LISTENING-Unit 11- The Golden Record

Read the sentences. The words and phrases in bold are used in the video. Match them with the correct definition.

1. 1. The spacecraft Voyager 1 was launched on August 20th, 1977.

2. 2. It is leaving our solar system and going farther into space.

• space

• a collection of planets (and their moons) that go around one sun

• spacecraft

• the region beyond the Earth’s atmosphere

• solar system

• a vehicle used for travel in space

• launched

• sent on a journey (e.g., a boat or a rocket)

Read the sentences. The words and phrases in bold are used in the video. Match them with the correct definition.

3. There’s classical music from Europe, and jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong.

4. 4. Voyager carries a message for other life forms in the universe.

• classical

• all of space and everything in it

• life forms

• type of music that originated in African American communities of New Orleans in the early twentieth century

• jazz

• living things or organisms

• universe

• type of music written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe

Watch Parts 1–2 of the video and answer these questions.

1 Why did Voyager 1 go into space?

2 Where is the Golden Record?

3 What is on the Golden Record?

Watch Part 1 of the video again. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1. A child is speaking on the first message in the video.

• True

• False

Watch Part 1 of the video again. Are these sentences true or false?

2. Voyager 1’s first mission was to photograph Jupiter and Saturn.

• True

• False

Watch Part 1 of the video again. Are these sentences true or false?

3. The Golden Record has information about the Earth in the year 2000.

• True

• False

Watch Part 1 of the video again. Are these sentences true or false?

4. A team of six people spent a year deciding what to include on the Golden Record.

• True

• False

How many photos are on the Golden Record? You can write numbers from 00-999.

Number these sounds in the order you hear them (1–5).

a. a human heart

b. a child crying

c. birds and frogs

d. wind and rain

e. a volcano

• 1-b; 2-a; 3-d; 4-e; 5-c

• 1-c; 2-d; 3-a; 4-e; 5-b

• 1-d; 2-e; 3-c; 4-a; 5-b

What language is each message recorded in?

a. “Hello everybody.”

b. “Hello? How are you?”

c. “Greetings to our friends in the stars. We hope that we will meet you someday.”

d. “Hope everyone’s well. We are thinking about you all. Please come here and visit when you have the time.”

• a. English b. Japanese c. Mandarin Chinese d.

  Arabic

• a. French b. Japanese c. Arabic d.

  Mandarin Chinese

• a. Spanish b. Russian c. Arabic d.

  Mandarin Chinese