Use a dictionary to do the tasks below.

Notice the spellings of these words in this lesson: airplane, program. This is how these words are spelt in American English. How are they spelt in British English?

Find pictures of beautiful things you have seen or heard of.

Write a paragraph about beauty. Use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem.

(You may discuss your ideas with your partner)

A space shuttle is a spacecraft that is made for repeated space travel (unlike a rocket), for example, between earth and a space station.

Use a dictionary to do the tasks below.

Find out the meaning of the following words and phrases (look up the words underlined in the phrases).

(a) Naturalized U. S. citizen ___________________________

(b) space __________

(c) frontiers of space ______________

(d) aboard _______________

(e) Lift off (How is it different from ‘take off’ ?) __________________

(f) crew ________________