DEBATE CLUB: jeudi 10 mars 2022 - Is Space Exploration Relevant Today?

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.... Why do we explore the heavens? Come to tonight’s Debate Club and talk about this!

VENEZ NOUS REJOINDRE POUR PARLER DE CE THÈME ! 

C'est l'occasion rêvée pour pratiquer votre anglais dans une ambiance détendue. Animées par des professeurs qualifiés de langue maternelle anglaise, les séances de conversation du Debate Club sont conviviales, engageantes et efficaces !

DATE / LEVELS

• Thursday, March 10th, 2022
• Faux Début. to Pre Int II

TIME / VENUE

• From 19h00 to 20h30
• Aix and Marseille

TEACHERS

• Sophie Bussenius (Aix)
• Lucia Forde (Marseille)

QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE

Why spend vast sums of money on space exploration where most people will never go?
Does space exploration have any more practical benefits?
Is the exploration of space a process for innovation? How so? Think of water, oxygen, food....
Does studying space help us to understand our own world? If so, how?
Why are film makers and authors so obsessed with space exploration?
Did you want to be an astronaut when you were a child?
Have you ever star-gazed?
If you were given the opportunity, would you go into space?
What would you spend the money for space exploration on, if you could choose?
Are we alone?

VOCABULARY

alloys
asteroid
black hole
colonise
cosmos
dark energy
dark matter
evolution
extra-terrestrial
fluid dynamics
gravity
inner
ISS (International Space Station)
launch
light-years
long duration missions
magnetosphere
metals
meteorite
orbit
outer
planetary outposts
recycled wastewater
science fiction
scientific theories
solar system
space craft
venture
weightlessness

SEARCH THE WEB FOR IDEAS!

Find articles and/or videos on the web and come prepared to share the information you have found with the others.

SUGGESTED SEARCH WORDS FOR THIS SUBJECT

SUGGESTED WEBSITES FOR MATERIALS

https://www.bbc.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/?gl=GB
www.guardian.co.uk
www.independent.co.uk
www.nytimes.com
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en
https://www.planetary.org/
https://www.nasa.gov/

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