Animals in the air. Spotlight 8, Module 3a. Fill in the gaps

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Animals in the air

Once upon a time, a long time ago in the year 1777, there were two ____________ named Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. They loved science and wanted to invent new things. One day, while sitting by the fire, Joseph noticed something strange - his _________ started floating up! He was very curious and decided to do an experiment. He threw some pieces of ________ into the fire and watched as they flew out of the chimney. Joseph realized that smoke and ____________ could make things go up in the air!

Joseph and Jacques were so excited about this discovery that they decided to make their own flying __________________. They used paper and ____________ to create a big balloon, they burned straw to make it float. For their first trip, they put a ______________, a duck, and a chicken in the basket. The animals went up in the air and came back down _____________ and sound. A lot of people came to watch this amazing sight!

The brothers were so happy with their invention that they wanted to share it with more people. They asked the king if they could send _____________ up in the balloon, and the king said yes! In ___________, the first human flight happened. The balloon went really high in the sky, and everyone was amazed. This was the start of a new tradition called hot-air ballooning, where people could fly up in the air using balloons filled with hot air. It all began because Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier loved science and never stopped experimenting!

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Animals in the air

The first hot-air balloon journey in history was in 1783. It was in ______________. The Montgolfier ________________, Joseph and Jacques, made the balloon.

One day Joseph was _______________ next to the fireplace and noticed that his __________ went up into the air. When he put small parts of ____________ in to the fireplace he saw them coming out of the chimney. He decided to make a _____________ to carry people.

The first passengers to fly in it were _____________________. On 19 September 1783, brothers put a sheep, a _____________ and a chicken in a basket under a big balloon made of paper and _________. The balloon went up into the sky. After eight minutes they came back down safe and ___________.

Then, on 21 November 1783, the Montgolfiers sent a balloon up into the sky with some people inside it after they got a _______________by the king. The balloon went 500 metres into the air. It flew for five miles before it came back down to the ground. After that, lots of other people started to fly in balloons.