The Science of Santa PDF

HEAAADERLOGORIGHT GENERAL ENGLISH · ENGLISH IN VIDEO · INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA QrrkoD Scan to review worksheet Expemo code: 138M-L5JD-UU5T 1 Warm up The pictures show Christmas tradi...

HEAAADERLOGORIGHT GENERAL ENGLISH · ENGLISH IN VIDEO · INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA QrrkoD Scan to review worksheet Expemo code: 138M-L5JD-UU5T 1 Warm up The pictures show Christmas traditions about Santa Claus in the English-speaking world. Decide if the sentences are true or false. 1. Santa Claus is also sometimes called Kris Kringle or Father Christmas. 2. Santa’s sleigh flies by itself. 3. Santa has a pet reindeer called Rudolph. 4. Santa enters people’s homes through the door or windows. 5. People leave a plate of sandwiches for Santa to enjoy when he visits. FOOOOTERRIGHT Learn without forgetting! 1/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.  HEAAADERLOGORIGHT INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA 2 Before you watch You are going to watch a video called, "What If Santa Really Delivered Presents in One Night?" This video considers how the story of Santa Claus would be scientifically possible. Read these facts from the video and choose the best answers. Use the glossary to help. Then watch to check your ideas. 1. Around 600 thousand / 600 million / 6 billion people in the world expect a visit from Santa every year. 2. There are several children in every home, so Santa would only need to visit 24 million / 200 million / 240 million homes. 3. He would have 31 / 24 / 13 hours to deliver all the presents. 4. Santa would have to fly twice as fast as / 100 times as fast as / 1,200 times as fast as the fastest plane in the world. 5. Reindeer can run 18 / 80 / 118 kilometres per hour. 6. Santa’s bag of presents would weigh around 6,000 / 60,000 / 600,000 tons. 7. The reindeer would fly at 3 / 300 / 3,000 times the speed of sound. 8. When Santa sat in the sleigh, he would experience a force that is tens ofthousands / hundreds of thousands / millions of times stronger than gravity. 9. Santa would receive a total of 72 million / 720 million / 7 billion cookies from all the houses that he visited. 10. Santa would consume 39 million / 396 million / 396 billion calories if he ate all the cookies and drank all the milk that people left for him. Glossary: one hundred thousand: 100,000 one million: 1,000,000 one billion: 1,000,000,000 gravity: the force that pulls objects towards the earth Which number surprises you the most? FOOOOTERLEFT Learn without forgetting! 2/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.  HEAAADERLOGORIGHT INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA 3 Vocabulary Match these words and phrases from the video with their meanings. Group 1 1. accelerate a. accept that something is true without checking 2. assume b. include or consider a piece of information 3. deafen c. increase speed, start to go faster 4. factor in d. make someone lose their hearing 5. survive e. manage to stay alive in a dangerous situation Group 2 1. a rough estimate a. a difficult or dangerous experience 2. bystander b. a guess which is more or less correct, but not exact 3. load c. a person who is close to an event but is not actively taking part in it 4. massive d. the amount of something which an animal is carrying or pulling 5. ordeal e. very large 1. How are the words in Group 1 the same? 2. Which word in Group 2 is different to the others? 3. Which of these words would a space scientist use frequently? FOOOOTERRIGHT Learn without forgetting! 3/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.  HEAAADERLOGORIGHT INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA 4 Watch again Complete these sentences from the video with a word or phrase from the vocabulary exercise. Change the word endings if you need to so that the word fits the grammar of the sentence. Then watch the video again and check. 1 But if we consider certain religious and cultural traditions, we get of about 600 million people. 2 So the different Christmas Eve start times across the planet, and Kringle’s got a luxurious 31 hours to make his deliveries. 3 Since we don’t know exactly how fast a reindeer can fly, let’s they can manage those incredible speeds. 4 Even then, the they have to lug is much too heavy for them. 5 For starters, the team would create a sonic boom as they hurtle 6 through the air at 3,000 times faster than the speed of sound, any 7 on the ground below. 