Activity 3c Listen and check. 5 min
Objective: to develop listening skills
The pupils listen to the DVD and check their answers.
DVD script and answer key:
A few hundred years ago travelling to the New World was very (1) dangerous.
Today (2) travelling into space is as diffi
cult as opening a new continent.
Scientists have done a lot to make space travelling less dangerous. To travel into
space a spaceship needs as much fuel as 42,000 cars! The (3) journey from Earth
to space lasts around 8 minutes. Space starts at 100 km above the Earth.
Russian spaceman Yuri Gagarin was the (4) fi rst human in space. His fl ight
was in April 1961.
The fi rst (5) spacewoman is Valentina Tereshkova. She fl ew in June 1963.
Before her fl ight she was a factory worker. She loved sport and went parachuting.
The fi rst Uzbek spaceman is Vladimir Dzhanibekov. When he was at
school, his favourite (6) subjects were physics and mathematics. His hobbies
are photography and painting. Most of his works are about space. People can see
them in museums and private collections. He is also interested in ballooning and
fl ying around the world.
Neil Armstrong was the fi rst man, who (7) walked on the moon. It happened
in July 1969. Since 2000, (8) spacemen from diff erent countries can live and
work at the International Space Station.
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