Electricity at home Lesson 32 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Electricity is a flow of tiny charged particles through a path called a circuit. 2 Your body can carry electricity too. 3 If it finds a path through you to the ground, it can give a shock that burns, stops the heart or throws you off a ladder. 4 Water from a tap or a bath is not pure: it has dissolved salts in it, and these let electricity flow through it. 5 Wet skin also lets far more current into the body than dry skin. 6 For example, a hair dryer that falls into a bath full of water can send current through the water and through the person in it. 9 When it is frayed, cracked or chewed, the bare wire can touch you, so the cord must not be used until an adult replaces it. 10 A boy in England flew his kite near overhead power lines; the kite string touched the wires and the electricity went down the string, and he was badly burnt. 11 A girl in Florida used a hair dryer next to a full bath; it fell in, and only the safety switch in the house tripping in time stopped her getting a deadly shock. 12 Electricity flows easily through metal, water with salts in it, and the human body. 13 Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires. 14 Wet skin lets much more electricity into the body than dry skin. 15 You should always dry your hands before touching plugs, switches or electrical appliances. 16 You must never push anything into a wall socket, especially metal objects like keys or forks. 17 A frayed or damaged cord should be unplugged by an adult and not used again until it is fixed. 18 You should pull a plug out by holding the plug itself, not by yanking the cord, because yanking can damage the wires and break their plastic cover. 20 If someone is getting an electric shock, you must not touch them; an adult should switch off the power and call for help. 21 Fallen power lines can still be live, so you must stay far away and tell an adult. 22 Kites and drones should be flown far from overhead power lines. 24 Water and electricity together can give a deadly shock. ← previous Safe in the kitchennext → Medicines and cleaning products↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/