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Record breakers
Reward Pre-intermediate
Resource Pack
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Facts and figures
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The Moon takes just over
27
days to travel around the Earth. The
same half of the Moon always faces the Earth. Nobody had seen the
far side of the Moon until the
USSR
spacecraft Luna
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took the first
photographs of it in
1959.
Concorde takes 3 hours to fly from London to
New York, a distance of 5,536
km (3,500 miles).
It travels at 2,333
kmlh (1,500 mph) which is
faster than the speed of sound. This is twice as
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fast as an ordinary passenger plane.
Urumqi, capital of the Uighur Autonomous
region of China, is the furthest city from
the sea.
It
is about 2.250
krn
(1.400 miles)
from the nearest coast.
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The most expensive hotel in the world is the Hotel Nova
Park in Paris, France. One night in the Royale Suite
costs
£3.525.
This is more than
a
lot of people earn in
a
year!
The Boeing 747 (Jumbo jet) is the largest and
most powerful plane in the world. It can carry up
to 500 passengers. It is as high as a 6-storey office
block and weighs over 370 tonnes. It has a
maximum speed of 969
km/h (602 mph).
Light from the Sun takes eleven hours to
reach Pluto, the furthest planet in our
Solar system. It travels a distance of
150
*
million km
(93
million miles) to reach
the Earth and it takes eight minutes.
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The fastest land animal in the world is the cheetah. On the plains of
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east Africa. Iran. Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. it has a maximum
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speed of about 96 km/h (60 mph).
The Earth is the third nearest planet to the Sun. It
has one natural satellite orbiting it, the Moon,
which is 384,365 km (238,840 miles) from the Earth.
The Moon
is
a quarter the size of the Earth.
The Orient Express used to
run
between Paris
and Istanbul but now It makes a
sholter trlp
from London to
Venlce. It offers the highest
luxury in travel. A one-way ticket costs
~475,
which is also the price of a slngle alrfare to
Sydney, Australia, a city
whlch Is
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tlmes
fulther away from London than Venice.
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