Why does the teacher talk about a pot of water on the stove?
Analyze and Evaluate Information in Spoken English · TELPAS Grade 3 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 3: make inferences from what was said, and work out a speaker's purpose, opinion, or what will happen next.
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.
Why does the teacher talk about a pot of water on the stove?
- To explain how to cook soup
- To show that a hot stove can be dangerous to touch
- To show that pots can hold liquids
- To give an example of water turning into a gasCorrect answer
Why “To give an example of water turning into a gas” is correct
This asks why the speaker includes an example. The pot comes right after the sentence about heated water turning into water vapor, and the water in the pot slowly goes down. The example helps students picture a change they cannot see.
Why the other answers are wrong
- To explain how to cook soup — Nobody is cooking food in the lesson.
- To show that a hot stove can be dangerous to touch — The teacher does not talk about safety.
- To show that pots can hold liquids — That pots hold liquids is true but is not the point the teacher is making.
Practice more of this
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