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ENGLISH FOR THE ALIEN INVASION

By Robert Campbell & Lindsay Clandfield

Contents3 Introduction

4 How to use this book

6 UNIT 1 MAKE CONTACT

7 UNIT 2 CHECK SECURITY

8 UNIT 3 DESCRIBE THE SHIP

9 UNIT 4 DO NOT PANIC

10 UNIT 5 EXPLORE11 Alien invasion flash cards (1)

12 UNIT 6 CALL THE PRESIDENT

13 UNIT 7 CONTACT YOUR FAMILY

14 UNIT 8 MEET THE ALIEN LEADER

15 UNIT 9 TRY TO ESCAPE

16 UNIT 10 SAVE THE WORLD

17 Alien invasion flash cards (2)18 Answer key



INTRODUCTION

In recent years, as English has spread to all corners of the world,

there has been a proliferation of English for specific purposes.

There are now varieties of English taught for all manner of

situations, from legal and medical English to English for military

purposes and law enforcement. There is business English, English

for academic purposes, English for tourism, and the list goes on.

English is the world language, and it must meet the various and

complex needs of the world.

Until now, however, there has been a notable absence in the field

of the different varieties of English being taught—the kind of

essential English needed for emergency, life-threateningcircumstances, a basic English for a situation that requires people

to communicate in order to survive one of the most dramatic

events in human history.

An alien invasion

Humans have long wondered if we are alone in the universe. The

day we get a definite answer to that question might not be when

we discover alien life, but when it discovers us. The idea of an

alien invasion has been part of our collective conscious for

hundreds of years, but how prepared are you for when it

happens? Will you be able to communicate when the situation

calls for it?

This short guide is an essential phrase book for the kind of English

you might need to survive an alien invasion. You’ll find units to

help you initialize contact, describe the alien ship, call for

reinforcements, meet an alien leader, and escape from an alien

abduction. Our hope is that this manual will help us all be more

prepared to meet other life forms and coordinate a response.

THE AUTHORS

Robert Campbell has written graded readers about

extraterrestrials (Next Door , Helbling), time travel (The

Time Capsule, Helbling), and the supernatural (Owl Hall ,

Macmillan). Obsessed by the science-fiction genre from a very

early age, Robert has created many classroom activities related to

aliens and alien abduction for the magazine iT’s for Teachers.

Lindsay Clandfield has taught English to people who

claim to have been abducted by aliens in Mexico, Spain,

the UK, and Canada. Although he has never seen an

alien or alien ship before, he knows it’s probably just a question of

time. He also has over twenty years of experience fighting aliens

in various video games.

Lindsay and Robert are also the brains behind the first ebook in

the Extreme Language Teaching series: English for the Zombie

Apocalypse.



HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

This book is suitable for low-level (A1 or A2) English learners. Each

unit represents around forty-five minutes of class time.

This book is divided into ten units. Over the course of the units,

students follow the adventures of several people as they realise Earth

is being invaded by aliens. Each of the ten units focuses on a specific

area of language or vocabulary. Each unit contains four sections:

1 Get ready

The unit begins with a short warm-up activity to introduce some of

the useful language and the situation.

2 The story

Students listen to a short scene from the story of an alien invasionand answer a simple question about it. They then follow a script of

the scene and listen for information that’s missing from the script

which helps them to answer a comprehension question.

3 The phrases

Students listen and repeat key phrases from the scene.

4 Your turn

Finally, students do a simple exercise with language from the story.

Then they use the story and the language to create and role-play

their own conversation in a similar situation.

All the audio is

available as an mp3

download.

Alien invasion flash cards

There are two sets of flash cards that cover vocabulary for an alien

invasion (after unit 5) and human resistance (after unit 10). There

are several ways you can use these pages in class:

Learn the words

Students match the words in the middle of the page to the

pictures. Then they cover the words with a piece of card and test

each other by pointing to pictures and asking ‘What’s that?’

Flash cards

Students cut up the pictures and write the words on the back.

They use these as flash cards to test each other on the vocabulary.

Memory gamePrint two copies of each page and cut out the pictures. Students

put all the pictures face down. They take turns playing a memory

game. They pick up a card, say the word and then pick up another

card. If the cards match, they keep the pair.

Story game

Cut up the pictures and put them face down in two piles. Students

take two cards from one pile and two cards from the other. They

have to make a short story or prepare a scene from an alien

invasion that includes the pictures they chose.



S A M P L E

MEET THE ALIEN LEADERGET READY1. Put the words in order to make messages from the aliens.a) Take your us leader to . b) is planet our This now .

c) peace come We in .

THE STORY2. Read and listen to the story. What message from exercise 1

does the alien leader want Dani to send?

Alien leader: Welcome to my ship. I am sorry for your ...

inconvenience.

Dani: Who are you? I want to leave and I want my phone.Alien leader: Give the Earth boy his communication device.

You will send our message to your people

Dani: What's the message?

Alien leader: We come in peace.

Dani: Is it true?

Alien leader: Of course it isn't true. This is our planet now.

Dani: OK. I can video the message and upload it.

Alien leader: Good.

Dani: This is Dani Black. I'm a prisoner on the alien ship. They

are not here in peace. They want to take our world.

Alien leader: You're making a big mistake, Earth boy. A big

mistake. He's escaping. Stop him!

3. Listen again. How does Dani end his video message?

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THE PHRASES4. Listen and repeat the useful phrases.Meeting the alien leader

Welcome to my ship.

We come in peace.

They want to take our world.

You're making a big mistake

Other useful phrases

I want to leave.

I'm a prisoner.Stop him!

5. Circle the correct pronoun.

Dani: And if (1) my/their people do not accept

(2) their/your conditions?

Alien leader: Then (3) they/their lives are finished.

This is (4) our/your world now. (5) Your/You have no choice.

YOUR TURN6. Prepare a conversation. Use the story to help you.

Student A: You are the alien leader. Give a message to B to

record.

Student B: You are the alien's prisoner. Prepare a message to

send to the world.

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S A M P L E

ALIEN INVASION FLASH CARDS

contact

alienspaceship

planetgun

r o c k e

tcommunicate

satellite dish

EXPERIMENT

abduction

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