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A. Look at the highlighted words in the text and find their definitions in a dictionary.
B. How many planets are in the solar system? What do you know about them?
Listen, read and find out more.
• Mars is the fourth planet from
• Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Pictures of Mars show
the Sun. It is also called the ‘ice that there is water on it.
giant’ because it is very cold.

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• Neptune is the eighth planet from
the Sun. It takes Neptune 165 • The ifth planet from the Sun,
years to travel around the Sun Jupiter, is very big. You can it
because it is very far away. more than 1,300 Earths inside
this planet!

• Mercury is the closest planet to the
• Saturn has large rings around it. Sun. It travels at about 180,000 km
an hour. That’s really fast!

• The second planet from the Sun
is Venus. They call it Earth’s sister • From space you can see the blue,
planet because the two planets are white, brown, yellow and green
similar in some ways, for example in colours of Earth. It is the only
their size and mass. planet we can live on—for now!

C. Read the text again and complete the diagram with the names of the planets.

1. 2. 3. 4.

SUN

5. 6. 7. 8.

PROJECT
Make a 'Moon' poster!
A. Do some research on the internet to find information about the Moon and some pictures.
B. Use a large piece of card for your poster. Write 'Moon Facts' and stick the pictures you have
found on the card. Use the information you have found and write a few things about the Moon.
C. Present your poster to the class.

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