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Before Time and Space - The Big Bang
Video page https://multimedia-english.com/videos/esl/before-time-and-space-the-big-bang-3355
Focus Listening
Description A multiple choice exercise about a documentary of National Geographic about the Big Bang.
Instructions Choose the option that best answers or completes the question or sentence.
 
According to the video, how could you best describe the universe?
A- static
B- peaceful
C- dangerous
D- scary
The documentary says that the Big Bang was a "colossal explosion". What does "colossal" mean?
A- enormous
B- very powerful
C- extremely noisy
D- really strange and unexplainable
In the beginning, the universe was more or less the size of...
A- a golf ball
B- an atom
C- a proton
D- the head of a pin
How old is the universe according to the video?
A- almost 14 million years
B- 13.7 billion years more or less
C- it's eternal
D- we don't really know
How long took the universe to expand from a very very small point to a huge space much much bigger than our planet?
A- many billions of years
B- many billions of seconds
C- just 3 million seconds
D- an instant, almost no time at all
How did the Big Bang sound?
A- like a colossal explosion
B- like all the matter breaking
C- it was silent
D- similar to a blast of cream
The video says that in the movies the Big Bang is represented as...
A- a noisy explosion
B- a bullet shot
C- something silly
D- one never sees the Big Bang in a film
What was the state of the universe right before the Big Bang happened?
A- it was empty
B- it was dense
C- it was very small
D- it was non existent
The explosion of the Big Bang was the beginning of...
A- time and space
B- space
C- the stars
D- galaxies
So, in conclusion, what was there before the Big Bang?
A- We can never know
B- Just a very little ball of energy
C- This question has no meaning
D- God waiting
Total number of items: 10
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