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Galileo Galilei

Orientatio Galileo Galilei was one of the first modern scientists. He was
born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564.
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Record of (1) At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studied mathematics

and astronomy. He was interested in the way the earth and other
Events planets move around the sun. He found out several important facts about our
world. He also started a new way of working in science. Before Galileo,
scientists did not do experiments. They just guessed about how something
happened. Galileo was different. He did not just
make guesses. He did experiments and watched to see what happened.
(2) Galileo is famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to
do experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things
always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took
a heavy ball and a light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They
fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law
off falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.

(3) The life of a scientist was not always easy in the 1500s. For example,
Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the
same as the religious ideas at the time. Many religious people did not agree with
him. During his whole life he had to worry about this. He even went to prison
for a while. But no one could stop him from thinking. He continued to
look for scientific answers to his questions about the world.
From the recount text entitled ‘Galileo Galilei’, some explanations can be made as
follows (Look at some words in bold, italics, or underlined as examples) :

 The text focuses on a specific person, namely ‘Galileo Galilei’ represented by ‘he’ in the
whole text (in bold).

 There are a number of action verbs used in the text such as ‘studied’, ‘move’, ‘found’,
‘started’, ‘do’, ‘did’, and ‘watched’ (in italics).

 There are some adverbs of time and place in the text such as ‘in Pisa, Italy’, ‘in 1564’,
‘around the sun’, ‘from a high place’, ‘at the same speed’, and ‘in 1500s’ (underlined).

 The sentences are mostly formed in past tense like ‘studied’, ‘found’, ‘started’, ‘did’,
‘watched’, and ‘happened’ (in italics).

 The text involves temporal sequence such as ‘at first’, ‘later’, ‘before’, and ‘during’
(underlined).