What was the most unusual day of your life? Describe it to your schoolmate. Then read Kira’s story about how she spent an unusual day. As you read, do the given tasks.

Inspired by the text I’ve read about the Earth hour, I decided to do a project on my own. At first, I wanted to spend one whole day without using any kind of machine, but soon found out that that was going to be very hard. The first problem was to decide what a machine was. Do all the machines use electricity or some kind of energy to work? I checked the dictionary, just to find out that there was a whole page of the ‘machine’ definitions. I started reading:

This is where I stopped reading. Where were a lot more definitions there, but I think these were the most important for me at that moment. I read them 3 or 4 times and tried to understand everything. Realising that simple machines were in fact simple mechanisms worried me – unless I slept in the open air, I wouldn’t be able to get our of my bedroom in the morning, because the door handle is a simple machine and I wouldn’t be able to climb out of the window either because I’d have to use another simple machine to open it!