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Wheels Rob Sved Read and Discover All About Wheels Wheels Rob Sved Read and discover all about wheels ... • What can wheels do? • How many wheels does a unicycle have? Read and discover more about the world! This serie'> 01 non-fiction readers provides interesting and educatloll.d content, with activities and project work. Series Editor: Hazel Geatches ~ Audio CD Pack available Word count for this reader: 675 Level 1 f.1't\ Level 3 6"!\ Level 5 300 hea dwords '& 600 headwords I:::iY 900 headw tJt'\ Level 2 t!Jl\ Level 4 & Level 6 ~ 450 headwords '<::iJJ 750 headwords '<!:i:J 1,050 head - ) .,.,~: t J ~~ Cover photograph: Photolibrary (Dumper truck wheels/ Fotosearch) ......", r e~__ ~ ...... ____ _ ISBN 978-0-19 111> 1" • • • 9 780 1 9 4 (i 1 I , , Wheels Rob Sved Contents' Introduction 3 1 What Are Wheels? 4 2 Carts and Chairs 6 3 Bicycles 8 4 Cars, Planes, Trains 10 5 Wheels for Fun 12 6 Wheels to Cut 14 7 Wheels at Home 16 8 Water and Wind 18 Activities 20 Project 28 Pictu re Dictiona ry 30 About Read and Discover 32 OXFORD UN IVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great C1arendon Street, Oxford, OX2 60F t United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department afthe University Introduction of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research. scholarship. and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK .1I1c! in certain other couno"ies We use \vheels every day. All wheels ® Oxrord Un iversity Press 201 2 The moral righ ts of the author have been asserted First publi shed in 20 "12 are round, but some wheels are big 20 1620 1520 14 20 -13 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I No unauthol"ized photocopying and some wheels are little. Wheels All rig hls rcsclvcd. No part of this publicati on may be reproduced. slored in a retrieval system. or transmined, can do many things. in any form or by any means. without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press. or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the ELT Rights Department, Oxford University Press. at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you mllst impose this same condition o n any acquirer Links to third pa rty websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford d isclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website re ferenced in this work I SBN: 9780 19464631 4 An Audio CD Pack containing this book and a CD is also avai lablc. I SHN 9780194646413 Thc CD has a choice of American and British English I recordings of the complete text. IQ An accompanying Activity Book is also available, I I ISBN 9780194646529 I I Printed in China This book is printed o n paper from certiJiecl and I I well·managecl sources. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Illustrations by: Kelly Kennedy pp.9, 13, 19; Alan Rowe pp.20, 21,22,23,24,26,27,30,31. The Publishers would also like to thank the follm,ongfor their kind pennis~io" to reproduce photographs and other copylight matelia/: Aiamy 1'1'.3 (bike wheels/Carlos Voss), 5 (bus/MO Peerbaeus, roll erskaters/MARKA). 15 (combine halvestcr/John McKenna); Co rbis 1'1'.6 (stroll er/Corey Rich/Aurora Pholos); CellY Im ages Where are these wheels? p.3 (train wheels/Panoramic Im ~l ges. ca r whcels/Mauhew Ward/Dorling Kinderslcy), 4 (Bob I" ngrish/Dorling Kindersley), 7 (wheelchair ra ce/Jan Kru ger/Cell Y Im ages 51'01'1) , 8 (cycle Where can you see other wheels? race/Sajjad Hll ssain/S t ringer) , 10 (Ma t I hew Wa rdfDor li ng Kinderslcy). 11 (planc/train/panor,lmic Im ages), 13 (child 011 loy/Rune ./o hansen/l' holo library), 14 (C hris Chead le/S tone), 15 (pizza cu i (('r/Lew Rob(, l"t so n/pholographer's Choice). 