Дидактический материал по английскому языку на тему "Space" 11 класс

Talking in general, we live in the Galaxy. The word ‘galaxy’ has Greek origin and it can be translated ‘milky’ from the Greek language. There is a Greek myth about Hera, the Goddess of Heaven, who sprayed (by accident) her milk across the sky. That’s how the Milky Way Galaxy appeared.

The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral galaxy. When we look in the night sky we can see our Milky Way Galaxy as a band full of twinkling lights that stretches across the sky. It is easier to see it when air is absolutely clean and dark, so go away from the smoggy city air with bright lights. Then you can see a lot of stars that form different constellations.

Our Solar system consists of the Sun and planets; such as our planet Earth and the Moon. But there are other planets and moons. Actually, in our Solar system there are 61 different moons. There are many dwarf planets. There are comets. Comets are small, icy bodies that orbit the sun. They have very long tails. There are asteroids that are also called minor planets; they are rocky or metallic objects.

There are meteoroids. Meteoroids travel through space. They can be stony, metallic, or both stony and metallic and they are smaller than asteroids. Most are very tiny. Meteoroids burn if they trap to Earth’s atmosphere and we start calling them meteors. And if they fall down to the Earth’s surface and became stones, we call them meteorites.

We have already known that the Sun is the center of our Solar system; the planets that orbit the Sun are: Jupiter, Saturn Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus and Pluto. Uh… So many names!

Чтобы запомнить порядок планет на орбите есть такое выражение:

"My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas",  первая буква каждого из этих слов обозначает планету

Посмотрите видео https://youtu.be/i8EqFqVEhiM (нажмите ctrl и щелкните ссылку).

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Выполните задание:

Задание 1. Используя выражение"My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas",  поставьте слова в правильном порядке:

Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.

Задание 2. Спишите текст.Подчеркните выделенные слова.

In our Solar system there are a lot of dwarf planets. There are comets. Comets are small, icy bodies that orbit the sun. They have very long tails.

Also, there are asteroids that are called minor planets. They are rocky or metallic objects.

Meteoroids travel through space. They can be stony, metallic, or both stony and metallic and they are smaller than asteroids. Meteoroids burn if they trap to Earth’s atmosphere and we start calling them meteors. And if they fall down to the Earth’s surface and became stones, we call them meteorites.