Pioneer of rocket engineering

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1. You are taking part in the TV show How to Become a Millionaire? Choose the correct answer. Be careful with the proper names. Good luck!

1.The International Aviation Saloon MAKS annually takes place in:

a. Tsiolkovsky	c. Baikonur
b. Zhukovsky	d. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

2. The theory of flight was invented by:

a. Daedalus and Icarus	c. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Brothers Wright	d. S.P. Korolyov

3. The first name and the patronymic of Korolyov are:

a. Sergey Petrovich	c. Sergey Pavlovich
b. Stepan Pavlovich	d. Stephan Pavlovich

4. Find the city not connected with the biography of Korolyov:

a. Moscow	c. Zhitomir
b. Kuibyshev	d. Vladimir

5. Korolyov S.P.was awarded with:

a. The Nobel Prize	c. The Pulitzerovs award
b. The honoured membership in Harvard	d. three Orders of Lenin

6. Korolyov S.P. was buried:

a. at his home town Zhitomir	c. his ashes are in the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics
b. at Baikonur	d. at the Red Square near the Kremlin Wall

Read the following International words and try to guess their meaning. Discuss them with your partner. Check the pronunciation of these words in the dictionary.

System, sphere, cosmic, academician, aeromechanical, group, hero, prize, bureau, enthusiast, experimental, talent, rocket, organizer, ideas, spirit, satellite, industry, title.

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