Punctuality 

is being on time and it is definitely (Dfinitly) not my strongest point.

What are my apologies ¿

I might be late because the traffic was bad, or I had extra things to do at the last
moment. 

And we know most appointments we make start late!

(H)onestly I have a resistance to being on time, as if I am fighting against or are

opposed to being on time.

I usually say that I don’t like waiting but I think it goes beyond.

If I arrive too soon I feel awkward – that’s uncomfortable or nervous, waiting for others
to arrive.

So I might be a time bender – someone who doesn’t allow enough time to get
somewhere – but, of course, I always think I will have enough time!
Some people’s problem is about deadlines – that is a fixed time when something must
be completed by. That type of person said: If a deadline really matters, I’ll make it, but
for less important things, it’s not worth getting too stressed.

Other people doesn’t like to be late – they think it’s rude. 

These people are timekeeping – that’s their ability to do things on time.

According to experts on the Woman’s Hour programme, you shouldn’t ‘try’ to be on

time, you should ‘decide’ to be on time.

Clocks generally tend to delay,

In 2011, Researchers said that an atomic clock at the UK's National Physical
Laboratory would have the best long-term accuracy of any in the world. It would take
approximately 138 millions years for it to lose or gain a second.

Vocabulary 
punctuality
the fact of doing something at an agreed time and being on time
timekeeping
ability to achieve things on time

time benders
people who are always late because they don’t allow enough time to be
somewhere
chronométrage

Capacité à réaliser les choses à temps

Cintres temporels

les gens qui sont toujours en retard parce qu’ils ne laissent pas assez de temps pour être
quelque part

resistance
being against something

deadlines
fixed times when things must be completed by

consipcious
easily noticed

awkward
uncomfortable or nervous

as you’re here on time, you’re not going to miss our quiz question!
I would like to tell you about my half-sister named Valerie. She is my mother’s fisrst
daughter and lives in France near Marseille. She is 9 years older tan me. Either of us
have 3 daughters

(She has 3 daughters like me, and) she is a grandmother 8 times.

Her birthday is on August 5th and I always call her to celebrate it. And she calls me for
mine in March.

On tthe other hand, the rest of the year, we prefer to send each other messages.

Neither of us like travel a lot and it is expensive, so we saw each other 2 times in 8
years.

But my next vacation will surely be to go see my sister.

I love her very much because she si very very kind and generous. She is a hard-
working person and she is an example to me. I miss her every day.
They’ll be discussing our closest neighbour in the solar system – the planet Mars.

Often called the ‘Red Planet’, Mars has been in the news a lot with three separate

missions being sent to explore the planet’s surface in 2021.

One of the distinctive things about Mars is that it’s red so you can see it and
identify it. It looks red because of rust, - a reddish chemical substance called
iron oxide that occurs when metals react with water and air. The colour of this
rust can change slightly, from red to brown to orange, Unlike ancient
civilisations, modern astronomers have sent satellites to land on Mars and
explore its surface. And although no human has set foot on the Red Planet so
far, we know a lot about conditions there.

So  is there life on Mars? It depends on finding water. Water is life,

Although life is amazingly adaptable – able to change in order to survive in new

situations.

Scientists think that finding liquid water could make the Red Planet habitable -
good enough to live on.

And with billionaire businessmen like Elon Musk planning manned missions to
space, who knows how long it could be before we see a human on Mars?

Vocabulary

astronomer
scientist who studies the universe and the stars, planets, moons and suns
existing within it

distinctive
easy to recognise because it’s different from everything else

rust
reddish chemical substance called iron oxide that occurs when metals react
with water and air

immutable
never changing

adaptable
able to change in order to deal with new situations

habitable
good enough to live in 
An impossible place to visit would be space.

I know I will never go to the moon or Mars because

not many people have been in space.

Nevertheless it must be a great feeling to feel

floating, to no longer feel gravity, to be able to
spin in the air or upside down.

'Outer space' begins about 100 km above the Earth,

where the shell of air around our planet disappears.

Visiting other uninhabited planets or other solar

systems must be exciting but above all scary. One
must feel alone and intimidated of course.

Every direction you looked in space you would be

looking at a star.

There are currently people who live in the

International Space Station all day, every day.
But what if we age more slowly during long-term
space travel than we would have on Earth.
I think in 1000 or 2000 years there will be a lot of
changes, a lot of space travel, surely an
improvement in the level of journeys maybe
improvements in the level of adaptation to vacuum
and life in the space.
What is certain is that we will have to be very far
away the day our Sun explodes.

Notes:

In space, no one can hear you scream. This is

because there is no air in space – it is a vacuum.
Sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum.
In space, flames behave in ways nobody thought
possible.

To explore orbit and beyond.