DIVISION OF LESSONS:
1. Getting started – listen & read
2. Speak - Listen
3. Read
4. Write
5. Language focus
Unit 10:
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Week: 33
Period: 65
Monday, April 15th, 2009
Lesson1: Getting started – listen & read
Unit 10:
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Warm up:
a) How many planets involves around the sun?
b) How many stars are there in our galaxy?
There are nine: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
Pluto.
Over 250 billion.
spacecraft
spacecraft
spacecraft
spacecraft
2. Listen and read:
a) Vocabulary:
spacecraft (n)
Tàu vũ trụ
meteor (n)
Sao băng
evidence (n)
Bằng chứng
alien (n)
Người ở hành tinh khác
capture (v)
Bắt
device (n)
Dụng cụ, tiết bị
claim (v)
Đòi quyền, nhận là
evidence
meteor
aliens
collecting
captured
disappeared
An aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor can be mistaken
for an alien spacecraft.
b) In 1947, a pilot saw nine large round objects traveling at about
2,800 meters an hour.
c) There were over 1,500 UFO sightings worldwide in 1952.
d) In 1954, a woman and her children saw a UFO above their house.
e) A farmer saw an egg-shaped object in one of his fields and
also aliens collecting soil samples in 1964.
f) In 1971, two men claimed they were captured by aliens and
taken aboard a spacecraft.
g) A pilot and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO in 1978.
h) In 1981, a Frechman reported that he saw a plate-like device
at a tree top30 meters away from his garden.
UFO Sightings
Post – reading:
Do you believe in Kenneth Arnold, or the woman
who saw a UFO about her house?
b) Have you ever seen a picture of an alien?
c) Can you imagine what the aliens are like?
Are they small or big?
Are they intelligent?
Why do you think so?
HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart new words.
Read the test and answer the questions again.
Write the notes on page 84 in your notebooks.