Academical purposes

1. Activity 1

2. Objectives
Students will
• Use vocabulary related to space
• Use new vocabulary to read about space exploration
Target Vocabulary Galaxy, journey, one way trip,
orbit, planet, solar system, space, spacecraft, travel,
universe
Content Vocabulary Exploration, helium, hydrogen,
mission

3. What do you know about space exploration? Name a
space mission or space program that you know of. Think about
it. Then listen and read.
We live on the planet Earth.
Earth is part of our solar system and it orbits the sun. The sun is
at the center of our solar system.
Our solar system is a small part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our
galaxy is one of many millions of galaxies in the universe.
In the past , we could only look at the stars and planets through
telescopes.
Now, we have he technology to find out about these stars and
planets. We can send astronauts into space. We also use robot
spacecraft for every long journeys to distant planets in our solar
system.

4. The Juno Mission
The spacecraft Juno left Earth in August 2011.In July
2016, Juno began to orbit around the planet Jupiter.
Now , Juno is sending information about Jupiter back
to Earth.
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. Like
the sun, its atmosphere is made mainly of two gases:
hydrogen and helium.
Juno´s misión is a one-way trip. It won´t return to
Earth. In 2018, It will fly into Jupiter and It will be
destroyed.
The New Orizons Mission
On January 19, 2006, the robot spacecraft New
Horizons began its long journey to the very edge of
our solar system , just past Neptune. This area is called
the Kuiper Belt. It is a ring of icy rocks, some comets
and some dwarf planets. One of the dwarf planets is
Pluto. New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015, and
It is now traveling toward other objects in the Kuiper
Belt. The New Horizons mission will help us to
understand the outer edge of our solar system.
1. Learn new words. Listen and
repeat.
2. Why do you think scientists are
so interested in finding out
about other planets?
3. How can this knowledge help
us on Earth?