SUBJECT:
COMPREHENSION
TOPIC: THE
CONQUEST OF
SPACE
CLASS: YEAR 5
WEEK: 5
W.A.L.T
■ Read the passage with fluency and
understanding.
■ Find keywords and their meanings.
■ Answer questions from the text.
COLLIN ENGLISH
SKILL BOOK 5.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
SPACE ADVENTURES
■ The farthest man-made object from Earth is the Voyager 1
spacecraft, which continues its journey into interstellar space
after being launched in 1977?
■ Astronauts experience up to 16 sunrises and sunsets each day
while aboard the International Space Station, due to its fast
orbit around the Earth.
■ The largest volcano in the solar system is not on Earth but on
Mars –
Olympus Mons stands about three times taller than Mount
Everest.
■ Black holes, one of the most mysterious phenomena in the
universe, have such intense gravitational pull that not even
CLASS
ACTIVITY
Understanding the
Text, numbers 1-5
HOME
WORK
Exploring the
article Numbers
8-13

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