(共23张PPT)
Word power
Unit 1
Space exploration
Who is she
A beauty named Chang’e
on the moon.
The story about Chang’e told us that we human beings had been dreaming of traveling to space for thousands of years!
What’s your feeling after you saw the successful launch of Shenzhou-Ⅶ manned spaceship
Read the first part of the speech on P6 and complete
the time line of the main events mentioned.
Time Event
1957
1959
1961
1969
The first man-made satellite went around the Earth.
Spaceships have been sent up into space.
Yuri Gagarin from Soviet Union
Was the fist person to travel in space.
American astronaut Neil Armstrong
landed on the Moon.
Let’s know more about space exploration!
launch tower.
launch pad
a platform from which a space shuttle is sent into space
two rockets
space shuttle
astronauts
space station
spacesuit
spacewalk
What happens to the two rockets after they separate from the space shuttle
tracking ship
They fall into the sea and a ship will pick them up.
spaceship
spacesuit
astronaut
spacewalk
space station
space shuttle
spaceship
a person who is trained to work in a spaceship
a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space
Action of moving about in space outside a spacecraft
Manned spaceship designed for repeated use, e.g. between Earth and a space station or the moon …
Vehicle manned or unmanned for traveling in space
Large manned artificial satellite used as a base for operations in space, e.g. for scientific research …
Word power
Go through Part C and fill in the blanks using words
from page 6.
Word extension
Look at the picture of the universe, and write the
correct number in boxes
on P7.
Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the given
words in the blankets in their correct forms.
On 6 May, 2001 at 1:42a.m., an American businessman Dennis Tito
landed 1.______ (safe) in Kazakhstan after a trip lasting 7 days,
22 hours and 4 minutes aboard the Russian spaceship Soyuz TM32.
Dennis was no ordinary astronaut though. He was the world’s first ever
space 2. ______ (tour)—he paid for his holiday in space! He had always
wanted to visit space ever since he was a teenager. He loved reading
about space travel. He knew all about the astronauts from the USA, and
the cosmonauts form Russia. He became even more 3. ______ (interest)
in visiting space during the space race between Russia and the United
States in the 1960s.
Dennis parents were both 4. ______ (Italy) immigrants, who came to the USA in the hope of 5. ______ (give) Dennis more 6. ______ (opportunity). They helped him believe that anything is possible if he worked hard enough. Dennis knew that he wanted to experience space travel one day, and he did everything he could to achieve his goal. He studied hard and became an 7. ______ (engine) for NASA when he was just 23 years old. He worked on many 8. ______ (succeed) missions into space, but was never an astronaut. After a few years, he became a 9. ______ (business). He was very successful and became a millionaire.
Despite his 10. ______ (succeed) and wealth, he never forget his dreams to fly to space and was very excited when he found that the Russian government was allowing civilians to fly to space- for a price. 11. ______ (luck), because of Dennis’s new-found wealth, he could afford to finally make his dream come 12. ______ (truth). He dropped his job and left California to follow his dream.
He moved to Russia, where he began serious 13. ________ (train) for his “space holiday”. He was 14. ______ (allow) to board a Russian rocket scheduled to deliver 15. ______ (supply) to the International Space Station. His training was very 16. ______ (challenge), but when he had finally completed it, he felt very confident that he was 17. ______ (true) ready to go into space. Before he left, he felt sad that his parents were not there to see that his once 18. ______ (possible) dream had actually come true, but is 19. ______ (thank) for the important lesson they taught him. On 28 April, his dream finally became a 20. ______ (real).
Skim the passage again, and write down the title with no more than 5 words.
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