Trois, deux, un… décollage ! Ces exercices conquête spatiale commencent par le vocabulaire de l’espace, te font raconter la mission Apollo 11 au prétérit, puis t’embarquent dans un dialogue et l’écriture d’un journal de bord.
Les exercices
Onze exercices conquête spatiale
Exercice 1 : le vocabulaire de l’espaceTraduis chaque mot en français.
- a rocket
- a spacesuit
- the crew
- to land
- a footprint
- weightless
- the countdown
- to take off
Trouve le mot qui correspond à chaque définition : astronaut – helmet – Moon – orbit – crew – gravity – launch.
- A person who travels into space.
- All the people who work on a spaceship.
- It protects an astronaut’s head.
- It goes around the Earth and we can see it at night.
- The force that makes things fall to the ground.
- To send a rocket into space.
- To travel around a planet again and again.
Conjugue les verbes entre parenthèses au prétérit.
- On 16 July 1969, a huge rocket (take off) ___ from Florida.
- Three astronauts (be) ___ on board.
- Michael Collins (stay) ___ in orbit around the Moon.
- On 20 July, the lunar module (land) ___ on the Moon.
- Neil Armstrong (step) ___ onto the Moon first.
- Armstrong and Aldrin (walk) ___ for about two and a half hours.
- They (collect) ___ more than 20 kilos of rocks.
- Millions of people (watch) ___ them on TV.
- The astronauts (come) ___ back to Earth on 24 July.
Associe chaque date à l’événement : a) Apollo 11 lands on the Moon – b) the first satellite, Sputnik – c) the first woman in space – d) the creation of NASA – e) the first man in space – f) work starts on the ISS.
- 1957
- 1958
- 1961
- 1963
- 1969
- 1998
Complète la phrase célèbre, puis réponds aux questions.
“That’s one small ___ for a man, one ___ leap for ___.”
- Quel est le premier mot manquant ?
- Quel est le deuxième mot manquant ?
- Quel est le troisième mot manquant ?
- Quel mot de la phrase est le contraire de small ?
- Que signifie mankind en français ?
Lis le dialogue entre Chloe et sa grand-mère, puis réponds en anglais.
Chloe: Grandma, do you remember the first steps on the Moon?
Grandma: Of course! I was twelve. We didn’t have a TV, so we went to our neighbours’ house.
Chloe: Was it late?
Grandma: Very late! It was nearly four in the morning in France. My little brother fell asleep on the sofa.
Chloe: What did you see?
Grandma: The picture was black and white and very blurry. But when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, everybody stood up and cheered.
Chloe: Did you want to become an astronaut?
Grandma: Yes! For a whole year I drew rockets in all my exercise books.
- How old was Grandma in 1969?
- Where did she watch the Moon landing? Why?
- What time was it in France?
- What happened to her little brother?
- What was the picture like?
- What did everybody do when Armstrong stepped onto the Moon?
- What did Grandma draw for a whole year?
Écris la question au prétérit qui correspond à chaque réponse, avec le mot interrogatif donné.
- (When) Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969.
- (Who) Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon first.
- (Where) The rocket took off from Florida.
- (How many) Three astronauts went on the mission.
- (How long) They walked on the Moon for about two and a half hours.
- (What) They brought back rocks.
Ces phrases sont fausses. Écris une phrase négative au prétérit, puis la phrase juste.
- Neil Armstrong landed on Mars.
- Yuri Gagarin was American.
- Apollo 11 took off from New York.
- Michael Collins walked on the Moon.
- The capsule came back in the Atlantic Ocean.
- The first woman in space flew in 1990.
Dans chaque groupe, un mot n’a pas sa place. Lequel ?
- rocket – spaceship – spacecraft – submarine
- helmet – spacesuit – gloves – swimsuit
- launch – take off – lift-off – lunch
- Armstrong – Aldrin – Collins – Gagarin (équipage d’Apollo 11)
- Moon – Mars – Earth – Florida
- La fusée a décollé à 9 h 32.
- Les astronautes se sont posés sur la Lune.
- Dans l’espace, on flotte.
- Neil Armstrong a été le premier homme à marcher sur la Lune.
- Est-ce que tu veux devenir astronaute ?
- Ils n’ont pas vu d’extraterrestres.
Imagine que tu es Buzz Aldrin. Écris cinq phrases au prétérit dans ton journal de bord du 20 juillet 1969 :
- ce que tu as ressenti au moment de l’alunissage ;
- ce que tu as vu par le hublot ;
- ce que tu as fait sur la Lune ;
- un détail sur la gravité ou ta combinaison ;
- ce que tu as pensé en regardant la Terre.


