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    The document discusses the history of space exploration and travel from the Space Race of the 1960s to present day commercial space flight. It also provides a reading comprehension task identifying sentences to paragraphs and a writing task to comment on the necessity of speaking multiple languages by stating an opinion, giving reasons, addressing alternative views, and drawing a conclusion.

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    The document discusses the history of space exploration and travel from the Space Race of the 1960s to present day commercial space flight. It also provides a reading comprehension task identifying sentences to paragraphs and a writing task to comment on the necessity of speaking multiple languages by stating an opinion, giving reasons, addressing alternative views, and drawing a conclusion.

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    SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

    FOR THE CROSS CURRICULAR UNIT


    « INDEPENDENT PROJECT »

    Learning objectives 10.5.7 Use independently appropriate layout at text level on a range of general
    and curricular topics
    10.4.2 understand specific information and detail in extended texts on a range of
    familiar general and curricular topics, and some unfamiliar topics
    10.4.5 deduce meaning from context in extended texts on a wide range of familiar
    general and curricular topics, and some unfamiliar topics

    Assessment criteria Write a text keeping the layout and format of a given genre
    Identify specific information and details in a text

    Level of thinking skills Application


    Higher order thinking skills

    Duration 20 minutes

    READING
    Task 1. Read the text. Put the sentences A-E into spaces 1-5.

    A travel into space was


    B landed human beings on the moon
    C became the first pay-to-fly space
    D a new sense of reality set
    E in his footsteps

    Driven to prove their superiority during the Cold War, as well as to gain a strategic advantage, the
    U.S.A. and the Soviet Union began the “Space Race” during the 1960s. In an astonishingly short time period,
    the U.S. Apollo program 1_______ and the Soviet Salyut program kept them in orbit for months at a time.
    Probes began to explore the solar system. Space seemed very close, at one point, tickets to the moon and to as-
    yet-nonexistent space stations were being sold.
    After the Space Race ended, 2 _______ in. The wild dreams of the 1960s and 70s died, and humanity
    turned its attention earthward again. Space travel beyond Earth’s orbit became the exclusive domain of
    mankind’s robotic explorers, and high-profile tragedies both reaching and returning from orbit provided
    sobering reminders of the risks of space travel. By the end of the 20th century, 3_____ still exclusively the
    domain of governmental organizations.
    However, necessity changed the situation with the dawn of the 21st century. Desperate for funds, the
    Russian Space Agency began to sell seats on Soyuz launches. Businessman Dennis Tito 4_____ tourist in April
    2001, and since then a handful have followed 5_________, some of them even on more than one flight.

    WRITING
    Task 2. Write an article according to the plan
    Comment on the following statement.
    Some people argue that in the modern world it is necessary to be able to speak at least two foreign languages.
    Others say that it is better to know one foreign language very well than to have poor command of two foreign
    languages.
    What is your opinion?

    Use the following plan:


    - make an introduction (state the problem)
    - express your opinion and give reasons for it
    - give arguments for the other point of view
    - explain why you don`t agree with it
    - draw a conclusion
    Task Descriptor
    Assessment criteria Mark
    № A learner
    Identify specific information 1.-B 1
    and details in a text 2.-D 1
    3.-A 1
    4.-C 1
    5.-E 1
    Write a text keeping the clearly conveys own opinion; supports opinion 1
    layout and format of a with arguments;
    includes reasons and/or examples; 1
    given genre uses connectors to link paragraphs logically;
    uses topic-related vocabulary accurately; 1
    uses future active and passiveforms 1
    Total marks 10

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