English · Astronomy and the Solar System

Forming questions about measurement — how far/how long/how big...?

Match how far, how long and how big to the right kind of answer

  • Experimental sciences important
  • Mathematics important
  • Engineering important
  • Management and economics important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Forming questions about measurement (how far/how long/how big ...?)

The method

  1. Match the 'how + adjective' question word to the unit of measurement expected in the answer

From the lesson

Imagine you are talking to an astronaut. You want to know one fact: the distance from Earth to the Moon. What question do you ask?

The vocabulary

  • how far (إلى أي مدى)

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