National Geographic Readers - Alexander Graham Bell: Level 3

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Everything you need to know about Alexander Graham Bell!

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Level 3 Best suited to kids who are ready for complex sentences and more challenging vocabulary, but still draw on occasional support from adults. They are ideal for readers of Purple and Gold banded books.

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Alexander Graham Bell

LEVEL 3

ISBN 978-0-00-831724-9

Adapted by Collins for readers of British English.

Notes for teachers and parents available on collins.co.uk.

9 780008 317249

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r o t n e v n An I r e h c a e T and Can you imagine a world with no telephones? You wouldn’t be able to call your friends or text them with exciting news. If you needed a lift home, you couldn’t call anyone to let them know.

Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell, we now have telephones to make our lives easier.

“The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees.”

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A Boy in d n a l t o c S Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. H He was the second of three sons. H His grandfather and father we were also named Alexande Alexander Bell, so he went by tthe Ale nickname Aleck.

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Bell at age 15

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Bell’s grandfather and father were both speech teachers. They helped people learn to speak more clearly.

Bell’s mother, Eliza, was almost totally deaf.

She used an ear tube to help her hear.

Words to Know EAR TUBE: A horn-shaped tool that guides sound to the ear

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g n i r o l p x E As a boy, Bell enjoyed music.

He could listen to a song, then sit down and play it on the piano.

He could remember the notes he heard. Then he played them back.

He liked science, too.

He collected shells, birds’ eggs, butterf lies and bugs. Later he added skeletons of small animals, such as frogs and mice.

Bell continued to play music all his life.

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Royal High School

His mother taught him at home until he was 10. When he was 11, he went to the Royal High School.

He finished his studies when he was 14 That’s Bell created his first a years old. Fact! invention when he was 11 years old. It was a machine to remove the husk, or outer covering, from grains of wheat.

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e m i T s i In H When Bell was a boy in Scotland in the 1850s, many things were different from how they are now.

Toys Boys played marbles, and girls had skipping ropes. Both boys and girls played with large iron hoops they rolled along the streets.

Transport People travelled on foot or horseback, or by cart or coach.

Wealthy people could afford to travel by steamships and trains.

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