Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?

3 月 12 日 英语教研组 1 李红

Earth

Mars

Moon

outer space

What is outer space like? Has anyone been to outer space? What’s in outer space?

Now let’s have a look!

Our Galaxy ---The Milky Way ( 银河 )

• There are more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy ( 星系 ), and the Sun is only one of them.

Other Galaxies

There are other galaxies in the universe. The stars we see at night are the suns in other solar systems.

the solar system

Mercury 水星

Earth 地球Mars 火星

Saturn 土星

Neptune 海王星

Venus 金星

Jupiter 木星

Uranus 天王星Pluto 冥王星

小行星带 Asteroid belt

彗星 Comets

陨石 Meteorites

How can we go to outer space?

By spacecraft.

space shuttle

astronaut

space station

Has man discovered life on the moon?

Apollo Moon landing

Moon exploration

Chang’e I

Moon exploration

Chang’e II

Chang’e II

Has man discovered life on Mars?

Yinghuo-1( 萤火一号 )

Yinghuo-1 was a Chinese Mars-exploration space probe, intended to be the first Chinese spacecraft to explore Mars. It was launched on 8 November 2011. Owing to burns did not take place, leaving both probes stranded in orbit. On 17 November, Chinese State media formally declared the Yinghuo-1 probe lost. Yinghuo-1 underwent destructive re-entry on 15 January 2012, finally disintegrating over the Pacific Ocean.

Mars is considered to be the planet that could be suitable for people to stay.

Diameter( 直径 )

6,794

kilometers

Quality( 质量 ) 6.4219e23 kilograms

Good news: Some scientists have already sent a spacecraft to Mars.

1.Astronauts take the ____________ to

get to the _____________.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words and phrases in the box.

space shuttle

space station

borrow discover life model

recently space station space shuttle

2. They haven’t ___________ any ______on

Mars yet.

3. The ________ of the space station isn’t

Daming’s, and he only wants to ________ it.

4. Astronauts haven’t been to the moon

________. The last time was over 30 years ago.

discovered life

model

borrow

recently

borrow discover life model

recently space station space shuttle

Listen and number the words as you hear them.

earth land message

moon news planet reach scientist

1 2 5

7 3 8

4 6

Read and answer the questions.

1. What school project have Daming and Tony got?

2. How does Daming feel about the school project?

Spaceship.

He is not sure how to make the model.

3. What news has Tony heard?

4. Has anyone been to Mars? Why?

Spaceship to Mars has reached there.

No, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon.

Tony and Daming meet each other. Tony

has just made a ______ of the spaceship.

Daming thinks it’s great, but he hasn’t

_______ his yet. They then talk about the

latest news. Some _________ have sent a

spaceship to Mars. It has taken several

months to get there.

Read the conversation and complete the passage. Then, act out the conversation with your partners.

model

started

scientists

They haven’t __________ life on Mars yet.

No one has been to Mars yet, but

____________ have already been to the

moon. Mars is very _____ _____. Lots of

________ are __________ in order to send

astronauts to Mars one day.

discovered

astronauts

working

far away

scientists

Listen and underline the words the speaker

stresses.

1. I’ve just made a model spaceship for our

school project.

2. I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure

how to make it.

3. Has it arrived yet?

4. Astronauts have already been to the moon.

Find out the present perfect sentences to tell what they have done, and what they haven’t done.

1. I’ve just made a model spaceship...

2. I haven’t started it yet.

3. Have you heard the latest news?

4. Scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars.

5. The journey has taken several months.

6. It has arrived already?

7. --- So have they discovered life on Mars?

--- No, they haven’t yet.

8. Astronauts have already been to the

moon.

9. But no one has been to Mars yet.

Now think about this space travel. What have we done? What haven’t we done?

We have already sent a spaceship to Mars.We have just …We have …

Let’s write more sentences and see who has the longest list!

We haven’t found life on the moon yet.We haven’t …We haven’t …

Make a list of what we have and have not done in space travel.

We have … We haven’t …

sent a spaceship to Mars discovered life on Mars

been to the moon sent an astronaut to Mars

Work in pairs. Talk about space travel with the lists of what we have and have not done.

2. Don’t panic! 不要惊慌 !

--- Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?

--- Yes, we have. But …

From the above list, we see that there is a lot of knowledge for you to explore about the outer space. Think about what you are going to do to the space when you grow up. You may work in groups, make a dialogue or write a short passage.

Make a dialogue.

Tell your partner about …

something you’ve borrowed this week.

something you’ve done recently.

a model of something you have seen.

something scientists have discovered.

Work in pairs.

1 、 Read and act out the dialogue in pairs.2 、 Do WB P120 EX 2-4.3 、 Collect some information about life on other planets and knowledge of universe.

Homework