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Level 1

Match the Synonym!

1. Launched	A. Go
2. Destroyed	B. Live
3. Oxygen	C. Accident
4. Survive	D. Break
5. Disaster	E.  Gas

Answers:

1. Launched = A. Go
2. Destroyed = D. Break
3. Oxygen = E. Gas
4. Survive = B. Live
5. Disaster = C. Accident

True or False?

1. Apollo 13 was the third ship to land on the Moon. False

2. The flight went very well. False

3. NASA had to work very hard. True

4. The ship ran out of oxygen. True

5. The astronauts never lost power. False

Unscramble the sentence!

1. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon first.

2. It was the third ship to try and land.

3. The explosion destroyed a lot.

4. They had to go into the moon lander.

5. NASA had to work very hard.

Listening and Vocabulary

Explosion	Solve	Moon
Lifeboat	Land	Called

1. Moon
2. Land
3. Explosion
4. Lifeboat
5. Solve
6. Called

 

Level 2

Match the Synonym!

1. Launching	A. Container
2. Broadcast	B. Quality
3. Oxygen	C. Go
4. Tank	D. Show a program.
5. Condition	E. Gas

Answers:

1. Launching = C. Go
2. Broadcast = D. Show a program.
3. Oxygen = E. Gas
4. Tank = A. Container
5. Condition = B. Quality

True or False?

1. NASA had never been to the Moon before Apollo 13. False

2. There were 3 astronauts on Apollo 13. True

3. The explosion happened during a TV broadcast.  False

4. The moon lander was designed to bring the astronauts back to Earth. False

5. The astronauts had to turn the power off.  True

Unscramble the sentence!

1. Apollo 13 was the third NASA mission to land on the Moon.

2. Apollo 13 went to space 9 months after Apollo 11.

3. The explosion was in the oxygen tanks.

4. The astronauts had to go into the moon lander.

5. The conditions in the spaceship were very bad.

Listening and Vocabulary

Astronauts	Survive	Destroyed
Lifeboat	Heating	Played

1. Astronauts
2. Destroyed
3. Survive
4. Lifeboat
5. Heating
6. Played

 

Level 3

Match the Synonym!

1. Evidenced	A. Show a program.
2. Broadcasting	B. Circling
3. Approximately	C. Do something.
4. Radioed	D. Skilled move.
5. Looping	E. By radio
6. Manually	F. Done by you.
7. Execute	G. Prove
8. Manoeuvre	H. Come back.
9. Reentry	I. About

Answers:

1. Evidenced = G. Prove
2. Broadcasting = A. Show a program.
3. Approximately = I. About
4. Radioed = E. By radio.
5. Looping = B. Circling
6. Manually = F. Done by you.
7. Execute = C. Do something.
8. Manoeuvre = D. Skilled move.
9. Reentry = H. Come back.

True or False?

1. Apollo 13 was the first mission to land on the Moon. False

2. No TV networks chose to broadcast Apollo 13. True

3. In 1970, people had grown disinterested with travel to the Moon. True

4. There was no noise to warn the astronauts there was a problem. False

5. The “large bang” occurred during the TV broadcast. False

6. One of the oxygen tanks had depleted completely. True

7.  Captain Lovell noticed some liquid leaking from the ship into space. False

8. Apollo 13 was able to immediately turn the ship around and go back to Earth. False

9. The astronauts had to manually fly the ship. True

10. The crew built an oxygen filter out of materials they had. True

Unscramble the sentence!

1. April 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission.

2. The lack of interest in space travel at the time was evident.

3. Fred Haise was running tests of the lunar module.

4. The crew quickly realised the severity of the problem.

5. This meant they had to manually fly the ship.

Listening and Vocabulary

Designed	Worsened	Poisonous
Population	Module	Mission
Miraculous	Tanks	Position

1. Mission
2. Population
3. Module
4. Tanks
5. Worsened
6. Position
7. Poisonous
8. Designed
9. Miraculous