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6. Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the space agency ‘nasa’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them.

  • 7. Guess what is depicted in the following pictures.

  • 1) _______________________ 2) _________________________

  • 3) ____________________________ 4) ___________________________

  • 8. In pairs / groups, talk about the pros and cons of a spaceport being built on the edge of your town. Use the items in the left hand column to help your conversations.

    • Pros

    • Cons

    • Noise

    • Jobs

    • Being a world-famous town

    • Tourism

    • House prices

    • Roads and transport

    • Your ideas

  • 9. Find some interesting facts about moonlets. Make a mini-presentation to other students on your findings.

  • 10. You have watched the BBC Horizon film “Asteroids: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Make a list of scientific discoveries about asteroids. Discuss the information considered.

  • UNIT 4. ELEGANT UNIVERSE IS BACK IN FASHION

  • 1. Watch the programme “The Elegant Universe”. Make a list of its main items. Share this information with other students.

  • 2. Before reading the text say what you know about Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider and supersymmetry.

  • 3. Match the word with its definition.

    • 1. boson

    • a. device or instrument designed to detect the presence of a particular object or substance

    • 2. particle

    • b. a neutral subatomic particle with a mass close to zero and half-integral spin, which rarely reacts with normal matter

    • 3. detector

    • c. a subatomic particle, such as a photon, which has zero or integral spin and follows the statistical description given by S. N. Bose and Einstein

    • 4. quark

    • d. any of numerous subatomic constituents of the physical world that interact with each other, including electrons, neutrinos, photons, and alpha particles

    • 5. neutrino

    • e. any of a number of subatomic particles carrying a fractional electric charge, postulated as building blocks of the hadrons