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Space facts
Name:Date:
Hear large numbers, years and comparisons in facts about space.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/space-facts
Words to know
- orbit
- To travel around a planet or star.
- planet
- A large round object that moves around a star.
- station
- Here, a place where people live and work.
Answer key
- The Sun is about 93 million miles from the Earth.Write 93 million or the words.
- Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us.Write 8 or eight.
- Jupiter is more than 11 times wider than the Earth.Write 11 or eleven.
- The first person walked on the Moon in 1969.“Nineteen sixty-nine” is 1969.
- The International Space Station orbits the Earth about 16 times a day.Write 16 or sixteen.