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Venture 1 Great Lives Video worksheet Edmund Halley 1 wrote the work Principia Getting started about gravity and the planets. What do you know about space? Answer the 2 was the Astronomer Royal questions: when Halley was young. • How many planets are there in our solar system? 3 Halley and Newton discussed astronomy at • When did people first travel into space? University. • Which country first sent astronauts to the Moon? 4 Halley travelled to to look at the stars of the southern hemisphere. Competences • What is a comet? 5 was the first man to travel into space. Check 6 was the first man to walk on 1 VIDEO Watch the video and choose the correct the Moon. answer. 1 The first astronomers… Language check A had better technology than we have today. 4 Write sentences using the Present perfect or B had simple technology like astrolabes and Past simple. telescopes. 1 scientists/never/find/life on another planet C didn’t know about the positions of the planets. ? D didn’t have telescopes. 2 Halley’s comet/appear/in 1986 2 Edmond Halley gave his name to… ? A a comet. 3 astronauts/ever/land/on Mars? ? B a planet. 4 when/Newton/discover/gravity? C a star. ? D an instrument. 5 Halley/be/a professor at Oxford University. 3 Halley accurately calculated… ? A when his comet would return into the Earth’s 6 only 12 people in history/walk/on the Moon orbit. ? B when a robot would land on a comet. 21st-century skills C when people would travel in space. Discussion D how gravity affected the Earth. 5 In pairs. Discuss these questions. • Has space exploration been useful for us? Is it still 2 VIDEO Watch again. Match the dates to the important? Should governments spend a lot of events in the video. money on it? 1 The first man travelled into space • How do you think space exploration will develop 2 The first man walked on the Moon in the future? Will we discover life on other 3 The first people went to live on a space planets? Will people live in space or go there for station holidays? 4 The Philae robot landed on a comet 5 Edmond Halley was born Webquest 21st-century skills 6 Halley published a study of comets 6 Choose one of the tasks below. Research your 7 Halley’s comet was visible in this year task on the Internet and produce a three-to- 8 Halley’s comet will appear again five-minute presentation or film. 1 Find information about Italian involvement in a 2000 c 2061 e 2014 g 1705 space projects. Who is involved? What did they b 1758 d 1656 f 1961 h 1969 do? 3 Complete the facts about space with the correct 2 Find information about Isaac Newton. What was names and places below. his early life like? How did he become interested in astronomy? What great discoveries did he Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin John Flamsteed make? How did he change people’s view of the Isaac Newton St Helena Cambridge universe? 5 Venture 1 Great Lives Video Edmund Halley © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE.

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