Word power. Brainstorming 1. Are you interested in making discoveries in space? 2. What achievements have humans made so far in space exploration? 3.

Word powerWord power

Brainstorming

1. Are you interested in making

discoveries in space?

2. What achievements have humans

made so far in space exploration?

3. What can you think of when we

talk about space?

Read the first part of the speech and

complete the time line of the main

events mentioned.

the first man-made satellite went around the Earth

spaceships have been sent up into space

the first person travelled in space

examine important planets in the solar system, take photos and sent back

In 1957 Since1959 By 1961

Today

By 1969

the first person landed on the Moon

the process of space exploration

The first man-made satellite went

around the Earth in 1957.

The first person travelled in space in 1961.

Today, most of the important planets in

the solar system have been examined.

spaceship: a vehicle for carrying people

through space

Words explanationWords explanation

space shuttle: a vehicle that is designed

to carry people into space and back to

the Earth several times to do experiments

space shuttle

rocket

spacesuit: suit covering the whole body

and supplied with air

spacewalk: act or time of moving about

in space outside a spacecraft

spaceship

space shuttle

launch

A vehicle that is designed to carry people into space and back to the Earth several times to do experiment.

A vehicle for carrying people through space.

To send something into space or into the sky.

Match the definitions with the right words

Look at the pictures and try to answer

the following questions:

1. How can a space shuttle be sent into

space?

2. Can it fly into space by itself?

At 6 p.m.

October 1, 2010

What’s this?

A launch tower.

launch pad

a platform from which a space shuttle is sent into space.

launch pad

Launchtower

What lifts the space shuttle into space?

Two rockets.

astronauts

space station

space walk

spacesuit

Fall into the sea and a ship will pick them up.

tracking ship

What happens to the two rockets after they separate from the space shuttle?

Practice C

1 astronaut

2 outer space

3 space shuttle

4 rockets

5 tracking ship 6 space station

7 spacewalk 8 spacesuits

The universe

The galaxy

The solar system

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star ( 恒星 )

planet ( 行星 )

satellite ( 卫星 )

• 能自己发光发热的是恒星 • 围绕恒星运行的是行星 • 围绕行星的是卫星 • 恒星是像太阳那样不动的星体（太

阳） • 行星是绕着恒星转的星体。（地球 or

金木水火土星） • 卫星是绕着行星转的星体。（月亮）

Answers of Part D

the Sun the Milky Way

the Moon the Earth5

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Homework

1. Try to remember these new words

about space and space exploration.

2. Do the exercises in the workbook.

Language Points

1. dream of doing… 渴望做……2. carry out a plan / an order

实施计划 / 执行命令3. Two rockets supported by a launch towe

r lifted it into space.

…which are supported by…

4. separate from 分开，区别5. in outer space 在外太空6. protect them from/ against 保护，防卫7. provide sth for sb/ provide sb with sth

为某人提供某物

Read his speech and fill in the blanks.

On 27 September 2008, the Chinese astron

aut Zhai Zhigang took a walk in space. I g

uess some of you are dreaming of an _____

____ and travelling to _________

to carry out scientific research. I once wen

t to space. I travelled by ___________,

astronaut out space

space shuttle

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. tracking ship

rockets

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.

spacewalk

spacesuits

space station