Question: An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature, by passing an electric current through it, until it glows with visible light (incandescence). The hot filament is protected from oxidation with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, filament evaporation is prevented by a chemical process that redeposits metal vapor onto the filament, extending its life. The light bulb is supplied with electric current by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass. Most bulbs are used in a socket which provides mechanical support and electrical connections.

Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than most other types of electric lighting; incandescent bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light, with standard light bulbs averaging about 2.2%. The remaining energy is converted into heat. The luminous efficacy of a typical incandescent bulb is 16 lumens per watt, compared with 60 lm/W for a compact fluorescent bulb or 150 lm/W for some white LED lamps. Some applications of the incandescent bulb deliberately use the heat generated by the filament. Such applications include incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks, infrared heating for industrial heating and drying processes, lava lamps, and the Easy-Bake Oven toy. Incandescent bulbs typically have short lifetimes compared with other types of lighting; around 1,000 hours for home light bulbs versus typically 10,000 hours for compact fluorescents and 30,000 hours for lighting LEDs. 1. What is the energy source for an incandescent bulb?
2. Is it hot?
3. How does it get hot?
4. How is is protected?
5. How about in a halogen bulb?
6. How does the bulb get its energy supply?
7. Are incandescent lights efficient?
8. How much energy do they convert to light?
9. What happens to the rest of the energy?
10. How many lumens per watt does an incandescent bulb create?
11. What about a fluorescent bulb?
12. An LED bulb?
13. What are other uses of incandescent bulbs?
14. How long does an incandescent bulb last?
15. What about fluorescent?
16. And LED? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. a wire filament
2. yes
3. by passing an electric current through it
4. with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated.
5. a chemical process
6. by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass.
7. no
8. less than 5%
9. it is converted into heat
10. 16
11. 60 lm/W
12. 150 lm/W
13. incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks
14. around 1,000 hours
15. 10,000 hours
16. 30,000

Question: James was a nice old man who lived by himself. Every day he would walk down the road by his house and say hello to everyone. It was fun saying hello to everyone but he felt lonely sometimes. He wanted a pet to take care of. One day as he was walking down the road a little brown and spotted puppy came up to him and wanted James to pet him. James reached down and petted the puppy and smiled. James hoped to see the puppy again. Many days later James went for a walk again. He thought to himself, "I guess I won't ever see the brown puppy again. I hoped to see him again." A nice young lady said to James, "Would you like a puppy?" James said, "I would like a puppy that was like the one I petted before." The lady smiled. She was holding the little brown and spotted puppy. She told James that she found the little puppy in the woods. She said that the little puppy did not have a family. James said happily, "I would love to give the puppy a home!" So James grabbed the little brown and spotted puppy and took him home. James and the little brown puppy became great friends. James named him Spotty. 1. Who is James?
2. Does he live alone?
3. How often does he goes out?
4. What does he meet one time?
5. And what color is it?
6. When did he see it again?
7. Who had it?
8. Where was it before?
9. What did James do?
10. Why?
11. What did he call his dog? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. A nice old man
2. Yes
3. Every day
4. A puppy
5. brown
6. Many days later
7. A young lady
8. in the woods
9. Took the puppy home.
10. Because he felt lonely sometimes
11. Spotty

Question: Syria, officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. The western two-thirds of Syrias Golan Heights are since 1967 occupied by Israel and were in 1981 effectively annexed by Israel, whereas the eastern third is controlled by Syria, with the UNDOF maintaining a buffer zone in between, to implement the ceasefire of the Purple Line. Syria's capital and largest city is Damascus.

A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, Syria is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including Syrian Arabs, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians, Mandeans and Turks. Religious groups include Sunnis, Christians, Alawites, Druze, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, Yazidis, and Jews. Sunni Arabs make up the largest religious group in Syria.

In English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as "al-Sham"), while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. Its capital Damascus and largest city Aleppo are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt. 1. What country are we discussing?
2. What's the official name?
3. What borders it?
4. What about to the north?
5. And on the east?
6. Is it near Israel?
7. Is it on the boarder too?
8. What border?
9. Does it have a mixture of ethnic groups?
10. Who you say there are more than 3?
11. Name one ethnic group?
12. Can you name another one?
13. Are there lots of religions there two?
14. Would you stay more than 6?
15. What's the largest religious group?
16. What is it synonymous for in English?
17. What's the capital?
18. And largest city?
19. Is it pretty old?
20. Do a lot of people still live there? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Syria
2. Syrian Arab Republic
3. Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west
4. Turkey
5. Iraq
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. southwest.
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Syrian Arabs
12. Greeks
13. there are more than two.
14. Yes I would
15. Sunni Arabs
16. Levant
17. Damascus
18. Aleppo
19. Yes it is
20. Yes