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What Things Are Made Of
The materials that everything around you is built from.
- Teens and up
- Medium · B1
- 14 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- glass
- a hard clear material used for windows
- paper
- a thin material that you can write on
- iron
- a strong, hard grey metal used to make tools
- wood
- the hard material that trees are made of
- stone
- a small piece of rock
- silver
- a shiny greyish-white precious metal
- brass
- a shiny yellow metal made by mixing copper and zinc
- plastic
- a light man-made material that can be moulded into shapes
- concrete
- a hard building material made from cement, sand, and stones
- steel
- a very strong metal made from iron and carbon
- oily
- covered in or full of grease
- metal
- a hard shiny substance like iron or copper
- leather
- a strong material made from animal skin
- golden
- having the shiny yellow colour of precious metal
