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The secret of the stars
Textbook Part 2, pp. 12–14
GoalLearn interesting facts about stars; find a character’s words in a text.
New words
star · yulduzspace, universe · koinottelescope · teleskopball, sphere · shar
Explanation
Stars look tiny to us, but they are really huge balls of fire. Stars can be red, yellow, whitish or bluish. The Sun is the yellow star closest to Earth. Scientists watch the sky through a telescope. The textbook has the poem “Stars” by G‘ulom Shomurod.
Worked examples
“A starry night”. In the evening Dad and I watched the stars in the yard. The stars looked like little lamps. Dad said: “Actually they are huge balls of fire.” “The Sun is a star too; it is the star closest to us,” he added. I started counting the stars, but I couldn’t finish.
Did you know? The hottest stars are the whitish and bluish ones.
Class activity
“Constellation”: children put chalk-dot stars on black paper, join them with lines and give their own “constellation” a name.
Practice
1
Who did the child watch the stars with?
With Dad
2
What did the stars look like?
Little lamps
3
Which star is closest to us?
The Sun
4
Why couldn’t the child finish counting the stars?
There are too many stars.
5
How many times does Dad speak in the text?
2