EFL STUDENTS: MEET BEN FRANKLIN
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Old Ben Franklin, writing 270 years ago, said:
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
What does that mean?
Dr. John Rumberger writes, “Well he [Ben Franklin] was right. Not only because the apple contains vitamins and minerals, but also because it is a major source of fiber. Maybe three apples a day keeps three doctors away!”--Dr. John Rumberger
http://www.trans4mind.com/explore/health/16863.html
Sadly, too many English students around the world know of Ben Franklin only as an American politician and the person on the USA $100 bill. He was much more than that.
Benjamin Franklin was a curious person whose many inventions came out of a need or a perceived need. He loved to ask questions and find the answers to those questions in experiments. Possibly his most famous invention is electricity. He published his first writings on the subject in 1747; four years later, he published the book Observations on Electricity. He performed his famous kite experiment the very next year.
He thought that metal would act as a conductor for lightning in a storm. Not really having a laboratory that could contain lightning, he had to improvise. So he did the now famous act of tying a metal key to a kite and flying both high in the air during a lightning storm. Why did he choose the kite? Well, he didn’t want to wait for lightning to strike the ground because that type of experiment could take years to complete, since lightning strikes on the ground are few and far between. So he came up with the kite as a way of getting the metal key up into the air, where lightning was more likely to strike it. He was lucky, of course, that he wasn’t killed by the jolt. Scientists today still use many ideas that Benjamin Franklin advanced beginning with that famous kite flight in June 1752.
Many of his other inventions came from a personal need or observation:
• He had bad eyesight and had to switch between eyeglasses of two different magnifications in order to read things up close or see things a little farther away. He got tired of all the eyeglasses switching, so he invented bifocals.
Benjamin Franklin said many wise and humorous things, including:
--“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
--“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Do a search on line and see what you can find out about this amazing man!
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/benjaminfranklin1.htm
Old Ben Franklin, writing 270 years ago, said:
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
What does that mean?
Dr. John Rumberger writes, “Well he [Ben Franklin] was right. Not only because the apple contains vitamins and minerals, but also because it is a major source of fiber. Maybe three apples a day keeps three doctors away!”--Dr. John Rumberger
http://www.trans4mind.com/explore/health/16863.html
Sadly, too many English students around the world know of Ben Franklin only as an American politician and the person on the USA $100 bill. He was much more than that.
Benjamin Franklin was a curious person whose many inventions came out of a need or a perceived need. He loved to ask questions and find the answers to those questions in experiments. Possibly his most famous invention is electricity. He published his first writings on the subject in 1747; four years later, he published the book Observations on Electricity. He performed his famous kite experiment the very next year.
He thought that metal would act as a conductor for lightning in a storm. Not really having a laboratory that could contain lightning, he had to improvise. So he did the now famous act of tying a metal key to a kite and flying both high in the air during a lightning storm. Why did he choose the kite? Well, he didn’t want to wait for lightning to strike the ground because that type of experiment could take years to complete, since lightning strikes on the ground are few and far between. So he came up with the kite as a way of getting the metal key up into the air, where lightning was more likely to strike it. He was lucky, of course, that he wasn’t killed by the jolt. Scientists today still use many ideas that Benjamin Franklin advanced beginning with that famous kite flight in June 1752.
Many of his other inventions came from a personal need or observation:
• He had bad eyesight and had to switch between eyeglasses of two different magnifications in order to read things up close or see things a little farther away. He got tired of all the eyeglasses switching, so he invented bifocals.
Benjamin Franklin said many wise and humorous things, including:
--“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
--“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Do a search on line and see what you can find out about this amazing man!
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/benjaminfranklin1.htm
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