1. Look at the pictures and complete the words related to space.

(Nhìn vào các bức tranh và hoàn thành các từ liên quan đến không gian.)

2. Write the correct word for each definition.

(Viết từ đúng cho mỗi định nghĩa.)

1. a scientist who studies the stars and planets: a_______

2. a device which uses mirrors to make distant objects look larger and closer: t_______

3. a vehicle that is able to travel in space: s_______

4. a man-made object moving around a planet in space - it can send digital information across the world: s_______

5. a person who travels in space: a_______

6. a building with lights on the ceiling which show the movement of planets and stars: p_______

7. the collection of eight planets (including Earth) and their moons that travel around the Sun: s_______ S_______

8. a system of millions or billions of stars - ours is called the Milky Way: g_______

3. WORD FRIENDS: Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.

(Hoàn thành câu bằng cách điền một từ vào mỗi chỗ trống.)

1. The satellite is ten metres _______.

2. The _______ is ten metres.

3. It's four metres _______.

4. The _______ is four metres.

5. Slow down! You're doing 120 kilometres per _______!

6. I live twelve kilometres _______ the planetarium.

7. It usually _______ me thirty-five minutes to cycle there.

4. Write the numbers.

(Viết các số.)

5. Write the numbers as words.

(Viết các số dưới dạng chữ.)

6. Choose the correct option.

(Chọn phương án đúng.)

1. The number of satellites/ telescopes in the Earth's orbit at the moment is estimated to be two thousand two hundred and seventy one / seventy-one.

2. Our galaxy / moon is over a hundred, thousand / hundred thousand light years across.

3. The rocket is twenty metres long / length and it's wide / width is five metres.

4. The closest star / spacecraft to our sun is four point two / four stop two light years away.

5. This new rocket is a spacecraft / planetarium which can carry fifteen astronomers / astronauts.

6. I live ten kilometres from / away my school. It takes / drives twenty minutes to get there.

7. There are eight planets / stars in our space station / solar system.

8. If you look carefully through the satellite / telescope, you can sometimes see a comet / moon.

7. Complete the text with one word in each gap.

(Hoàn thành đoạn văn bằng cách điền một từ vào mỗi chỗ trống.)

Space facts you might not know

The closest (1) _______ to Earth is Venus, which is over forty billion kilometres (2) _______.  The furthest planet from Earth in our solar (3) _______ is Neptune, which is up to 4.6 billion kilometres (4) _______ Earth. Some think that Pluto is the furthest at 7.47 billion kilometres away, but in 2006 scientists decided that Pluto is not actually a planet. The largest planet is Jupiter and it has at least sixty-seven (5) _______ in its orbit.

The first (6) _______ was Yuri Gagarin. He travelled on the (7) _______ Vostok 1 and in 1961 became the first man in space. Vostok 1 had a small width - only 2.3 metres (8) _______ and the mission lasted a hundred (9) _______ eight minutes. This was incredible at the time because a spacecraft has to travel at over 40,000 kilometres (10) _______ hour to leave the Earth's atmosphere.