CLIL MODULE 1 Space Race ACTIVITY 1.A BRAINSTORMING Think about the words given below and try to explain with your classmates what they have in common. EARTH ACTIVITY 2.A MOON ROCKET STARS VOCABULARY Match the words to their Italian translation. Use a dictionary if necessary. 1. competed a. satelliti 3. race c. atterr 2. satellites 4. flew 5. spacecraft 6. landed 7. leap 8. broadcast ACTIVITY 2.B b. salto d. astronave e. vol f. erano in concorrenza g. trasmesso h. gara LISTENING Listen to the recording and insert the words given below into the text. listening space people astronaut minutes mission conquest to orbit watched step success During the Cold War the USA and the USSR competed against each other on many fronts. One of them was the so-called space race , a race for the of space. Initially the Russians had great . In 1957 they launched two artificial satellites around the Earth; in 1959 the Russian Sputnik flew around the Moon. On the 12th of April 1961 the Russian Jury Gagarin flew around the Earth for 108 . He was the first man to orbit the Earth. During the following years the USA launched a program of voyages called Apollo. On 20th July 1969 the American spacecraft Apollo 11 landed on the Moon s surface. The commander was an astronaut called Neil Armstrong. When he took his first on the Moon, he said the famous words: That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind . The event was broadcast live worldwide and was by approximately 900 million . In Italy 20 million people watched the event. ACTIVITY 2.C TRUE OR FALSE Select the correct answer. 264 1. The space race was a race for the conquest of space. T F 3. The first man to orbit the Earth was Neil Armstrong. T F 5. Nobody knew about the event. T F 2. In 1959 the Russian Sputnik flew around the Earth. T F 4. The first man who took the first step on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. T F
