Unit-1, Lesson-3
People or Institutions Making History
1. Answer the following questions. 3×5=15
(a) What do you know about the birth and parentage of Valentina Tereshkova? Describe in your own words.
(b) When did Valentina Tereshkova start her education? When did she leave school? Did she continue her education?
How?
(c) Valentina Tereshkova's interest in parachuting led to her selection as a cosmonaut. Do you agree with the statement?
Write two sentences in support of your answer.
(d) When did the Soviet Union decide to send a woman in space? How many women applied for the project and who was
selected?
(e) Space travellers have to undergo a series of tests before they are declared fit for travelling in the space. Can you write
down some of the important names of those tests?
Additional Questions
(a) When did Valentina Tereshkova begin the preparation for her own flight? What was the name of the spacecraft in
which Valentina travelled into the space?
(b) Tereshkova experienced some problems during her flight. What were they? Did they hamper her space travel? Write
down two sentences in support of your answer.
(c) What was Valentina Tereshkova's achievement Explain briefly. compared to American astronauts?
(d) Write down about the achievement of Valentina Tereshkova other than her space travel.
(e) When and to whom she expressed her desire to fly to Mars? What did she mean by "even if for a one-way trip"?
2. Based on your reading of the passage, make short notes in each of the boxes in the flow-chart showing the life
history of Valentina Tereshkova. (No. 1 has been done for you) 5
1.Born on
6 March
1937 in 2 3 4 5 6
central
Russia
3. Summarize the passage text. 10
