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Activities. Listening gap fill. Correct the spelling. Unjumble the words. what do you know about astronauts? How would you describe this profession?
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ACTIVITIES
LISTENING GAP FILL
A long time ago, robots ____________________ fiction. Children loved looking at movies with robots. Today, robots are real, and ____________________. In the future, we will all have robots. They will vacuum the floor, wash the dishes, ____________________ our cars. I even think one day we’ll have robot friends. In Japan today, ____________________ making robots to help old people and to ____________________. It’s still early days. I’d say we are another 20 to 30 years away from robots ____________________ in our lives. What will happen to us when the world is full of robots? There’ll be no jobs. McDonalds will be ____________________. Maybe one day we won’t be able to tell robots and humans apart. Maybe ____________________ world.
CORRECT THE SPELLING
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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS
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What do you know about astronauts? How would you describe this profession?
What do astronauts do?
Everyone knows that astronauts work in space. But what do they do out there?
Some astronauts are mission specialists who fly or navigate the space shuttle. In other words, they are pilots. Other astronauts are specialists who work with the equipment that is launched into space, for instance conducting scientific experiments or replacing parts of satellites.
In brief, an astronaut’s tasks divide into three areas: supply, repair and research, not to mention self-care.
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Supply
A considerable amount of equipment is orbited in space. However, some are carried into orbit in the payload bay of a space shuttle and launched by its crew. Currently, astronauts work mostly with transport of equipment, new modules, supplies and crews for the international space station.
Repair and maintenance
Sometimes astronauts visit orbiting satellites for maintenance and repair. Often they work using the space shuttle’s robotic arms, but sometimes they pull a satellite into the payload bay so they may work more leisurely. Sometimes they put on their space suits and soar to a satellite that is moving at a speed of seven kilometers a second or more.
Self-care
Weightlessness requires astronauts to spend a considerable amount of time on exercise and self care. Exercise in space is so important that it’s part of the job, a duty that cannot be shirked. Astronauts exercise every day. Space shuttle astronauts, who seldom are in space for more than two weeks at a time, exercise half an hour a day. But astronauts on the space station must exercise two hours a day to stay healthy.
So astronauts have more than enough to keep themselves busy and seldom have time to be bored on the job. An astronaut with spare time can just gaze out the window…
Adapted from < http: //www. spacecentre. no/English/Spaceflight/Astronauts/>
2) Read the text and find:
a) What are the areas in which the astronauts’ tasks are divided?
b) Underline what astronauts do in the supply area.
c) What tools do astronauts use to do maintenance in space?
d) Do astronauts exercise? Why?
3) In your opinion, what are the positive and negative points of his job?
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