Corrigé conquête spatiale : anglais en 4e

1. une fusée
2. une combinaison spatiale
3. l’équipage
4. se poser, atterrir
5. une empreinte de pas
6. en apesanteur
7. le compte à rebours
8. décoller

1. astronaut
2. crew
3. helmet
4. Moon
5. gravity
6. launch
7. orbit

1. took off (irrégulier : take, took, taken)
2. were (sujet pluriel)
3. stayed (y précédé d’une voyelle : on garde le y)
4. landed
5. stepped (on double le p)
6. walked
7. collected
8. watched
9. came (irrégulier : come, came, come)

1. 1957 : b – the first satellite, Sputnik
2. 1958 : d – the creation of NASA
3. 1961 : e – the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin)
4. 1963 : c – the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)
5. 1969 : a – Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
6. 1998 : f – work starts on the ISS

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

1. step
2. giant
3. mankind
4. giant
5. l’humanité, le genre humain

1. She was twelve.
2. She watched it at her neighbours’ house, because her family didn’t have a TV.
3. It was nearly four in the morning.
4. He fell asleep on the sofa.
5. It was black and white and very blurry.
6. Everybody stood up and cheered.
7. She drew rockets in all her exercise books.

1. When did Apollo 11 land on the Moon?
2. Who walked on the Moon first? (question sur le sujet : pas de did)
3. Where did the rocket take off from?
4. How many astronauts went on the mission? (question sur le sujet : pas de did)
5. How long did they walk on the Moon?
6. What did they bring back?

1. He didn’t land on Mars. He landed on the Moon.
2. He wasn’t American. He was Soviet. (ou Russian)
3. It didn’t take off from New York. It took off from Florida.
4. He didn’t walk on the Moon. He stayed in orbit.
5. It didn’t come back in the Atlantic Ocean. It came back in the Pacific Ocean.
6. She didn’t fly in 1990. She flew in 1963.

1. submarine : un sous-marin va sous la mer, pas dans l’espace.
2. swimsuit : un maillot de bain, pas un équipement d’astronaute.
3. lunch : le déjeuner ! Les trois autres parlent du décollage.
4. Gagarin : il était soviétique et n’a pas participé à Apollo 11.
5. Florida : c’est un État américain, pas un astre.

1. The rocket took off at 9.32. (ou : at nine thirty-two)
2. The astronauts landed on the Moon.
3. In space, you float. (ou : people float)
4. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.
5. Do you want to become an astronaut?
6. They didn’t see any aliens.

Exemple de réponse modèle :

1. When the Eagle landed, my heart was beating very fast.
2. Through the window, I saw grey dust and a black sky.
3. I walked, I jumped and I collected rocks with Neil.
4. My spacesuit was heavy, but on the Moon I felt very light.
5. When I looked at the Earth, I thought it was small and beautiful.