Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 - What does it feel like? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. There's a train.
  2. It was covered in vegetation and hidden. Now you can see it as soon as you arrive.
  3. Aircraft were not sophisticated - difficult to fly, physically and mentally - lots of calculations to do, how to control the crash landing.
  4. How would it work out? Would he be able to control the plane when it landed?
  5. Positive → thrill / excitement, awe of what he's experiencing, seeing Earth from space and being the first person to see that. Negative → didn't know if he would get back home, alone and probably quite scared.