Module 2 Unit 1 Word Power Space Exploration

Quiz Lead-in Guess the right answer according to the description as quickly as possible!

No. 1 Clue 1: It is a famous film directed by Steven Spielberg. Clue 2: It is about an alien who is left on the Earth by his partners. Clue 3: A boy named Elliot tries to help him contact his people and escape from the capture of the government. Clue 4: They become good friends and have a happy ending.

The Extra-terrestrial

No. 2 Clue 1: He is an expert in astrophysics (天体物理学), theoretical physics (理论物理学) and mathematics. Clue 2: He has got great achievements in black hole and quantum cosmology (量子宇宙论). Clue 3: He is a world-famous British physical scientist who is disabled .

Stephen William Hawking

Clue 3: He was the first man who landed on the moon. No. 3 Clue 1: He was once an astronaut of NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) Clue 2: He once carried out the task on Spaceship Apollo 11. Clue 3: He was the first man who landed on the moon.

That’s one small step for man and a giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong

No. 4 Clue 1: He was an astronaut as well as a national hero in China. Clue 2: He was the first man in China who went into the space in Shenzhou V manned spaceship.

Yang Liwei

Word Power Space exploration

Reading 1. Go through the speech given by a scientist in Part A and answer the following three questions:

What is the scientist telling us about? 2. Who was the first person travelling in space? 3. Have any living creatures been discovered so far? Something about outer space and space travel. Yuri Gagarin, an astronaut from the former Soviet Union. No, no evidence of life has been discovered on any of the planets so far.

2. The development of space exploration The first man-made satellite went around the Earth in 1957. Spaceships have been sent up into space since 1959. The first person travelled in space in 1961. American astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969. Today, scientific research still continues.

Words Study Try to identify the words and expressions in blue in the passage.

outer space space travel man-made satellite spaceships astronaut planets solar system a. the artificial satellite b. the area outside the earth c. person who travels in a spaceship d. the sun and the planets moving around it e. large round objects in space that move around a star, such as the sun f. space exploration g. vehicles for travelling in space

Vocabulary extension —space exploration

launch tower rocket launch pad

space shuttle

astronaut

space station

space suit spacewalk

tracking ship

spacewalk space shuttle astronaut tracking ship launch pad spacesuit space station launch tower rocket

Practice Read the scientist’s speech in Part C and fill in the blanks using words from page 6.

On 27 Sept 2008, the Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang took a walk in space. I guess some of you are dreaming of becoming an ________ and travelling to _________ to carry out scientific research. I once went to space. I travelled by ____________, a spaceship that looks like a plane. Two _______ supported by a launch tower lifted it into space. At a certain distance from the Earth, the rockets separated from the space shuttle and fell into the sea. Then a ____________ picked them up. I did research in a base in outer space called __________. Sometimes I went out of it to take a ___________. In outer space astronauts cannot take off their __________, which protect them and provide oxygen. outer space astronaut space shuttle rockets tracking ship space station space walk space suits

Vocabulary extension —Space What is our universe made up of?

universe 2. galaxy/The milky way 3. solar system 4. star 5. planet 6. satellite 7. comet

Keys to Part D: ④ the Sun ② the Milky Way ⑥ the Moon ⑤ the Earth Practice: write the correct number in each box (Part D). Keys to Part D: ④ the Sun ② the Milky Way ⑥ the Moon ⑤ the Earth

Pluto Uranus Neptune Mercury Venus Saturn Earth Jupiter Mars

Check your memory Mercury Venus Earth Mars Pluto Jupiter Saturn Uranus 水星 金星 地球 火星 Mercury Venus Earth Mars 冥王星 Pluto 天王星 海王星 木星 土星 Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

Thank you! Goodbye!