What's up in the night sky: October 2025 Intermediate shadowing lesson
This is NASA/JPL-Caltech's What's Up video for October 2025, a guide to what you can see in the night sky that month. It covers the supermoon on the evening of October 6th, the Draconid meteor shower and the Orionid meteors. The narration is clear and full of useful sky words, which suits intermediate shadowing.
- Intermediate
- Video
- 3:18
- 26 sentences
Practise it in the app
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The sentences
What's Up for October?
A supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors sparkle across the night sky.
The evening of October 6th, look up and be amazed as the full Moon is bigger and brighter because - it's a supermoon!
The video has 26 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- supermoon
- a full Moon that looks bigger and brighter because it is closer to Earth
- takes over
- becomes the main thing
- meteor shower
- many shooting stars over a few nights
- peeks through
- can be seen a little, now and then
- sparkle
- shine with small flashes of light
- look up
- turn your eyes to the sky
- full Moon
- the Moon when it looks like a complete circle
- brighter
- giving more light
How to practise this clip
Listen for the rhythm of the three-part list in the second sentence, each part with its own action word: takes over, peeks through, sparkle.
- Listen to a sentence before you read it.
- Say it right after, at the speaker's pace, with the same pauses.
- After the first round, hide the text and practise from the sound alone.
Source
NASA/JPL-Caltech, What's Up, on YouTube