An astronaut describes his daily life aboard the International Space Station. He is living there for six months with five astronauts from different countries including Russia, the US, China, and Japan. Every day they travel around Earth sixteen times, wake up at 6am, shower using special shampoo since water floats in zero gravity, get dressed, eat breakfast from tin cans, do work like experiments on computers, exercise for an hour, and in the evenings play games, chat online, or have video calls with family on Sundays.

1. Text adapted from Solutions elementary, OUP Gina Paschalidou
LIFE in SPACE
This is the International Space Station. I’m here for six months
with other five astronauts from Russia, the USA, China and Japan.
We travel around Earth sixteen times a day. We get up at 6
o’clock in the morning and have a shower. Everything floats in space
because of zero gravity, so water floats, too! So, we use a special
shampoo to wash our hair without water!
I get dressed in a T-shirt and shorts. We only wear spacesuits outside the space station.
Outside the temperature changes a lot. It’s 100C in the sun but it’s -100C in the dark!
Then, we have breakfast. We eat from tins and it isn’t very nice.
Later, we start work. We do experiments and work on the computers. Before dinner we do
exercises for an hour. Exercise is very important in space because we don’t move a lot. In
the evenings we play games, chat or use the internet and on Sundays we have a video chat
with our families. I miss my husband and my son so much!
A1 Read the textand underline the verbsin the presentsimple. Who iswriting it and what is his
profession(job)? _______________________________________________________________
A2 Read it again and findif the sentencesare TRUE or FALSE.
1 The astronautsare differentnationalities. ______
2 Theywashtheirhandswitha special shampoo ______
3 The foodtheyeat inspace iscommon. ______
4 Theywere spacesuitsonlyoutside. ______
5 Whenit’sdark, it’sverycold. ______
6 Theyexercise everyday. ______
7 Theyhave a videochat everyevening. ______
8 Theysurf the internet only atthe weekends. ______
B Answerthe followingquestionsfromthe text.
1 What the astronauts’work in the space station?
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2 What isstrange about the waterin space?
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3 What isstrange about theirfood?
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4 Why dotheyexercise everyday?
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5 How dotheyspendtheirtime inthe evenings?

2. Text adapted from Solutions elementary, OUP Gina Paschalidou
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6 What do theydoon Sundays?
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C Rewrite the secondand thirdparagraph usingthe subject she. Be careful with the verbs in
the third person.
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D Circle the followingwordsin the text.What do they mean?Explain themin English,Greekor
your language.
float:
including:
spacesuit:
tin:
temperature:
change:
do an experiment:
husband: ≠
E Complete the sentenceswiththe prepositions:on,in,at, by, for, from,with, to.
1 I was born ______ 1998 _______ Mumbai. My birthdayis_______ 30th
July.
2 I drinkcoffee only ______ the weekend.
3 We finishschool ________ 13.00 butnextweekwe’ll finish _______ 14.30.
4 Winter______ Greece starts ______ Decemberandends ______ February.
5 Some teacherscome to school _______ busbut some ______ car. Nobodycomes ______ foot.
6 _______ the afternoon she rests _______ some time and _______ the evening she reads and
does the housework. Later, _______ night she watches a movie or surfs _______ the internet.
7 Theyare _______ differentcountries,suchas India,ChinaandTurkey.
8 We alwaysplayvolleyball_______ Fridayevenings.
9 You’ve beenhere _______ 10 months.
10 Theygo ________ a weekendtripeverytwomonths.
11 He islooking_______ me withsurprise.
12 We love listening______ jazzmusic.