1. Carlos Andrés Gaviria
English 5 Listening and Speaking
Universidad de Nariño
March 2014
San Juan de Pasto, Nariño Colombia

2. The Moon is
the Earth’s
natural
satellite. It
has circled
around the
Earth for at
least four
billion
years.

3. The Moon is
by far the
brightest
thing in the
night sky.
But it has
not light of
its own.

4.  The
large, dark
patches
visible on the
moon’s
surface are
called
seas, but in
fact they are
not seas at
all.

5. As the Moon goes around the Earth, sometimes
it passes right into Earth’s shadow, where
sunlight is blocked off. This is a lunar eclipse.

6. It takes to the
Moon 27.3 days
to circle the
Earth, but 29.53
days from one
full Moon to the
next, because
the Earth moves
as well.

7. When the Moon
orbits the Earth its
provides
gravitational
forces. The change
in the gravitational
forces causes the
water levels to rise
and lower.

8.  The Moon
look like
Swiss cheese
because it is
full of holes
and can
appear
yellowish.

9. The changing
shape of the
bright part of
the moon
that we see is
called it’s
phase.

10. The first men on the
Moon were Neil
Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin of the
US Apollo 11
mission. They
landed on the
Moon on July 20,
1969.
By: Carlos Andres Gaviria
Listen and Speaking v.