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Space stories

Hello, everyone. Would you like to do some revision exercises about the use of articles and listen to some funny stories about space and astronauts? Good, that's the spirit.

All right. First of all, here you have some links in which you'll find some exercises that'll help you with the use of articles in English. Enjoy!

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

Well, after all the hard work, you deserve something good.
Firstly, you can read a newspaper article from abc news about astronauts taking ipods on their space trips. After all, they have plenty of time out there so they should use their time wisely and music is a great pastime.
What do you listen to on Orbit? Astronauts take ipods (from ABC news, NY)

Secondly, it would be a good idea to practise some listening. Here you have a link in which you can watch a news item about threat of space-craft debris. Apparently, NASA is concerned a satellite collision may harm the Hubble space telescope.
Threat of Space-craft debris (from ABC news, New York)

Finally, would you like to listen to some Apollo audios and see some movie segments from the NASA archive? Here you have the link:
Apollo audios and movie segments

That's all for now!

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