Match the two parts of the sentences
Have you ever been on a roller coaster?
Fill in the missing words
Coasters are bigger, , and wilder than ever before. But they didn’t out that way. New York City had roller coaster in America back in 1884. Its top was 6 miles per hour. Today roller coasters have zip. The fastest ones at more than 100 miles per hour!
Unscramble and fill in the missing words
What makes all of this fun lospebsi ?
Gravity. A tomro pulls the car you ride in up the first hill. But rigytva sends it down the hill. The psetere the hill, the more that gravity pulls you down the kartc . After the sitfr hill, the cars go up smaller hills. Gravity wsols the cars as they go up these hills. It also depess them up as they go down the hills.
Put the words in the correct order:
the ride fun. / of gravity / makes / The tug
make it dangerous / However, / too fast. / it can / when you go / also
but not / An automobile / a roller coaster. / has a brake,
today’s / are needed / computers / thrill rides. / to make / That’s why
they / a new coaster, / build / Before / a computer model. / make / engineers
as well as /They / to make sure / scary. / it is safe / want
Choose the correct verb and put it in the correct form:
break swing say help (x2) know explain be (x2) put go
Allan Schilke a top roller coaster designer. Computers him a lot. Schilke it this way: “Roller coasters around curves fast. This stress on your body.” Computers Schilke just how far to without doing harm. “There upper limits, because you can a bone,” he . Yikes!
Tick the true sentences:
Coasters keep getting scarier.
Less people want to ride them all the time.
A few hundred people take a coaster ride each year.
Experts say some people look for excitement.
“These people are attracted to thrills,” says psychologist Frank Farley.
So what’s next for coasters? Well, Schilke wants to build a 10-foot-tall ride.
That’s lower than a 50-story building.
The coaster would dive straight down the side of a skyscraper. Wow!
