Which Subject Is It?

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Topic: School Subjects

Mode: Interpretive

Level: Intermediate

Students will read sentences and decide on what subject the person being described is studying. 

Instructions to the students 

Read the following sentences and write your answers in the blank space. Answer options are given below.

Questions

  1. Sally is drawing a floor plan of a house. What subject is she studying? ______________

2. Dev is listening to Sally’s heartbeat through a stethoscope. What is he studying? ______________

3. Jill is building a machine that can drill holes. What is she studying? ______________

4. Mike is painting a picture of a butterfly – it looks real! What is he studying? ______________

5. Drew is taking photos of a model under different lights. What is he studying? ______________

6. Jane is solving an equation to find X. What is Jane studying? ______________

7. David is mixing chemicals in a test tube. What is he studying? ______________

8. Grant is practicing taking the blood pressure of all his classmates. What is he studying?______________

9. Mary is writing a new computer program to help blind people. What is she studying? ______________

10. Matthew is looking at the stars through the telescope every night to see how they change. What is he studying? ______________

11. Liz is looking at a sick horse. What is she studying? ______________

12. Sarah is making her friend stretch their back so that their back pain will go away. What is she studying? ______________

Answers (may vary slightly): 

  1. Architecture 

2. Medicine

3. Mechanical engineering

4. Art

5. Photography

6. Mathematics

7. Chemistry

8. Nursing

9. Computer programming

10. Astronomy

11. Veterinary science

12. Physical therapy