Word Focus

Match each word with an appropriate meaning. Then read the report below to
the great scientist on the planet Thaar, and use seven of the thirteen words to
completed the passage. (Use one in each gap)

communicate to send information, news, ideas, etc. to other people

dimension a measurement in space ( a piece of paper has two
dimensions; a box has three dimensions)
drunk confused in the mind after drinking too much alcohol
hallucination something which you think you see but which isnʼt
actually there
invent to make or think something that is completely new
light-year the distance that light travels in one year
mathematician someone who studies mathematics, the science of
numbers
planet Earth is one of the nine planets that move around our
sun
rocket a machine that drives a spaceship up into space
scientist someone who studies or works in one of the sciences
space the sky and everything beyond it, to the last star
telepathic being able to communicate directly from one mind to
another without speaking
tunnel an underground passage for a road or railway

´Your Highness, something very strange has happened! Earth is five hundred
_________ away, and it´s been difficult to ______ with anyone there. Finally, we
found a person called Bill who could receive our _________ messages. We told
him that the Earth´s sun is going to explode, and we can make a kind of ______
so that humans can take a short cut through the thirty-seven _________ to a new
____________ where they can live. Bill told us that he is a _______, and he knows a
lot about science. But he seems to think it would be a good thing if his planet
was destroyed´