8 When a typical coaster , you get pushed back against your seat. 9 Let’s assume Santa and friends miraculously this 10. Glossary: lug: pull (informal) a sonic boom: a loud noise made by an airplane when it starts to travel faster than the speed of sound Think of something......that you assume when you meet a new English teacher...that accelerates to a very high speed...that you have to factor in when you plan how much money you need every month...that is massive...that can deafen you FOOOOTERLEFT Learn without forgetting! 4/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.  HEAAADERLOGORIGHT INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA 5 Language in context Choose the best meaning for these informal expressions in bold from the video, using the context to help you. 1. Legend has it that he drops by when the kids are asleep. So that gives him eight hours, right? a. it’s a true fact that b. the popular story says that c. Santa is a great guy because 2. So factor in the different Christmas Eve start times across the planet, and Kringle’s got a luxurious 31 hours to make his deliveries. Unfortunately, this is where his luck runs out. Because just to reach every house, he’ll have to fly 1,200 times faster than the world’s fastest jet fighter. a. the situation changes from good to bad b. the situation changes from bad to worse c. no one knows what’s going to happen 3. A force tens of thousands of times stronger than gravity would pin him to the sleigh, smashing his bones and internal organs to jelly. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Let’s assume Santa and friends miraculously survive this ordeal. a. everything is terrible b. no one understands why this happens c. there is something positive in this situation Can you think of any other contexts where you could use these expressions? 6 Talking point Discuss these questions in pairs or small groups. Use words and phrases from the lesson. 1. In your country, do you have a magic character that brings children presents at Christmas or another time of year? 2. When you were a child, did you believe in Santa Claus or in some similar character? 3. How old were you when you stopped believing this? 4. How did you find out the truth? 5. Do you think it’s healthy for children to believe in magic characters like Santa Claus? Why/not? 6. If/when you have a child, what will you tell them about magic characters like Santa Claus? FOOOOTERRIGHT Learn without forgetting! 5/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.  HEAAADERLOGORIGHT INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2) THE SCIENCE OF SANTA 7 Optional extension This video asks us to imagine that the story of Santa Claus is true. We often use conditionals (if sentences) in this situation: If every household offers him three sugar cookies and one 8-ounce glass of whole milk, that’s 720 million cookies and enough milk to fill 23 Olympic swimming pools total. There are other phrases that we can use when we ask people to imagine something. Underline these phrases in the sentences below: 1. Now, let’s say each household has, on average, two and a half kids. 2. Since we don’t know exactly how fast a reindeer can fly, let’s assume they can manage those incredible speeds. We also use the word even to explain the results of an unlikely imaginary situation: Since we don’t know exactly how fast a reindeer can fly, let’s assume they can manage those incredible speeds. Even then, the load they have to lug is much too heavy for them. Meanwhile, the average reindeer can pull up to twice their weight, or about 225 kilograms. So those deer aren’t going anywhere. And even if they could, well, it wouldn’t be pretty. For starters, the team would create a massive sonic boom as they hurtle through the air.... But it gets worse.... the reindeer would heat to blistering temperatures In these examples, even then / even if means that two opposite conditions lead to the same result. This is surprising! Conditions: Reindeer fly quickly/slowly. Result: They can’t pull the heavy load. Conditions: Reindeer can pull a heavy/ light load. Result: There will be negative effects like a sonic boom and high temperatures. Finish these sentences with your own ideas: If every household in the world bought a Christmas tree,... would... Let’s say there’s snow this Christmas. Even then... Let’s assume... Even if this happens,... FOOOOTERLEFT Learn without forgetting! 6/6 Scan the QR at the top of Page 1 to review the lesson flashcards with Expemo. © Linguahouse.com. Photocopiable and licensed for use in Tamara Kapraljević's lessons.