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A. Watch and listen to the video, and then choose the correct answer by crossing one of the
following options
1. What is the shape of a planet? a. Round
b. Circular c. Triangular
d. Rectangular 2. What is the most important gas for human to live in a planet?
a. Methane b. Carbon dioxide
c. Ozone d. Oxygen
3. What is the main star in our solar system? a. Andromeda
b. Milky Way c. Sun
d. Aldebaran 4. Who is the inventor of telescope?
a. Albert Einstein b. Galileo Galilei
c. Sir Isaac Newton
d. Frederic Chopin 5.
In what year was radio telescope firstly used? a. 1960
b. 1967 c. 1970
d. 1976 6. Our earth is full with radio signal since ……. years ago.
a. 50 b. 60
c. 70 d. 80
7. What was launched in 1977? a. Voyager I
b. Voyager II c. Discovery
d. Sputnik
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8. “The Clark” telescope is located in ………… a. Adelaide Observatory
b. Oxford Observatory c. Lowell Observatory
d. Brunswick Observatory 9. What are two characteristics of Mars?
a. Has much atmosphere and little liquid water b. Has little atmosphere and little liquid water
c. Has no atmosphere and much liquid water d. Has little atmosphere and no liquid water
10. The young earth was…. a. Radioactive
b. Radioisotope c. Radiotelescope
d. Radiocreative
B. Watch the video again and fill the missing information in the box
Name Occupation
Organization
Seth Shustak Radio telescope expertise
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Physics Professor University of Adelaide
Frank Drake ……………………………………
SETI Institute Mikhael Mayer
Manager of exobiology program
…………………………………… Donna Shirley
…………………………………… NASA
Ken Herkenhoff ……………………………………
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…………………………………… Oxford University
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C. Pay attention to the ideas of the experts and their expression in stating their ideas. List some expressions agree disagree you find
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Do the crosswords and then discuss your answer with your friends next to you Ask and give opinion towards the answers of your friends’ State whether you agree or not with your
friends’ answers Across
1. A tool has lenses inside the tube and used for looking at the space things 5.
A country where its capital city is Washington .D.C
8. It is also called as smoke; it blocks
the air with its white color 9.
An animal similar to a snake but it is not venomous and lives in mud
10. The direction considered as “UP” in the map
13. The place where solar system belongs to
14. Unidentified flying object 16. The pole of magnet, directly
opposite in character or tendency 18. Part of the world rather than sea
and air 19. The first American astronaut who reached moon was……….
21. The constellation used to direct the sailorman to the south
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