CONTENT

1. Watching videos
2. About the topic
3. Reading the story
4. Comprehension
 1. WATCHING

5 GENIUS LIFE HACKS

 2. ABOUT THE TOPIC
Writing
1. Make a list of 10 items that use batteries.
2. Which one of those items is your favorite
and why?
Science
How would your life be different if there were
no batteries?
Grammar: Have students circle the verb in each sentence
1. Batteries run machinery
2. Button batteries are small
and easy to swallow.
3. The energy lights up the bulb.
4. The electrons flow through the bulb.
RUN UP
LIGHT
SWALLOW
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to make RECHARGE
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food,
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fill
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out through a small
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6. Buy batteries you can recharge. hole
 Choose the correct words with the meaning
SWALLOW RUN LEAK FLOW RECHARGE

1. Make machines work run

___________________
2. Make food or drink go down your throat swallow
___________________
into your stomach
3. Allow liquid or gas to get in or out through a leak
___________________
small hole.
4. Charge the battery again.
recharge
___________________

5. Move continuously in one direction flow

___________________
 Think of all the tools and toys that run on batteries.
They’re all around: cell phones, computers,
flashlights, and even some stuffed animals. If your
family has a car or truck, it starts with a battery.
Americans buy more than three billion batteries
every year!

INSIDE A BATTERY
Look closely at a fresh battery as you put it in a
flashlight. It has a plus (positive) end and a minus
Let’s read! (negative) end. Very tiny particles of atoms, called
electrons, collect at the negative end. They are
attracted to the positive end, but they can’t get there.
When you turn on the flashlight, you create a path for
them. They immediately start moving as quickly as
possible towards the positive end. As they flow
through the bulb in your flashlight, their energy lights
up the bulb. This diagram shows how the electrons
move. Meanwhile, inside the battery, chemical
reactions keep producing more electrons.
 Let’s read! Batteries are every bad for the environment. Billions and
billions of them are in landfills all over the world. Over time,
dangerous chemicals in a battery can leak out. They get into our
water and soil. Button batteries are small and easy to swallow.
They can be very dangerous for young children.

People aren’t going to stop using batteries anytime soon.

Scientists are working hard to make them safer for the
environment. You can help, too. But batteries that you can
recharge, so they last longer. Even better, think about buying
tools and toys that don’t use batteries at all.

People love batteries. Batteries let us use tools and toys

anywhere. Otherwise, we’d have to be close to an electric plug or

DID YOU KNOW
have long wires or cables. Batteries help us see in the dark, start
Button batteries are in toys, watches, even greeting cards. A
our cars, and run machinery. Also, the small batteries that we buy
young child could find one in almost any room in a house and
all the time are usually safe and easy to use.
swallow it. That’s why about 40.000 children went to the hospital

in 2012!
1. What is the main idea of this book?
A. The battery
4.
B. The flashlight
C. Toys and tools
4. Why are batteries bad for the environment?
2. The author talks about a plus end, a minus A. Batteries can help us see in the dark and run
end, and the path of electrons to explain machinery.
_____________. B. Dangerous chemicals can leak out and get
D. how to protect the environment into water and soil.
E. how a battery works. C. Batteries can be recharged.
C. how to recharge batteries.
5. Which word means an area of land where
3. What is good about batteries? large amounts of waste material are buried
A. The battery chemical is dangerous. under the earth?
B. Button batteries are small and easy to A. recharge
swallow B. landfill
C. Batteries let us use tools and toys C. power
everywhere
Fill in the gaps
three billion batteries every year.
1. American people buy more than _________________
plus
2. The flashlight battery has a ________ minus
(positive) end and a _______
(negative) end.
chemical reactions keeps producing more electrons.
3. Inside the battery, __________________
tools and toys
4. Batteries let us use _____________________ anywhere.
5. If there weren’t batteries, we’d have to be near an electric plug or have
____________
wires
long _________.
leak out and get into our
6. Over time, dangerous chemicals in a battery can _________
water and soil
________________.
swallow which is dangerous for
7. Button batteries are small and easy to _________,
young children.
recharge so they last longer.
8. You should buy batteries that you can ____________,
Main idea and Details: Read the
main idea. Then write and draw
pictures of details that support the
main idea.