Solar Cars

by Abeer Alkattan

​Solar cars

​Lesson 5

​•Read a text about solar-powered cars and extract details.

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​•Learn and practice new words

​What do you know about solar cars?

Multiple Choice

Solar cars (or solar vehicles) are a special type of electric vehicle that only get their power from the --------.

• sun

• moon

• electricity

• oil

Multiple Choice

They use solar cells on the surface of the car to produce ------------ and the electricity makes a motor turn, and that turns the wheels.

• oxygen

• water

• electricity

• petrol

Multiple Choice

They can drive all day and not make any ----------.

• pollution

• accidents

• noise

• choice

Multiple Choice

How do electric cars work?

• batteries power an electric motor which turns the wheels

• electricity powers a gas engine

• nobody knows

• it has a long extension cord

Multiple Choice

Clean energy sources include:-----------

• solar power

• wind power

• geothermal power

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Battery life in an electric vehicle is------------

• 20 driving hours

• 40-200 driving hours

• 50 driving hours

• 10-25 driving hours

Multiple Choice

A hybrid electric car ------------

• uses batteries only

• uses fuel cells and batteries

• uses batteries and gasoline

• uses fuel cells only

New Vocabulary

Look at the pictures.

Choose the correct word.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• flexible

• sunroof

• hybrid

• transparent

​Hybrid

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• flexible

• sunroof

• hybrid

• transparent

​Sunroof

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• flexible

• sunroof

• hybrid

• transparent

​Transparent

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• flexible

• sunroof

• hybrid

• transparent

​Flexible

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• silicon

• transparent

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• silicon

• transparent

​Recharegeable

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• silicon

• transparent

​Solar energy

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. What is the correct word?

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• electric

• transparent

Electric

​Time to practice

Multiple Choice

A ------------- car uses both petrol or diesel and electrical energy

• flexible

• transparent

• solar energy

• hybrid

Multiple Choice

The batteries in electric or hybrid cars are -----------.

• flexible

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• hybrid

Multiple Choice

----------- cars get all their energy from batteries.

• flexible

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• electric

Multiple Choice

The latest research is trying to use --------- to power vehicles.

• flexible

• rechargeable

• solar energy

• electric

​Read and choose the correct answer.

Multiple Choice

Electric cars use ----------- stored in rechargeable batteries

• batteries

• electric energy

• oil

• hybrid

Multiple Choice

Hybrids cars use a combination of ---------- with an electric motor.

• batteries

• electric energy

• water

• petrol

Multiple Choice

Ford are designing a car with a solar panel system on the roof, which will soon be able to draw the same amount of power as a -------- -hour charge from a battery.

• four

• five

• six

• seven

Multiple Choice

Organic solar cells are more ------------.

• transparent

• flexible

• flexible and transparent

• not flexible or transpatent