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experiment.
The list below gives the various stages of the summary, but they
are in the wrong order.

Match the stages with the seven sentences of your summary.
Observation Apparatus
Procedure Conclusion
Observation Procedure

Purpose of the experiment:
b) Look carefully at the stages of the summary and answer
these questions:
1. Could the structure be applied to any experiment?
2. Which parts could be left out, depending on the experiments?
3. Could the order be changed?

c) Name the stages in the magnetism experiment in Step 6.

Step 8

Read this description of one of Faraday’s experiments and make a
summary of it.
Use the structure you practiced in Step 7.

Oersted’s experiments did not have any immediate practical
application. All he had done, in effect, was to show that a wire
carrying an electrical current acts like a magnet. The thing that
most interested scientists was the question of whether the opposite
was true, could magnets be used to induce an electric current?
Michael Faraday an English scientist carried out a series of
experiments to find the answer to this question. His work led to the
development of the electric generator and so made it possible to
produce electricity on a large scale.
In one of his experiments, Faraday connected a coil to a
simple ammeter. Then he took a bar magnet and moved it quickly
towards the coil. The ammeter showed a momentary current.
When the magnet was moved quickly away from the coil, the

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