Unit 1 Has it arrived yet? 3 月 12 日 英语教研组 1 李红

Earth Mars Moon

outer space

What is outer space like? Has anyone been to outer space? What’s in outer space? Now let’s have a look!

Our Galaxy ---The Milky Way ( 银河 ) There are more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy ( 星系 ), and the Sun is only one of them.

Other Galaxies There are other galaxies in the universe. The stars we see at night are the suns in other solar systems.

the solar system

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

小行星带 Asteroid belt 彗星 Comets 陨石 Meteorites

How can we go to outer space? By spacecraft.

space shuttle

astronaut

space station

Has man discovered life on the moon?

Apollo Moon landing

Moon exploration Chang’e I

Moon exploration Chang’e II

Has man discovered life on Mars?

Yinghuo-1( 萤火一号 )

Yinghuo-1 was a Chinese Mars-exploration space probe, intended to be the first Chinese spacecraft to explore Mars. It was launched on 8 November Owing to burns did not take place, leaving both probes stranded in orbit. On 17 November, Chinese State media formally declared the Yinghuo-1 probe lost. Yinghuo-1 underwent destructive re-entry on 15 January 2012, finally disintegrating over the Pacific Ocean.

Mars is considered to be the planet that could be suitable for people to stay. Diameter( 直径 ) 6,794 kilometers Quality( 质量 ) e23 kilograms Good news: Some scientists have already sent a spacecraft to Mars.

1.Astronauts take the ____________ to get to the _____________. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words and phrases in the box. space shuttle space station borrow discover life model recently space station space shuttle

2. They haven’t ___________ any ______on Mars yet. 3. The ________ of the space station isn’t Daming’s, and he only wants to ________ it. 4. Astronauts haven’t been to the moon ________. The last time was over 30 years ago. discovered life model borrow recently borrow discover life model recently space station space shuttle

Listen and number the words as you hear them. earthlandmessage moonnewsplanet reachscientist

Read and answer the questions. 1. What school project have Daming and Tony got? 2. How does Daming feel about the school project? Spaceship. He is not sure how to make the model.

3. What news has Tony heard? 4. Has anyone been to Mars? Why? Spaceship to Mars has reached there. No, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon.

Tony and Daming meet each other. Tony has just made a ______ of the spaceship. Daming thinks it’s great, but he hasn’t _______ his yet. They then talk about the latest news. Some _________ have sent a spaceship to Mars. It has taken several months to get there. Read the conversation and complete the passage. Then, act out the conversation with your partners. model started scientists

They haven’t __________ life on Mars yet. No one has been to Mars yet, but ____________ have already been to the moon. Mars is very _____ _____. Lots of ________ are __________ in order to send astronauts to Mars one day. discovered astronauts working far away scientists

Listen and underline the words the speaker stresses. 1. I’ve just made a model spaceship for our school project. 2. I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it. 3. Has it arrived yet? 4. Astronauts have already been to the moon.

Find out the present perfect sentences to tell what they have done, and what they haven’t done. 1. I’ve just made a model spaceship I haven’t started it yet. 3. Have you heard the latest news? 4. Scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars. 5. The journey has taken several months.

6. It has arrived already? So have they discovered life on Mars? --- No, they haven’t yet. 8. Astronauts have already been to the moon. 9. But no one has been to Mars yet.

Now think about this space travel. What have we done? What haven’t we done? We have already sent a spaceship to Mars. We have just … We have … Let’s write more sentences and see who has the longest list! We haven’t found life on the moon yet. We haven’t … We haven’t …

Make a list of what we have and have not done in space travel. We have …We haven’t … sent a spaceship to Marsdiscovered life on Mars been to the moon sent an astronaut to Mars

Work in pairs. Talk about space travel with the lists of what we have and have not done. 2. Don’t panic! 不要惊慌 ! --- Have we sent a spaceship to Mars? --- Yes, we have. But …

From the above list, we see that there is a lot of knowledge for you to explore about the outer space. Think about what you are going to do to the space when you grow up. You may work in groups, make a dialogue or write a short passage. Make a dialogue.

Tell your partner about … something you’ve borrowed this week. something you’ve done recently. a model of something you have seen. something scientists have discovered. Work in pairs.

1 、 Read and act out the dialogue in pairs. 2 、 Do WB P120 EX 、 Collect some information about life on other planets and knowledge of universe. Homework