Unit14:SpaceConquest

Match ONE name with a suitable picture.
GAGARIN
PHAM TUAN
BUZZ ALDRIN
NEIL ARMSTRONG
NEIL ARMSTRONG
GAGARIN
BUZZ ALDRIN
PHAM TUAN
Reveal /rɪ’vil / (v): to make known [reveal sth to sb]


Sponsor  /’spɒnsər/ (v),(n): a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing


Architectural /ɑrkɪ’tɛktʃərəl/ (adj): structural


Envisage /ɛn’vɪzɪdʒ/ (v): to contemplate; visualize
New words:
 phát hiện, bộc lộ, tiết lộ
(v): đỡ đầu, bảo trợ, (n): người đỡ đầu, người bảo trợ
 thuộc về kiến trúc, thuộc xây dựng
 dự tính

Excursion /ɪk’skɜrʒən/ (n): a usually brief journey; outing


Frontier  /frʌn’tɪər/ (n): the part of a country that borders another country


demand /dɪ’mænd/ (v),(n): to ask for with proper authority,claim as right

conduct /kən’dʌkt/ (v): to lead or guide












New words:
 cuộc đi tham quan
 biên giới
 chỉ huy, hướng dẫn
 yêu cầu, sự yêu cầu
Reading text:
True
False
Check (√) whether the following statements
are true (T) or false (F)

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Answer the following question
1. What does NASA stand for?
NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
2. Why do people want to travel into space?
Because they love adventure and want to satisfy their curiosity.
3. What project is NASA sponsoring?
NASA is sponsoring a project to build a space station for holidaymakers.
4. How much does a trip to space cost?
It costs $8.000 million.
5. How would a hotel get food and water on the Moon?
On the Moon, a hotel would get water from lunar ice and get food from farms on the Moon’s surface.
6. How would tourists walk on the Moon?
They would walk on the Moon by wearing special boots.
Top 10 cool facts about space
1.Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars.

2. Astronauts get taller when they are in space

3. If you put Saturn in water it would float

4. We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second

5. The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old


6. If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together

7. Earth has at least 4 moons

8. One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

9. If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around
3,000 years to count them all.

10. If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn`t be able to hear you.