What happens when ice gets warm?
Basic Understanding of Spoken English · TELPAS Grade 3 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 2: understand the main points and important details of spoken stories and informational passages, about everyday life and school subjects.
Listen to the teacher talk about science. Then answer the questions.
Three Forms of Water
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Mr. Nguyen: Today we are learning about water. Water can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
Mr. Nguyen: Ice is water in its solid form. It is hard, and it keeps its shape.
Mr. Nguyen: When ice gets warm, it melts. It turns into liquid water, the kind you can pour into a glass.
Mr. Nguyen: When water is heated, some of it turns into a gas called water vapor. Think about a pot of water on the stove. If it stays on the heat long enough, there is less water in the pot.
Mr. Nguyen: You cannot see water vapor, but it is in the air all around us.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What happens when ice gets warm?
- It melts into liquid water.Correct answer
- It gets harder.
- It turns into a gas right away.
- It keeps its shape.
Why “It melts into liquid water.” is correct
This is a detail question about change. The teacher says that when ice gets warm, “it melts” and becomes liquid water. Turning into a gas comes later in the lesson and needs water to be heated.
Why the other answers are wrong
- It gets harder. — Ice is already hard; warmth makes it melt, not harden.
- It turns into a gas right away. — The lesson says ice melts into liquid first; the gas part is about heated water.
- It keeps its shape. — Keeping its shape describes solid ice, before it gets warm.
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