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| space | tourism |
| recent | phenomenon |
| space | travel |
| personal | intense |
| wealthy | studies |
| primary | pleasure |
| uniqueness of | fiction |
| thrilling | advantages |
| described by | individuals |
| extremely | attraction |
| mind | tanks |
| status | successes |
| various | experience |
| initial | boggling |
| public | feeling |
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| science | symbol |
| fuel | interest |
| feasibility | astronauts |
| express | access |
| * * * | |
| personal | spaceflight |
| common | landing |
| space | company |
| average | importance |
| enjoy | crew |
| moon | experiments |
| decreased | structures |
| starve | belief |
| decide | later |
| television | venture |
| a week | to allow |
| seventh | in detail |
| TV-broadcast | race |
| scientific | flight |
| shuttle | a holiday |
| private | candidate |
| explored | for cash |
| inflatable | from orbit |
| first | family |
| * * * | |
| Japanese | singer |
| Express | companies |
| suborbital | station |
| circumlunar | transport |
| space | vehicles |
| maintenance | concerns |
| American | millionaire |
| former | hope |
| band | flight |
| dismantle | costs |
| computer | problems |
| making | missions |
| funding | tourism |
| health | businessmai |
| put on | date |
Unit 2. Space Tourism
| Soyuz available launch interstellar |
| scientist hold the trip Mir |
* * *
| commercial more money-making several minutes of projected current paying American public receive licensing safety of a week-long best case lunar orbital manned motel |
| weightlessness flight property missions stay companies proposition scenario passengers process affordable soil spacecraft costs a license tycoon law safety trip |
Match the synonyms in the columns. Translate the pairs and
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| space tourism | cosmonaut |
| executive | spacecraft |
| aim | private |
| personal | different |
| businessman | space travel |
| corporation | common |
| agreement | company |
| safety | security |
| abandon | entrepreneur |
| astronaut | director |
| various | build |
| average | habitat |
| vehicle | purpose |
| rocket | transport |
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hotel contract
construct reject
Match the antonyms in the columns. Translate the pairs and
| find them in the text. | |
| primary | private |
| increase | argue |
| initial | commercial |
| public | international |
| subsidiary | final |
| agree | late |
| early | free-paying |
| wide | secondary |
| free | narrow |
| national | the latter |
| the former | decrease |
9. Form antonyms using negative prefixes un-, in-, il-r im-r ir-r dis-r
Mis-. Consult the dictionary if necessary.
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Personal, advantage, manned, reality, available, agreement.
10. Make a summary of the text.
11. Choose the right word from the list below. Translate the article.
JOURNEY INTO SPACE
Pioneer 10 left Earth in 1972 and began to cross the _____________________________________________
______________ asteroid belt four months later. Some people said it
would be____________________ to find a way through the dust and
______________ millions of rocks that lie beyond the inner planets; but
despite its very__________________ technology Pioneer made a
___________________ crossing and went on to carry out its first mission: to study Jupiter.
It continued past the___________________ planets until 1983, crossing the
paths of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto before finally entering the vast
_____________ area outside our solar system. There it will maintain
course on its_______________________ journey, passing close to Proxima
Centauri in 70,000 years' time. Eventually,______________ believe,
in the safe vacuum of deep space, it may even________________________ the
Earth, which in five billion years will_________________________ as the Sun grows
ever bigger and swallows up our tiny planet.
Unit 2. Space Tourism
Basic, outer, unexplored, successful, unknown, impossible, endless, countless, outlive, disappear, scientists.
12. Give missing derivatives (nounsr verbs, adverbs and adjectives) from these words and translate them.
| Verb | Noun | Adjective | Adverb |
| To fly | ------ | ||
| proposal | ------- | ||
| successful | |||
| endlessly |
13. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons.
For agreement use: For disagreement use:
That's right. I think that's wrong.
I am with you here. I am not with you here.
I fully agree. I don't really agree.
Definitely. Definitely not.
Exactly. On the contrary.
1. Space tourism was invented many years ago.
2. People have always dreamed of going into space.
3. The primary attraction of space tourism is the unique experience of weightlessness.
4. There are many science fiction stories about space travels.
5. The average family of the early 21st century can enjoy a holiday on the Moon.
6. The first space tourist was Dennis Tito.
7. After the Columbia disaster the Russian Soyuz program was put on hold.
8. The Soyuz rockets are the only vehicles available transport to ISS.
9. The space trip price is $20 million.
10. Suborbital flights will be much cheaper than orbital ones.
11. There also circumlunar trips available to space tourists now.
12. Orbital tourism will soon be superseded by planetary and interstellar tourism.
13. There are lectures on space tourism in many universities around the world.
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14. Many companies want to build space hotels.
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14. Discuss.
1. Popularity of space tourism will increase.
2. Space tourism will always be affordable to only extremely wealthy people.
3. The average family of the 21st century will be able to enjoy a holiday on the Moon.
4. International Space Station needs space tourists in order to offset its maintenance costs.
5. Everybody can go on a space trip if they have enough money.
6. Licensing is a very useful procedure when it comes to space travel.
7. The importance of space exploration decreased after the Moon landing.
8. Suborbital tourism will be more popular than orbital tourism.
9. Space hotels will be very popular with families and children.
10. Space hotels will be constructed within our lifetime.
15. Speak about... one of Russian or foreign astronauts and his/
Her space experience.
16. Explain why space tourism is gaining popularity.
17. Divide into two groups. One group is for popularizing of space