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Question
Close your eyes. Imagine that your class is a spaceship. Zooo...m – in 10 minutes you have entered space. Your spaceship is now going around the earth. Now say:
- Are you able to sit in one place?
- What about your hair?
- Oh, look … where are your bags and books going?
- what is your teacher doing? Where is her chalk?
- How did you eat your food during the break? How did you drink water? What happened to the ball that you threw up?
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Solution
- No, we are unable to sit in one place. Everyone is floating in the air.
- My hair is standing up.
- My bags and books are also floating in the air.
- My teacher is also floating in the air and she is trying to catch the floating chalk.
- We had to grab the puri, flying in the air. The water floated in the form of blobs and we had to suck them. The ball I threw up started floating in the air.
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