The Reading / Listening - Google Earth - Level 0

Google's flight simulator is now available to everyone. It was first released for desktops in 2007, but people had to download it. Now, it is browser based. There is no need to install anything. You will be able to fly anywhere using Google's maps. People may have problems "flying near ground level in regions below sea level".

To use the flight simulator, you open Google Earth and click on "Explore Earth". You then type where you want to fly to in the search bar, click on "Tools, "and select "Flight simulator" from the drop-down menu. CNET.com said people can "fly to almost anywhere on Earth and check out various landmarks".

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Google Earth - Level 1 Google Earth - Level 2   or  Google Earth - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/google-earths-flight-simulator-is-now-on-browsers-heres-how-to-play/
  • https://www.theverge.com/tech/949749/google-earth-flight-simulator-browser-experimental
  • https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/earth/flight-simulator


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. It was first released for
  2. people had to download
  3. it is browser
  4. There is no need to
  5. You will be able to fly
  6. People may have
  7. flying near
  8. in regions below sea
  1. problems
  2. based
  3. level
  4. it
  5. ground level
  6. install anything
  7. anywhere
  8. desktops

Paragraph 2

  1. To use the flight
  2. open Google
  3. type where you want
  4. in the search
  5. click on
  6. the drop-
  7. fly to almost
  8. check out various
  1. "Tools"
  2. to fly to
  3. landmarks
  4. simulator
  5. anywhere on Earth
  6. Earth
  7. bar
  8. down menu

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Google's flight simulator is (1) _________________________________________________ everyone. It was (2) _________________________________________________ desktops in 2007, but (3) _________________________________________________ download it. Now, it is browser based. There is (4) _________________________________________________ install anything. You will be (5) _________________________________________________ using Google's maps. People may have problems "flying near ground level (6) _________________________________________________ sea level".

(7) _________________________________________________ flight simulator, you open Google Earth (8) _________________________________________________ "Explore Earth". You then type where you want (9) _________________________________________________ in the search bar, click on (10) _________________________________________________ "Flight simulator" from the (11) _________________________________________________. CNET.com said people can "fly to almost anywhere on Earth (12) _________________________________________________ various landmarks".

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Google'sflightsimulatorisnowavailabletoeveryone.Itwasfirstrelease
dfordesktopsin2007,butpeoplehadtodownloadit.Now,itisbrowserba
sed.Thereisnoneedtoinstallanything.Youwillbeabletoflyanywhereus
ingGoogle'smaps.Peoplemayhaveproblems"flyingneargroundleveli
nregionsbelowsealevel".Tousetheflightsimulator,youopenGoogleEa
rthandclickon"ExploreEarth".Youthentypewhereyouwanttoflytointh
esearchbar,clickon"Tools,"andselect"Flightsimulator"fromthedrop-
downmenu.CNET.comsaidpeoplecan"flytoalmostanywhereonEarth
andcheckoutvariouslandmarks".

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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