Introduction Note to students Welcome to this workbook, which will help you with your study of physics using English. To progress well in your studies in physics, it will help if you can also use the English language well in a way that is appropriate to science. If you can read English well, you can understand what is written in your physics textbook easily. If you can write and speak English well, you can share your knowledge about physics with others easily. This workbook will help you understand some important topics in physics. It will also help you develop your skills in English. The exercises will give you practice in both things at the same time. The exercises will help your English skills in different ways. They will: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
help you understand the meaning of important words help you to use certain types of words correctly, like nouns and adjectives help you to construct sentences correctly help you to construct whole passages of text give you practice in reading text and extracting information from it.
Each unit in this book covers a different area of physics, but almost exclusively covers the Core IGCSE topics. You do not need to complete all the units in the order in which they appear in the book. Instead, as you are being taught a certain area of physics in the classroom, you should complete the exercises in the unit that covers that area. Your teacher may ask you to work on the exercises at home or in class. Throughout the text you will see language boxes like this one. These boxes give you some background information about the English language skills that you are learning about. If you see the icon , this means you can read more about that area of English language in the Language File at the back of this book.
A rule is the same as a ruler. It is a special term used for a ruler that is one metre long.
You will also find an Answer Key for the exercises at the back of this book. You can use this to check whether your answers are correct. Sometimes there are many different possible answers to a question. The Answer Key will make it clear that the suggested answer is just an example, and your own answer might look different. In these cases, look carefully at the structure of your answer, to see if it is the same as the answer in the Answer Key. There are notes in the Answer Key that will help you to see if your answer is a correct one. If you are still not sure, then ask your teacher to help you. We hope you enjoy using this book, and that you progress well in your studies of Physics and English. The Breakthrough to CLIL team
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