What do you see in the picture?

Why do we use My bubble blower

batteries in the needs batteries too.
remote control?

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 A What Is Electricity?

What are some things that use electricity to work?

• These things use electricity from the mains.

We need to plug them into the socket.

lamp

electric kettle

television microwave oven

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A What Is Electricity?

Where do these things get electricity from?

clock

remote
control

laptop toy robot

mobile phone

• These things use electricity from batteries.

They can be carried around.
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 A What Is Electricity?

• Batteries come in different sizes and shapes.

These batteries are used in things

such as toys and torches.

A car battery is big.

A watch battery can be very small.

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 A What Is Electricity?

Explore

Why are batteries useful?

Discuss with your classmates.

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B What Makes Up a Circuit?

At the end of this section, you should be able to answer

the following questions:
What are the parts
of a simple circuit?

How should we
connect the parts such
that electricity flows?

What happens when

any part of the circuit
is missing?
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B What Makes Up a Circuit?

Things that run on electricity have circuits.

What are the parts of a circuit?
battery

wire
bulb

• A simple circuit has a battery, a bulb and wires.

• The wires connect the bulb to the battery.

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B What Makes Up a Circuit?

Why does the bulb light up?

• The circuit forms a complete loop.

• Electricity flows through the circuit, so the bulb lights up.

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 B What Makes Up a Circuit?

• We can add a switch to a circuit.

• We need to close the switch for electricity to flow through a circuit.

closed switch

open switch

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B What Makes Up a Circuit?

What can we do to make the bulb light up?

• For a circuit to work,

all the parts must be
connected correctly.

• If any part is missing,

the circuit has a gap.
No electricity will flow.

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What We Have Learnt

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Science Words

Battery Complete loop Switch

Bulb Electricity Wire

Circuit

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 Acknowledgements
• Slide 2, table lamp © Valentin Valkov | 123rf.com
• Slide 2, toy robot © Elvira Koneva | 123rf.com
• Slide 2, different batteries © scanrail | 123rf.com
• Slide 4, park with benches © Jaap Bleijenberg | 123rf.com
• Slide 4, helicopter and remote © Oleksandr Lutsenko | 123rf.com
• Slide 4, batteries © kenishirotie | 123rf.com
• Slide 4, bubble machine © chris brignell | 123rf.com
• Slide 5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: LG전자,_잔상_없앤_240Hz_LCD_TV_국내_출시.jpg /
CC-BY-2.0
• Slide 5, electric kettle © Алексей Кириллов | 123rf.com
• Slide 5, cable and plug © Shawn Hempel | 123rf.com
• Slide 5, table lamp © Valentin Valkov | 123rf.com
• Slide 5, microwave © Sergiy Kuzmin | 123rf.com
• Slide 6, laptop © Glenn Jenkinson | 123rf.com
• Slide 6, clock © monticello | 123rf.com
• Slide 6, mobile phone © onston | 123rf.com
• Slide 6, radio remote © Olga Popova | 123rf.com
• Slide 6, toy robot © Elvira Koneva | 123rf.com
• Slide 7, different batteries © scanrail | 123rf.com
• Slide 7, round battery © Aleksander Kaczmarek | 123rf.com
• Slide 7, car battery © Joseph Belanger | 123rf.com
• Slide 14, kettle with cable – ID 85348971 © Brizmaker | Dreamstime.com
• Slide 14, different batteries © scanrail | 123rf.com
• Slide 14, red clock © monticello | 123rf.com
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