11 L2-Electricity

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Oxford Read and Discover level 2 Electricity by Louise Spilsbury

Introduction We use electricity every day. We use electricity in lamps, computers, and refrigerators. We use electricity to cook, to watch television, and to listen to music. What do you use electricity for? How do we make electricity? Discover! Now read and discover more about electricity!

Chapter 1 Electricity Electricity is a type of energy. Energy makes things work. We use electricity to make machines work. We use electric machines in our homes, schools, and offices. We can use electricity in trains, cars, and some buses, too! Electric machines help us to do many things in the kitchen. We use a kettle to make water hot. We use a refrigerator to keep our food cold, and we use a stove to cook our food. We use a washing machine to wash our clothes, and we use a dishwasher to wash our dishes. How many electric machines can you see here?

Chapter 2 Electricity in Nature There's electricity in nature. In the Arctic and the Antarctic, electricity from the sun makes red and green colors in the sky. The colors are amazing! Lightning is a type of electricity in the sky, too. Lightning has lots of energy. It's very, very hot. When you see lightning in the sky, go into your home. Lightning can give you an electric shock. That's when electricity goes into your body. Then it can kill you! Discover! The electric ray has electricity in its body. It uses electricity to catch and eat other fish!

Chapter 3 How We Make Electricity We make electricity in power stations. We use this electricity to make machines work. Many power stations use coal to make electricity. We burn the coal to make water hot. Hot water makes steam. The steam turns a turbine. The turbine turns a generator. Then the generator makes electricity. Some power stations don't use coal. This power station uses water from a river. The water in the river turns turbines. We can use wind to make electricity, too. This is a wind farm. The wind turns turbines to make electricity.