Presentation made by Bikchantaeva A.R.

ELT of Nizhniy Naratbash secondary school, Buinsk district, Tatarstan

Space Tourism

English lesson, 8th grade, Section 4 Exploring Space (УМК Биболетовой М.З., Трубаневой Н.Н.)

You will:• learn more about space exploration

and astronauts• find out what the advantages and the

disadvantages of space exploration are• review topic vocabulary• develop jigsaw reading skills• discuss the benefits of space tourism• collaborate in pairs and small groups

What do these words have in common?

Soyuz

Challenger

Columbia

Shenzhou

Spaceships

Read and define the words:

People and Profiles

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Nicolaus Copernicus

Yuri Gagarin

Sergey Korolyov

Valentina Tereshkova

Galileo Galilei

Neil Armstrong

Mind Mapping

Space Exploration

Advantages Disadvantages GROUP 1. GROUP 2.

We are all for space We are opposed to exploration! cosmic researches!

Advantages• learning more about

the universe and its creation 

• expanding scientific research

• discovering a new world

• developing the modern means of communication

• producing products in zero-gravity environments 

Disadvantages• can risk the lives of

astronauts• can also risk damage

of costly equipment• it is very expensive• the money spent on

space exploration can rather be spent on reducing poverty in other undeveloped countries

• something might be found that may be lethal to life on Earth

Space Exploration Mind Map

Catchy Captions•The Space Tourism is a new phenomenon

•Space ...the final frontier... for tourists

•Unforgettable adventures of tourists in space

•Will space tourism ever be a reality?

The Space Tourism is a new phenomenon

• How many people have travelled to space so far as tourists?

• Around 463 people traveled to space so far.

• How much does it cost to travel to space?• Around $ 20-30million

• What government agencies offer space travel?• NASA and RSA

• What are the benefits of Space tourism?• Personal experience, cheaper access to space, safer

and healthy spacecraft, money to fund future development

Space Tourists• Dennis Tito-US,

April, 2001• Mark Shuttleworth-

South Africa/UK, April, 2002

• Gregory Olsen- US, October, 2005

• Anousheh Ansari- Iran/US, September, 2006

• Charles Simonyi - Hungary/US, April, 2007

• Richard Garriott - UK/US, October, 2008

First private space explorers

RelaxationHave you ever gone out at on a cloudless night when there is no bright Moon on the sky and be blown away by the astonishing

number of stars in the sky?

Let’s travel to space together watching this video

Jigsaw reading

Space Tourism: a myth or a reality•What is the main idea of the text (paragraph)?•What details can you find to support the idea?

Two-minute debatesRED Vs

• Space travel is still too dangerous.

• Money should be spent on medicines.

• Space travel means more pollution.

• People were not meant to go into space.

• One day we’ll all have to live in space.

• Space travel will be a major industry.

• All humans should go into space once.

BLUE• Crossing the road is

dangerous. • Space travel will benefit

medicine.• We can put our waste in

space bins.• Humans are great travelers.

• The earth will always support us.

• It will be a small market only.

• No humans should ever leave

Earth

1. Read the Space Tourism History Timeline and learn more about space tourist (extra)

2. Take an online Space Tourism Survey(extra)3. Download and take a survey on the space

exploration.(essential) 4. Prepare an oral presentation that gives an

information about the benefits of space tourism (essential)

Web quest “Space and the

Universe”

Station 5Space Tourism

(http://spaceandsuniverse.jimdo.com/process/station-5-space-tourism)

Love your planet,protect it,

enjoy living on the Earth!

Thank you and good bye

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