1. Module 2 Unit 1
Word Power
Space Exploration

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

3. 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.

4. The Extra-terrestrial

5. 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 .

6. Stephen William Hawking

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. Yang Liwei

12. Word Power
Space exploration

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

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

17. 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

18. Vocabulary extension
—space exploration

19. launch tower
rocket
launch pad

20. space shuttle

21. astronaut

22. space station

23. space
suit
spacewalk

24. tracking ship

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

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

27. 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

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

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

30. 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

31. Pluto
Uranus
Neptune
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Earth
Jupiter
Mars

32. 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

33. Thank you!
Goodbye!