ABSTRACT

This chapter develops students’ abilities to communicate about experiments. They learn the vocabulary for talking about typical laboratory equipment. They strengthen their skills at using circumlocution to describe things for which they do not know the vocabulary word. They develop their ability to understand the instructions for conducting laboratory tests. They work on narrating, in the past tense, tests and experiments that have been conducted. They learn to interpret graphs and to arrive at conclusions based on the graphic data. They develop their own testing protocol and write a report explaining it. They learn to read and critique a technical report.