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Our Universe




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OUR UNIVERSE

Listen to the Universe song and do the tasks:

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1. Write the missing words:

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Or a�
or a� for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a�
� which is part of a
That sits upon a planet known as
.
And the� is a ball full of oceans and some
Which is out there spinning silently in .
And living on that Earth are the plants and the

And also the entire human race.

2. Put the lines of the song into the correct order:
�We're just tiny little specks

�And we are small and dinky����������������������������������������

�It's a great big universe

�About the size of Mickey Rooney.

�It's big and black and inky

�And we are all really puny

�It's a big universe and we're not.

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3. Unscramble the words in the following lines:

And we're part of a vast interplanetary ysstme
Stretching seven�ddherun �billion miles long.
With nine planets and a nsu ; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be rwgno .
Across the interstellar voids are a billion oadisrtes
Including meteors and Halley's�omcet �too.
And there's over fifty�soomn �floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.

4. Choose the correct word:
And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion
In a� we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion �from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the .
'Cause there's a hundred billion� that stretch across the sky
Filled with , planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little !

YW+D : It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
* Though we don't know how it got here
* We're an important part here
* It's a big universe and it's ours!

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