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Trip to Mars

Elon Musk is very rich. He owns a technology company named SpaceX. At a meeting about space travel in Mexico, he told everybody about his plan to bring people to Mars. He said his company is making a spaceship that can bring many people to Mars.

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He says in the future he sees many people living there in a city. But he thinks it will be difficult to make the price low so people will want to go. He thinks the price for the first trip will be 100,000 or 200,000 US dollars.

 

SpaceX wants to fly to Mars one time every two years. These are times when Earth and Mars are closest together. Elon Musk said he wants the first trip to be in 2024. But NASA does not plan to send a person to Mars for the first time until ten years after that.

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Musk says it will be difficult to get money for the project. Making the spaceship will cost around 10 billion US dollars.

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Mars has no air. It is about 225 million Kilometers away from Earth, but this change because planets move around the sun. After flying to Mars, landing on the planet and trying to live there is a very difficult goal. Elon Musk says that they cannot promise that people who go on the trip will live.

Quiz

1. What is Elon Musk's job?

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2. What does SpaceX want to do?

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3. How much will it cost to go to Mars?

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4. What year will SpaceX go to Mars?

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5. What will be difficult about living on Mars?

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Loch Ness Monster

For a long time, people in Scotland have told a story about a monster. They say it lives in Loch Ness Lake.

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Some people even claim they have seen the monster. This happens more often now than in the past because people take pictures of the unusual things they see in the lake. Every year, many tourists travel to Scotland for the possibility of seeing the Loch Ness Monster.

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Now, scientists are trying to discover if the monster is real or not. They are going to take water from the lake and test it. They will compare the DNA they find in the water from other animals and water tests around the world.

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Vocabulary

1. Claim - to say something is true without proof

2. Unusual - strange, weird แปลก

3. Possibility - something that can happen ความเป็นไปได้

4. Discover - find, learn ค้นพบ, เรียนรู้

5. Compare - to see how two things are the same or different

Quiz

1. What is Loch Ness?

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2. Where is it?

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3. What is strange about this place?

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4. Why are more people saying they saw the monster        than before?

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5. What do tourists hope for when they visit Loch Ness?

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6. Who is trying to learn if the monster is real?

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7. How will they do it?

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8. What do you think the tests will say?

Asteroids

A group that tracks nuclear weapons saw that 26 large explosions happened between 2000 and 2013. But none of them were nuclear weapons, they were asteroids.

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The group made a video of what it would look like if an asteroid hit a city. Scientists used to think that the chance of an asteroid hitting earth was very small, but it is bigger than they thought.

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NASA already watches very big asteroid to see where they will go. If one is big enough and it hits the earth, it can have very bad results.

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Vocabulary

1. Nuclear weapon - อาวุธนิวเคลียร์

2. Explosion - ระเบิด

3. Scientist - นักวิทยาศาตร์

4. Used to - เคย

5. Chance - โอกาส/ความเป็นไปได้

6. Enough - พอ

7. Result - ผลลัพธ์

Quiz

1. What type of explosions does the group follow?

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2. How many did they find between 2000 and 2013?

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3. What was different about these explosions?

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4. How were the scientists wrong about the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth?

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5. Who usually tracks asteroids?

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Trump Balloon

The US government said that they would allow a group of people to use a balloon in the July 4th celebrations. The balloon is of a fat Donald Trump baby. The government said that they could use the balloon close to where Donald Trump will speak, but not to fly it high in the air.

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The group is unhappy. They wanted Trump and everybody at the celebration to see their fat baby Trump balloon. They said it should be okay because the balloon would not stop anybody from seeing the president, but Donald Trump would see the balloon.

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They said that America is a free country, and they should be allowed to fly their balloon how they want.

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The fat baby Trump balloon is very famous. When Donald Trump visited London, people used the balloon to show they do not like him or his government.

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Vocabulary

1. Allow - ยอม

2. 

Quiz

1. When does the group want to fly their balloon?

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2. Who did they need permission from?

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3. Where is Trump's speech?

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4. Where will they fly the balloon?

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5. Why are they mad about the location?

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6. Where did the balloon fly for the first time?

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7. Why do you think it is important for this group to have the balloon in the  "line of sight" of Trump's speech?

Life Saving Dog

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Poncho, an eight-year-old dog, is very popular on the internet. At a display of police dog skills in Madrid, the dog ran to his partner when he fell on the floor.

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The dog quickly began CPR, leaping onto the officer’s chest and even rubbing his head onto the policeman’s neck, as if he was checking for a pulse.

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Poncho repeated this until his friend woke up, and the crowd roared with applause.

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Vocabulary

1. Display - to show something การแสดง

2. CPR - a way to help someone when their heart stops

3. Pulse - heartbeat หัวใจเต้น

4. Roar - to make  a loud noise เสียงดัง

5. Applause - cheering and clapping เชียร์

 

 

 

Quiz

1. Where is Poncho from?

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2. What is his job?

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3. What does he do at his shows?

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4. Who does he help?

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5. What does he do to help them?

Gucci The Dog

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In Australia, a dog named Gucci is a new hero. He saved his owner from a fire in his house.

George, Gucci's owner, was sleeping in his house when the fire started. Gucci barked and it woke George up. George and Gucci left the house safely.

George went to the hospital to make sure he was okay. He says Gucci saved his life.

"A dog is a man’s best friend,” George said.

George’s neighbor, said that George lost everything in the fire and he might be dead if it wasn’t for Gucci. George’s house burnt down.

The fire may have been started by a cigarette or candle. George said he didn't hear his fire alarm.

"Fire alarms are best, but dogs are good too," a fire fighter said.

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

  1. Owner - เจ้าของ

  2. Bark - the sound a dog makes

  3. Make sure - check to be sure of something

  4. Burnt down - burnt completely

 

 

Quiz

  1. Where did this story happen?

  2. Did George hear his alarm?

  3. What woke George up?

  4. Why did George have to go to the hospital?

  5. What happened to George’s house?

  6. What started the fire?

Cynthia's Work Day

In a Meeting

My working day starts very early. From Monday to Friday I get up at half past three and I have a shower and a cup of coffee. I usually leave the house at ten past four because the taxi always arrives a few minutes early. I get to the TV studio at about five o'clock and start work.

My TV show, Good Morning Britain, starts at seven o'clock and finishes at nine o'clock. Then I leave work at a quarter past ten. After that, I get home at twelve o'clock. A woman helps me with the housework. I read a newspaper and do some work.

Then my husband gets home at half past five in the afternoon and I cook dinner. We stay at home in the evening. We don't go out because I go to bed very early. We usually watch television and then I go to bed at half past eight, I'm usually asleep by nine o'clock.

On the weekends, I don't get up until ten o'clock. In the evening, we often see some friends or go to the cinema. But I'm always up early again on Monday morning.

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

  1. Half past three - 3:30 or 15:30

  2. Usually - Normally, most of the time ปกติ

  3. Arrive - To reach a place ถึง

  4. Studio - A place where TV or movies are filmed โรงถาย

  5. Quarter past ten - 10:15 or 22:15

  6. Housework - Things you do to take care of your home งานบ้าน

  7. Until - When something finishes

  8. Often - Happens many times บ่อย

 

 

Quiz

  1. What time does Cynthia get up during the week?

  2. How does Cynthia get to the work in the morning?

  3. What time does she arrive at the work?

  4. What time does the TV show begin?

  5. How long does the TV show last?

  6. What time does Cynthia get home?

  7. What time does her husband arrive home?

  8. Do Cynthia and her husband go out in the evening?

  9. What time does Cynthia go to bed?

  10. Does Cynthia stay in bed longer on the weekend?

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