The Hotel on Mars
Flyers coaching · Reading & Writing Part 2 · Space and Science
Oliver and his uncle
Oliver loves looking at Mars through his telescope. His uncle is an engineer and he works on space projects.
Vocabulary
- Mars — This is the red planet, next to the Earth.
- hotel — A building where you pay to sleep when you are on holiday.
- telescope — A long tube that you look through to see stars and planets.
- orbit — Go round and round a planet or a star.
- solar system — The Sun and all the planets that go round it.
- launch — Send a rocket or a ship up into the sky or out to sea.
- gravity — The force that pulls things down to the ground.
- engineer — A person who plans, builds or fixes machines, roads and bridges.
- window — Glass in a wall that you can look through.
- planet — A very big round thing in space that goes round a star, like the Earth.
Sample questions (10 questions)
- Oliver: Will people ever stay in a hotel on Mars?
- Yes, they do.
- I stayed there.
- Yes, I think they will, one day.
- Oliver: How long will the journey take?
- About seven months.
- At seven o’clock.
- Seven people.
- Oliver: What will the rooms be like?
- I’ll like them.
- Small, with big round windows.
- Yes, they will.
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