Language Focus

Complete the conversation by circling words. Then listen and check. 

Chris: What (1) (do you do / are you doing)?

Beth: (2) (I give / I'm giving) a presentation next week, so (3) (I’m researching / I used to research) my topic.

Chris: Oh, yeah? What (4) (are you planning / did you use to plan) to talk about?

Beth: (5) (I’ve talked / I'm going to talk) about the spacecraft Voyager 1.

(6) (l used to be / I’ve been) interested in space ever since I was in elementary school.

My third-grade teacher (7) (taught / has taught) us about it.

Chris: (8) (I don’t know / I’m not going to know) anything about it.

Beth: Well, NASA (9) (launched / was launching) Voyager 1 in 1977.

From 1977 to 2012, it (10) (traveled / has traveled) through our solar system.

It carried all kinds of things from Earth, like recordings of languages, music, and photos.

If aliens (11) (find / will find) this spacecraft, (12) (they learn / they’Il learn) a lot about Earth.

Well, (13) (they learn / they'll learn) about Earth in 1977.

Chris: What (14) (happened / has happened) in 2012?

Beth: (15) (It left / It’s going to leave) our solar system. Since then it (16) (was continuing / has continued) to travel.

But scientists think (17) (it runs out of / it'll run out of) power around 2025.

Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of words. Listen and check. 

In 1969, the spacecraft Apollo 11(1) ___________ (land) on the moon for the first time. Since then, scientists (2) ___________ (learn) many things about our closest neighbor. Only 12 people (3) ___________ (be ever) to the moon. Those astronauts (4) ____________ (go) there between 1969 and 1972. This was during a period of time when scientists (5) ___________ (study) the moon very closely.

Today, NASA astronauts (6) ___________ (plan) another trip to the moon. They (7) _____________ (want) to go before 2020. If they (8) ____________ (go), they (9) __________ (learn) more about the moon than ever before. Other countries (10) ___________ (make) preparations to go to the moon, too. India, China, Japan, and Russia all (11) __________ (have) plans in place. Some private companies (12) ___________ (hope) to make a profit from moon tourism. They (13) ____________ (begin) to take reservations for future flights.