Pre-reading questions:
I will read each question. Then, please answer them.
講師がそれぞれの質問を読むので答えましょう。
- Do you like outer space?
- Do you want to go to the moon?
Vocabulary:
I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me.
単語、意味、例文を読みます。講師に続いて音読しましょう。
- healthy /HEL-thee/
- floor /FLOHR/
- hour /OU-er/
- type /TAHYP/
- moon /MOON/
[adjective] – strong and well
She’s a normal, healthy child.
[noun] – the lower surface
The bathroom floor needs cleaning.
[noun] – a period of 60 minutes
There are 24 hours in a day.
[noun] – a particular group of people or things that share similar characteristics and form a smaller division of a larger set
What type of clothes does she wear?
[noun] – the round object that moves in the sky around the earth and can be seen at night
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
Article reading:
Please read the whole article. Then, I will check your pronunciation and intonation.
記事を音読しましょう。講師はあなたの発音とイントネーションを確認します。
After correcting the messaging with Earth, the NASA CAPSTONE CubeSat is said to be “happy and healthy.” This means that the spacecraft can communicate with the earth’s floor again after 24 hours when it could not. On Wednesday, the going back to the same type of messaging was said “yes” by Advanced Space, which is in Colorado and is the company that built, owns, and operates CAPSTONE; Terran Orbital. It also built the CubeSat platform and NASA. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is the first step in NASA’s Artemis program, which wants to send people back to the moon by 2025. The CubeSat is about the size of a microwave oven. And its mission is to map out an unusual orbit around the moon known as a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), which may one day be used for a space station.
True or False:
Read the sentences and identify if they are true or false based on the article.
文章を読んで、記事に基づいて正誤を答えましょう。
- The Advance Space company is in Colorione.
- NASA’s Artemis program begins with CAPSTONE.
- NASA’s CAPSTONE CubeSat is “happy and healthy” after fixing its Earth communications.
- The CubeSat is about the size of an elephant.
- People will be sent back to the moon by 2024.
Fill in the blanks:
Choose the correct word from the table then fill in the blanks.
適切な言葉を選んで空欄を埋めましょう。
| healthy | floor | hour | type | moon |
- The bag is on the _______. I hope it is not dirty yet.
- A lion is a _______ of animal. It is considered the king of the forest.
- The boy is _______. He can run fast.
- The _______ is big. It can be seen at night.
- You have one _______ to finish it. That is plenty of time.