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Listen Up Bölüm 16

By: Anıl Albağlar

Narrated by: Anıl Albağlar

Welcome back! Evdeyken, yanınızda bir öğretmen yokken nasıl çalışıyorsunuz? (Çalışıyor musunuz diye sormuyorum!!) Özellikle reading ve listening çalışmalarınızı çoook verimli hale getirecek bi bölüm hazırladım size. Enjoy!

Questions:

1. In space, eating dry foods is easy. True or false?
2. Astronauts take a shower often to stay clean. True or false?
3. Astronauts become weak because there is no _______ in space.

Okay, let’s talk about living in space. Eating in space is the most difficult of all. Astronauts have to be careful because their food can float away. Sticky foods are the best, and crumbly food is not sent to space because crumbs will float around on the spacecraft. Dry foods are ideal to have in space because they weigh less and take up less room. If I were an astronaut, I’d probably have dry foods all the time. I don’t like struggling with my food. I like it when food is easy to eat. Maybe that’s why I eat lots of fast food... Anyway

Sleeping in space is an adventure, too. Some astronauts like to sleep floating free on the spacecraft, although there is always a chance of bouncing off a wall. Other astronauts sleep better if they are in a sleeping bag because this feels more like sleeping in a bed on earth. They can even fasten a pillow to their heads with a strap! So they have to tie the pillow to their heads... ahh that doesn’t sound very comfortable...

Staying clean is harder in space, too. There is no shower on the spacecraft, so astronauts have to take a bath with the help of a sponge. Just imagine, there is not running water, so you can’t take a shower. You just use a sponge to clean yourself. They can brush their teeth as they do at home, but they have to be very careful and quick because the drops of toothpaste can float away. The astronauts have to put all the waste and garbage in bags and have to bring them back home to Earth. They cannot dump them into space! Going to the bathroom is not very difficult in space. The toilet on the spacecraft just uses airflow to carry waste away from the astronaut’s body.

One of the most important things astronauts must do every day in space is exercise. Without gravity, the human body becomes weak. Therefore, to keep their bodies strong, astronauts must exercise regularly by using special machines like the rowing machine.

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