English Level:
Advanced
Content Warning:
spiders, technical language, many metaphors
Vocabulary
I have chosen not to include the definitions here to give you the opportunity to find the information yourself. The information you find this way will stay with you longer. Please take the time to find out the meaning of the vocabulary.
Catastrophic
Pre-dawn
Xenon
Hushed
Worm (verb)
Hatch (object)
Conscious
Nozzle
Mass
Vastly
Accelerating
Wicket
Cement
Self-propelled
Spacewalk
Unfathomable
Spasm
Panic
Meteorite
Dozen
Dauntingly
Put into practice
Pre-Listening
These warmup questions are intended to introduce you to the topic
- What is the scariest thing you have ever done?
- Who was the first person in space? First person on the moon?
- What is the ISS?
- How fast does the ISS move?
- What is the Overview Effect?
- What are you afraid of?
- What is Johnson’s No More Tears?
- What is a SOYUZ spacecraft?
Listening
As you listen, try to answer these questions.
You may need to listen more than once.
- What is the most dangerous thing that Chris has done?
- What are the two options “when you wake up at Kennedy Space Center”?
- How do you get into a spaceship?
- When did he decide to be an astronaut?
- What is the phrase that they have in the ‘astronaut business’?
- How does it feel to sit in the shuttle before take off?
- Was does a shuttle launch feel like?
- Why did Chris take the risk to go to space?
- Why did his second eye go blind?
Video
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Post-Listening
Reflect on what you have learned.
- “There is no problem so bad, that you can’t make it worse.” Describe a time when this was true for you.
- How do YOU deal with fear vs danger?
- What is the Overview Effect?
- Going to space changed Chris’ view of the world. What has shaped (or changed) your view of the world?
- What makes humans different from other animals?
- Identify at least one key issue from this video that you could research more.