Why Are Elevators Important?

Why Are Elevators Important?

           An elevator is wonderful. It is really only a small room. Rooms usually stay in one place. Elevators travel up and down all day long.

           Sometimes a worker stands in the elevator. He or she runs it up and down. In modern elevators there is no worker. The people walk in. They know what floor they want. They push a button and the elevator goes to that floor. It is all very fast and easy.

           Elevators are very important to us. Why? Think about a tall building. Maybe is has twenty floors. Maybe it has fifty or more. Who can walk up all those stairs? Maybe people can climb them one time. Can someone climb thirty floors to an office every day? Can small children walk up to their apartment on the twenty-fourth floor? Can their mother and father carry food up all those stairs? Of course not.

           We can have high buildings because we have elevators. We could not have all the beautiful tall buildings in the world without elevators. They are really wonderful.

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A    Vocabulary

worker        stairs             apartment          elevator
button         wonderful     modern              carry
really           climb            office                 could

1.    Who can walk up all those ________________?
2.    An_________________ is ________________.
3.    Can their mother and father ______________________ food up all those stairs?
4.    It is___________________ only a small room.
5.    Maybe people can____________________ them one time.
6.    They push a_______________________ and the elevator goes to that floor.
7.    In _______________________ elevators there is no worker.
8.    We _______________________ not have all the beautiful tall buildings in the world without elevators.

B    Vocabulary (new context)

stairs         modern        could            elevator
really        floor            worker          climb
buttons     wonderful    carry             push   

1.    Tokyo has a lot of high buildings. It is a__________________________ city.
2.    You usually breathe hard when you walk up a lot of ___________________.
3.    A group of people can ride together in an____________________________.
4.    A bus can ___________________ a lot of people at one time.
5.    Dolphins cannot _____________________talk. They use sounds, not works.
6.    Modern telephones have the numbers on___________________________.
7.    Cats like to ____________________________ trees.
8.    Children think that a zoo is a ___________________________ place to visit.
9.    _________________________ you please help me for a minute?

C    Vocabulary Review

breathe            describe         beside           sound
group               together         believe         save
scientists         show            aquarium      lonely
during              store             all over         cooler

1.    Can you ____________________ an aquarium? Tell me about one.
2.    Some _____________________ teach at universities and some work in laboratories.
3.    There are two small tables _____________________ the sofa.
4.    There are beautiful plants ______________________ the park.
5.    Don’t walk to class every day. Buy a bicycle. You can ____________________ time.
6.    I don’t__________________ you. It isn’t true.
7.    Keiko is ___________________. She wants to see her friends and family.
8.    Maria and Tony usually study ______________________.
9.    An__________________________ is an interesting place to visit.
10.    It is ____________________________ under a tree than in the sun.

D    Questions

1.    What is an elevator, really?
2.    How is an elevator different from other rooms?
3.    Does a worker run a modern elevator?
4.    How do people make an elevator go up and down?
5.    Can people walk up twenty or forty floors every day?
6.    Why can we have high buildings?

E    Comprehension

1.    An elevator is a small ____________.
       a.    room        c. stairs
       b.    building    d. button
2.    In modern elevators there is no _______.
       a.    button        c. worker
       b.    light        d. travel
3.    An elevator travels ____________.
       a.    inside and outside        c. under and above
       b.    in and out            d. up and down
4.    People __________ climb thirty floors every day.
       a.    like to        c. can
       b.    cannot        d. want to
5.    We can have________ because we have elevators.
       a.    high buildings        c. old buses
       b.    new cars         d. wide streets

F    Main Idea

1.    People cannot climb a lot of floors in a tall building.
2.    We can have high buildings because we have elevators.
3.    An elevator is a small room.

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