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Our Universe
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OUR UNIVERSE
Listen to the Universe song and do the tasks:
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1. Write the missing words:
Yakko: Everybody lives on a street in a�
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Or a�
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or a�
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for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a�
� which is part of a
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That sits upon a planet known as
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.
And the�
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is a ball full of oceans and some
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Which is out there spinning silently in
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.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the
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And also the entire human race.
2. Put the lines of the song into the correct order:
�We're just tiny little specks
�And we are small and dinky����������������������������������������
�It's a great big universe
�About the size of Mickey Rooney.
�It's big and black and inky
�And we are all really puny
�It's a big universe and we're not.
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3. Unscramble the words in the following lines:
And we're part of a vast interplanetary
ysstme
Stretching seven�
ddherun
�billion miles long.
With nine planets and a
nsu
; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be
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.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion
oadisrtes
Including meteors and Halley's�
omcet
�too.
And there's over fifty�
soomn
�floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
4. Choose the correct word:
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion
mars
cars
stars
In a�
galaxy
fantasy
difficulty
we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion
tiles
miles
files
�from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the
way
away
lay
.
'Cause there's a hundred billion�
fantasies
galaxies
difficulties
that stretch across the sky
Filled with
complements
obstacles
constellations
, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little
year
gear
jar
!
YW+D : It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
* Though we don't know how it got here
* We're an important part here
* It's a big universe and it's ours!
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