17 (rO il ing pin/O leksly Maksymenko/AII Canada Photos, paint rolkrlSll'vl'1l l)lIt'l zt'l"/Riser), 19 (O li ver Cleve/photographer's Now read and discover Choice); Oxlonl llll ivc rsilY Press 1'1'.3 (yo-yos), 6 (s hopping lroll "y), ~(W() Ill ; "ltycl i s l), 9, 12, 13 (meny-go-round), 16 (alarm clot·k and x·ray 0 1 clock), 18: Rex Features p.7 (man in more about wheels! Whl'l'lch;lirIS ip:l Press). • 'What Are L---.....I-.I Wheels? Wheels are machines. Wheels are round and the-y turn. People use wheels to do man-y things. People use wheels to move. This People use wheels to carr-y things. school bus has four big wheels. It This wheelbarrow has one wheel carries lots of people. at the front. The girl walks and Wheels are fun, too. Look at these the wheel turns. roller skates. A roller skate has four little wheels. With roller skates, people can move fast . .. Go to page 20 for activities. Some people Carts and Chairs can't walk. The!;) use In a store, people use a shopping wheelchairs cart to carry man!;) things. The cart to move. The!;) has little wheels. People can push push the big and pull the cart. wheels with their hands. A stroller has wheels, too. People push the strollers and babies can sleep in them. People use wheelchairs in sports. These people are in a long race. They can go 42 kilometers in two hours! .. Go to page 21 for activities. • Do 1Jou have a bic1Jcle? Bic1Jcles have two wheels. You use 1Jour legs to turn the wheels. You wear a helmet to protect 1Jour head. Look at this bic1Jcle wheel. It's Some bic1Jcles can go ver1J fast. a metal wheel with a rubber tire. These people are in a race. The tire helps the wheel to turn on bump1J roads. You use a pump to put air into the tire. A unicycle has one wheel. It's fun to ride! + Go to page 22 for activities. • A PLane · Cars, Planes, Train Cars, planes, and trains all have wheels. The-y have an engine, too. The engine makes the wheels turn fast. How man-y wheels does a car A plane uses wheels to move ver-y have? It has four wheels. It has a fast, and then it flies into the sk-y. steering wheel, too. You turn the How man-y wheels can -you see? steering wheel and the car moves Trains have metal wheels. The left or right. wheels turn on a metal track. ACar 4 : -~ .. :' f ~. ;~-: ~: . :. .. : ~ :~ /! ',"'- , -_ ,";-. + Go to page 23 for activities. ~ .. _ r .." _ " ~ J,.. ' p . ... • _ _ '" ','_ Wheels for fun People use wheels for fun, too! You can see man1:) wheels at the fairground. This big wheel turns, and people go round and round. .. BI9 WheeL This wheel is a merr1:)-go-round. Children stand on the wheel. Other people push it round and round. Man1:) t01:)s have wheels. This t01:) has little wheels. Children sit on it and the1:) use their legs to move. A yo-yo is a wheel. It turns fast a nd goes up a nd down. + Go to page 24 for activities. CD Wheels to Cut People use wheels to cut things. A round, metal saw is very sharp. The saw uses electricity to turn very fast. It can cut many things. This Wheels can cut food, too. You can round saw can cut wood. push this cutter on a pizza. The metal wheel turns and it cuts the pizza. This combine harvester has wheels to move and wheels to cut. The metal wheels are very sharp and they turn fast. The combine harvester moves and the metal wheels cut the wheat. i4II'I'1 , Wheels at Home People use wheels to do man-y things at home. Look in -your home. How man-y wheels can -you find? This clock has man-y wheels inside. The wheels turn together, and the-y make the hands move. This rolling pin is a long wheel. People use a rolling pin to make bread and cookies. Do -you know people can paint with wheels? People use a roller to paint walls. \ Go to page 26 for activities. Water and Wind People use rivers and the wind to turn wheels. This is an old water mill. The water in the river turns a big wheel. The big wheel turns other wheels in the water mill. The wheels make flour from wheat. A wind turbine has wheels inside. The wind turns the wheels. This makes electricit!:). We use wheels ever!:) day, and they help us do man!:) different thing s. Which is !:)our favorite wheel? .. Go to page 27 for activities. CD What Are Wheels? Carts and Chairs .. Read pages 4-5. .. Read pages 6-7. 1 Write the words. Find and write the words. , • • ~.'-!to '-'" I ~~ III" P.; . AJ.r (i};;IiL otepushWh roLLer skates vv nee- DU I I...,VV people bus ~troLlerspo{tss\; eelchair tn~ 1 wheelbarrow 2 _ _ ___ 1 2 - - -- 3 _ ___ 3 ----- 4 _ ___ _ 4 ____ 5 - - -- 6 pull little i--atTn& 2 CompLete the sentences. big front 2 Write true or false. 1 Wheels are round and they turn. 1 Babies can sleep in stroLLers. true 2 A wheelbarrow has a wheel at the 2 A shopping cart has big wheels.
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