The week’s B1 crossword — 5–11 October 2026
Weekly crossword — 5–11 October 2026
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Warm-up
- Which new word from this week do you remember best?
- Which word was the hardest to understand when you first met it?
- Can you use three of this week’s words in one sentence?
Vocabulary
- conservation
- work to protect nature and wildlife
- astronomer
- a scientist who studies space, stars and galaxies
- population
- the total number of animals or people in one place
- telescope
- a device used to make distant objects in space look closer
- estimate
- a number that is close to the real amount, not exact
- invasive
- describing a species that enters and harms a local ecosystem
- magnetar
- a kind of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field
- distant
- very far away in space or time
- drought
- a long period with little or no rain
- reserve
- a protected area where nature is kept safe
- detect
- to find or notice something using special equipment
- matter
- anything that has mass, including unseen material in space
- survey
- a study that collects information by counting or asking questions
- galaxy
- a very large group of stars, gas and dust in space
Reading
This crossword revises the vocabulary from this week’s B1 lessons. The words all come from: Aldabra giant tortoise numbers hit record; Record-breaking fast radio burst found. Every answer appeared in one of those lessons, and the number after each clue is the length of the answer.
Crossword
Week of 5–11 October 2026
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Discussion
- Which of this week’s stories would you most like to read more about?
- Which new word will you actually use outside class, and when?
- If you wrote next week’s crossword, which five words would you choose?
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