LISTEN
Read the statements. Listen to each question. Then choose the correct answer.
1. a. He was playing cards.
b. He’s playing cards.
c. He plays cards.
5. a. He’s taking books.
b. He takes her flowers.
c. He was taking her flowers.
2. a. I was going at seven o’clock.
b. I went at seven o’clock.
c. I was going to the theater.
6. a. She was studying at the library.
b. She was studying history.
c. She’s studying at home.
3. a. She is listening to it now.
b. She was listening to it last night.
c. She was listening to it on TV.
7. a. I was working at the office.
b. I was working there last week.
c. I’m not working today.
4. a. She was driving very fast.
b. She’s driving very fast.
c. She drove it yesterday.
8. a. They are going by train.
b. They were going by train.
c. They were going yesterday
morning.
LISTEN AND READ
The Discovery of Penicillin
A. Find the definitions online: bacteria, disease,
medicine, mold, and penicillin.
B. Read the statements below. Then listen and choose
the correct answers.
1. Dr. Fleming was _______________.
3. Circle the correct answer.
a) learning the Scottish language
a) Doctors use penicillin to
b) studying bacteria
treat one or two diseases.
c) visiting London
b) Penicillin is helping millions
d) making bottles
of people in London.
c) A little girl made penicillin.
2. Circle ALL the correct answers about the
d) Penicillin makes people well.
little girl.
a) She was sick.
b) She was Dr. Fleming’s daughter.
c) Dr. Fleming’s medicine made her well.
d) She had mold in her body.
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VOCABULARY
accident, bacteria, bottle, die, discovery,
disease, grow, kill, little, million, mold, name
(v), notice (v), patient (n), penicillin
C. Now listen again and read.
In 1928 Dr. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish doctor and scientist, was
studying bacteria in London. One day he was looking at the bacteria in
some bottles. By accident he noticed something very interesting: A mold was
growing in the bottles, and the bacteria was dying.
One of Dr. Fleming’s patients was a little girl. She had the same bacteria
in her body, and she was very sick. He thought about the mold and the
bacteria in his lab. Was the mold killing the bacteria? He decided to test his
idea. Dr. Fleming prepared some medicine with the mold and gave it to the
little girl. It made her well. He named the new medicine penicillin.
Doctors now use penicillin to treat many different diseases. Dr. Fleming's
discovery is helping millions of sick people in the world.
D. Match the two parts of the sentences below.
1. Dr. Alexander Fleming was studying
bacteria
2. A mold was killing
3. A sick girl had
4. Dr. Fleming made
5. The medicine made
6. Dr. Fleming’s discovery is helping
7. Dr. Fleming named
8. Penicillin is
a. the bacteria in the bottles in his
office.
b. in London in 1928.
c. some medicine with the mold.
d. the same bacteria in her body.
e. millions of people.
f. the girl well.
g. a medicine made from a mold.
h. his discovery penicillin.
E. Practice a conversation using the question below and your own information.
When were you last sick? How did you feel? How did you get well?
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