1. Moon travel.
Think about these questions.
• Do you think moon travel of this type is a real possibility?
I think it’s possible only for people who have a lot of money
• Would you go? What do you think you would enjoy and learn from the experience?
No, I don’t wouldn’t. I don’t trust the spacecraft.
• Do you think space travel in general is useful? What do you think we can learn from travelling in outer space?
I don’t think it’s useful, because there isn’t live out of the Earth. It’s a waste of money.
The things we can learn are: the gravity low, we can see that there’s no live possible on other place, so we should take care of the Earth...
• Do you think the money spent on space travel should be used for other things here on Earth?
Yes, this money should be used for more important things:
- To increase the wages.
- To improve the public health.
- To increase the familiar subsidies.
2. Do you know any expressions in your own language about the Moon?
To be miles away (Estar en la Luna): to be absent-minded
To ask the Moon (Pedir la Luna): to ask impossible things.
To be in a bad Moon (Esta de mala Lluna): to be in a bad mood.
3. Moon stories
The Moon rabbit, also called the Jade Rabbit, is a rabbit that lives on the moon in East Asian folklore. The legends about the moon rabbit are based on the traditional pareidolia that identifies the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding in a mortar. In Chinese folklore, it is often portrayed as a companion of the moon goddess Chang'e, constantly pounding the elixir of life for her; but in Japanese and Korean versions it is just pounding mochi.
The earliest records suggesting that there is a rabbit on the moon appears in the Warring States period in ancient China. The Chu Ci, a Western Han anthology of Chinese poems from the Warring States period, notes that along with a toad, there is a rabbit on the moon who constantly pounds herbs for the immortals. This notion is supported by later texts, including the Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era encyclopedia of the Song Dynasty. Han Dynasty poets call the rabbit on the moon the Jade Rabbit or the Gold Rabbit (金兔), so in the days of old people also use the words "Jade Rabbit" and "Gold Rabbit" to refer to the moon.