Tuesday 18 October 2011

Listening Homework

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
VIDEO 1
http://www.videojug.com/interview/fun-science-planet-earth#why-dont-we-feel-the-earth-spin

FILL IN THE GAPS AS YOU LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING VIDEO:

Why don't we feel the Earth spin?
Yes, the earth is 1-………………… and it's spinning really 2-……………… and why can't we feel it happen? Because we're on it, we're 3-………………… of it, it's all relative. It 4-………………be like if you were 5- ………………. in a car on a highway going sixty five miles an hour and you look to the car right 6-………………. you, and it doesn't appear to be 7-………………… at all because it's going the 8-……………..rate. This is same thing when we're on the earth; we're moving very, very, fast, but everything around us is moving at the same 9-……………….., so we can't really 10-…………….. the speed. But, the 11-………………… to the equator we are, actually, the 12-…….............. we are moving.


VIDEO 2

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS TRAILER:

1- What's the height of Mount Everest?
2- What did George Mallory dream of?
3- At what height  and which year were he and his friend last seen?
4- How many years later did they start to look for his body?
5-  Do people believe that he was the first to set foot on the top of the world?