Unit 10. Life on other planets

Week: 33
Period: 65
Monday, April 15th, 2009
Lesson2: Speak – Listen
Unit 10:
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
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Which planet is the nearest to the sun?
Which is the biggest?
Which is the hottest?
a) Vocabulary:
microorganism (n)
Vi sinh v?t
gemstone (n)
Dá quí
sparkling (a)
Lấp lánh
creature (n)
Sinh vật
trace (n)
Dấu vết
mineral (n)
Khoáng sản
b) Model sentences:
There might be water on Mars.
This may be gas on Mars.
Form:
May
Might
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V. infinitive
Use:
- We use may / might to talk about present or future possibility.
- Might is normally a little less sure than may
Set the scene: A space tourist traveled to Mars,
he saw many things there and noted them down.
These are drawings of things. Try to guess and
match the drawings with their names.
minerals
microorganism
plants
gemstones
little creatures
water
mountains
gas
minerals
microorganism
plants
gemstones
little creatures
water
mountains
gas
a) What’s this?
This may be …………………….on Mars.
b) What are they?
They might be …………………..on Mars.
gas
water
minerals
plants
mountains
little creatures
a) Making dialogue:
Your friend:
There may be mountains on Mars.
You :
What do these drawings say?
Your friend:
Well, they may be gas on Mars.
You :
And what about the red signs
on the left corner?
b) Discussion:
What may there be on Mercury / on the moon?
2. Listen:
a) Vocabulary:
expert (n)
Chuyên gia
crater (n)
Hố, miệng núi lửa
one-sixth
Một phần sáu
two-fifth
Hai phần năm
Set the scene: you will listen to the description of the moon.
But before listening, you should read these statements
and guess which is correct and which is incorrect.
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Questions:
a) Why are there no sound on the moon?
b) How many creature are there on the moon?
c) How much will you weigh on the moon if you weigh
50 kilos on the earth?
c) Will you sleep very well on the moon? why/? Why not?
Because there is no air on the moon.
There are about 30,000 creatures on the moon.
If I weigh 50 kilos, I’ll weigh only a little more than kilos.
No, we won’t. Because one day lasts for two weeks
on the moon.
Tape transcript:
Good evening. Welcome to our Science For Fun Program. This week, we’ve
received a lot of questions asking about life on the moon.
We’ve talked to some experts and this is what we’ve found out. There is no
Water or air on the moon. It is all silent because there is no air. Of course,
there will be no music, no sounds. There are no rivers and no lakes. At night,
it is very cold. The temperature goes down 1510 C below zero. But during
the day the temperature rises to 1000 C above zero.
There are great round holes on the moon. They look like big lakes. They are
called craters. There are more then 30,000 craters on the moon. There are
also high mountains. The highest mountains on the moon are about 26,000 feet
or 8,000 meters high.
And here is something very interesting to know: on the moon you weigh
one sixth of what you weigh on earth. If you weigh 50 kilos, on the moon
you will weigh only a little more than 8 kilos. You will be able to jump very high,
even higher than an Olympic Champion. You can take very long steps as well.
And … may be you want won’t sleep very well because one day on the moon
lasts for 2 weeks.
So, is there life on the moon? I’ll leave the questions for you to answer yourself.
HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart new words.
Write the answers in your notebooks.
Prepare Read.