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INEBI 6. UNIT 3
The Universe
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Reading Earth in Space (OUP, Oxford Literacy Web)
Great Astronomers
By Jenny Armstrong and Mike Roberts
Tycho Brahe
(1546-1601)
1. Read one or more sections of the text about Tycho Brahe. Tick () the
words you know and look up the words you don’t understand.
Introduction
observed
catalogued
stars
building
scientific
instruments
see
more
then
ten times
detail
observations
Caption to portrait
impulsive
competitive
argument
student
who
better
mathematician
duel
which
lost
part
nose
afterwards
gold
silver
Early life
was
eldest
son
wealthy
danish
sent
university
age
study
law
saw
eclipse
sun
prediction
movements
disapproval
spent
time
money
A new star
noticed
new
bright
daylight
great surprise
people
believed
since
Aristotle
fixed
The Castle of the Heavens
lectures
gave
work
island
proud
Castle of Heavens
achievements
Laboratory
king
library
Denmark
brass
heavens
sextant
measure
proved
beyond
Earth
globe
next to
team
recorded
went
wrong
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2. Find sentences in the text that mean the same:
Tycho Brahe said he was better at
mathematics than another boy.
The boy broke a part of his body.
He started to be interested in
Astronomy after a solar
phenomenon.
Brahe used a big instrument to see
where a new star was.
A monarch gave Brahe a place to
build an observatory.
Brahe thought that the Earth was
the centre of the Solar System.
3. Can you write the chronology of Tycho Brahe’s life? First, spot the
numbers of the years in the text and write next to them what happened
in those years.
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Reach for the Stars
By Fiona MacDonald
Reading a poem: The Night has a Thousand Eyes
(Francis William Bourdillon 1852-1921)
1. Read the poem for the first time. What kind of poem do you think it is?
Tick if you agree:
Nursery Rhyme
Tongue Twister
Romantic Poem
2.- Which word or words gave you the clue?
3.- Read the poem again.
The Night has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
When day is done
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
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Which is the meaning of the word “eyes” in the first verse of the poem, and
which one it is the “one” of the second verse?
In the sixth verse the poet says that the heart has only one “eye”, what do
you think it means?
The
Sun
An
only
love
A
star
SA
The poet is making a comparison between the first four lines and the last
four lines. What do you think he is comparing?
The night and the mind
The sun and the stars
Day and night
Love and the night
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Reading Earth in Space (OUP, Oxford Literacy Web)
Reach for the Stars
By Fiona MacDonald
Reading: “Signs of the Zodiac”
1. Before reading.
What do you know about the signs of the zodiac?
Answer TRUE or FALSE before reading the text on pages 16 and 17 of
“Reach the Stars” by Fiona Macdonald.
TRUE or FALSE
a) The signs of the zodiac we use, come from the
ancient cultures of the Mediterranean area: Ancient
Egypt, Greece and Rome.
b) They are based on characters from Ancient Egyptians
myths.
c) Each sign corresponds to a month.
d)The signs are constellations as well.
e) There are 14 signs .
f) All the signs are represented by animals
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2. While you read.
Look at the dictionary the words you do not understand and
group them according to their meanings.
Animals
Gods/goddesses/heroes
Family members
Actions (verbs)
Attributes (*)
Adjectives
(*)Attribute: Each god or hero has a responsibility or duty
assigned, for example Athena, goddess of wisdom.
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3. After reading.
Write the sign of the zodiac represented by the animals,
persons and objects in the left column and the corresponding
dates.
From:
To:
A ram
A bull
Twin brothers
A crab
A lion
A girl
Scales
A scorpion
A centaur
A goat
A nobleman
Two fishes
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Exploring Space
By Elizabeth Miles
The First Explorers
Here you have some events about the first living creatures in space. Rearrange them in
the order they happened and complete the table :
- when did it happen?
- which spacecraft was used?
- who was inside the spacecraft?
* The first woman in space.
* A spaceship was launched to orbit the Earth and it didn’t return.
* The first person to set foot on the Moon.
* The first human being in space.
* The first person to “walk” in space.
What happened?
When?
Spacecraft (country)
Who?
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Moon landing
Build a timeline showing what happened from 16 to 20th July 1969.
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