Green Cars

Green Cars

by Ms. April Anne Moncada

Read the following dictionary entries. Do you know what the words are?

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​Use a dictionary to discover the words.

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How do cars and other vehicles pollute the environment?

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What is an environmentally friendly car?

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What do you think environmentally friendly means?

​Reading: exploring the text

Read the Language tip box. What do you think an infographic is?

​Language tip

​The text in the given link/URL is an infographic. Infographic is a word made from two other words: information and graphic. A graphic is drawing or a picture (often produced by a computer).

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Explain what the infographic is about in one sentence.

​Reading: Understanding the text

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Imagine that you have an electric car. 

What must you do to get power into the car's battery?

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Imagine that you have an electric car.

What happens after driving for a few hundred kilometres?

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Imagine that you have an electric car.

What could solve the problem with electric cars?

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In what way is a hybrid car environmentally friendly? In what ways is it not?

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In what ways are hydrogen cars and electric cars similar? In what ways are they different?

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A plane has been able to use solar power to flay all around the world. Why do you think solar cars are not able to produce enough power to work for very long?

​Vocabulary: words in context

​Match the words from the text with their dictionary meanings.

Multiple Choice

burn

• two or more things mixed together

• to create fire to make power in an engine

• to not stop

• to create

Multiple Choice

plug in

• to connect something to the electricity supply

• to make

• to make less

• to not stop

Multiple Choice

a mix

• two or more things mixed together

• to create fire to make power in an engine

• to not stop

• to create

Multiple Choice

continue

• to connect something to the electricity supply

• to create fire to make power in an engine

• to not stop

• to create

Multiple Choice

produce

• to connect something to the electricity supply

• to create fire to make power in an engine

• to not stop

• to create

Multiple Choice

reduce

• to connect something to the electricity supply

• to make less

• to create fire to make power in an engine

• to create

Copy and complete the sentences with words from the text.​