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Listening and Speaking

A. Discuss with a partner.
If an extinction-level meteor, like the ones in films
like Armageddon, Deep Impact and the more
recent Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,
was on a collision course with Earth, ...
1. where would you go?
2. what three special objects would you take
with you?
3. what’s one thing you would want to do before
it hit?

B. Look at the sentences about meteors and meteorites. Do you think they are true or false?
1. The largest known meteorite on the planet weighs 30,000 kg and can’t be moved.

2. The largest meteorite discovered so far hit Alabama in 1920.
3. Some meteorites are fragments of our sun.
4. Meteors can travel through space at up to 70 km per second.
5. Hitting our atmosphere causes meteorites to slow to less than 100 kph.
6. If a meteorite hits you, it will always kill you.
7. When there is a meteor shower, you can see up to 100 meteors an hour.
8. Most meteorites are made of ice.

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C. Listen to the recording. Correct the false sentences in exercise B.

D. Listen again. Tick the phrases you hear.

Phrases to talk about accepted facts Phrases to talk about expectations
Anyone can tell you that... I don’t really know what I was expecting.
Everybody knows that... I thought it’d...

Few would deny that... It turned out to be...
I think we can all agree that... I suppose I should’ve known.
It’s common knowledge that... I’d imagined something (a little more)...
It’s no secret that... I presume you’re going to...
I was (pleasantly) surprised.
If it hadn’t been for..., I never would’ve...

E. Discuss with a partner.

1. Have any meteorites fallen in your country?
2. Where’s the best place to find fallen meteorites? Why?
3. How can you identify a meteorite from a terrestrial rock?
4. When is the best time to see the Perseid meteor shower?

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