Photography & colours · News English
Blue and yellow lights from space
Look at a night picture and describe its colours.
Your goal: practise there is and there are.
A picture at night
What are the blue lights?
1NASA shared a new picture on 30 September. It is a picture from space. It shows Earth at night. There are blue lights and yellow lights. There are stars above Earth too.
2The blue lights are on fishing boats. The yellow lights are in cities in Indonesia. The picture is from the International Space Station. The station was above the Banda Sea.
3The picture was taken on 20 September 2026. It is not a picture from today. The camera took the picture over a long time. The lights look like lines. NASA calls the lines from the stars star trails. Look at the colours. Can you find the blue lights?
Original teaching summary. Language examples and models are illustrative, not news quotations.
Word help · Three useful words
Read the meanings and examples. Choose one word to use in your own sentence.
light
something that helps you see
There is a light in my room.
boat
a vehicle that travels on water
I can see a small boat.
above
higher than something
The lamp is above the table.
Check your reading · Three questions
Choose one answer for every question, then check. You can change an answer and check again.
Useful English: there is and there are
Use there is for one thing: There is a boat. Use there are for two or more: There are two lights.
Look around your room. Name one thing, then two things.
Model and help
Model: There is a table. There are two books.
Alone: repeat without reading. Tutor: ask for one more example.
Speak: your ideas
Describe two things in the photograph. Say their colours. Speak for 20 seconds.
Labelled model answer
There are blue lights. There are yellow lights too.
This model is an illustrative learning example, not a news quotation.
Alone: record yourself or repeat once. Tutor: What colour is one thing in your room?
Mastery check · Three questions
Choose one answer for every question, then check. You can change an answer and check again.
Sources and reporting date
Original visible publication date: 30 September 2026. Exact time and source timezone are not exposed. Conservative earliest worldwide instant (UTC+14) is 29 September 10:00 UTC. This is an age bound, not an asserted timestamp. The entire possible interval is within seven days.
- NASA: Star Trails
Original visible publication date: 30 September 2026. Exact time and source timezone are not exposed. Conservative earliest worldwide instant (UTC+14) is 29 September 10:00 UTC. This is an age bound, not an asserted timestamp. The entire possible interval is within seven days.