Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?

Solar system

Moon MarsEarth

Can we get to space?

spacecraft space shuttle

astronaut

Earth

Scientist

Mars

Spacecraft

Moon

Listen and number the words as you hear

them.

□ The spacecraft has reached Mars.

□ It has landed.

□ It has already sent messages back

□ to Earth.

□ They have found life on the moon.

□ They have found life on Mars.

Check (√) the true sentences.

√

We’ve just had some news about the mission to explore Mars. The spacecraft has reached Mars after a journey of six months. The European scientists on Earth haven’t heard if it has landed on Mars yet because it hasn’t sent any messages back. We know that there isn’t any life on the moon, but scientists hope to find signs of life on Mars and other planets in our galaxy.

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Answer the questions

Making a model of the space station.

He panics.

Some scientists have sent a spacecraft to Mars.

No one.

2. How does Daming feel about the homework?

1. What homework has Daming got?

3. What news has Tony heard?

4. Who has been to Mars?

1. Astronauts take the ____________ to

get to the ____________.

2. They haven’t __________ any _____

on Mars yet.

Complete the sentences

borrow discover life model recently space shuttle space station

discovered life

space shuttle

space station

3. The _____ of the space station isn’t D

aming’s, and he only wants to ______

it.

4. Astronauts haven’t been to the moon

_______. The last time was over 30

years ago.

model

borrow

recently

1. What are you up to?

你干什么呢 ?

up to 用于非正式场合 , 表示 “正在干 从事着”。e.g. The children are very quiet, I wonder

what they are up to.

Important and difficult points

孩子们现在很安静，我不知他们又在搞什么鬼。

2.Don’t panic! 别慌 !

panic: v. ( 使人或动物 ) 受惊 .

3. Have you heard the latest news?

the latest: adj. 最近的 , 最新的

already, yet, ever, never, lately,

recently, up to the present, up till now,

in the past few years.

现在完成时还与介词 for 引起的时间状语连用 , 动词必须表示持续性的动作或状态。

4.It has taken several months to get

there.

take sb. sometime to do sth.:

花费时间做某事e.g. It took her three hours to mend her

bicycle.

她修理自行车用了三小时。

7. bring sb / sth back: 送回某人 / 送回某物

e.g. Please bring the book back

tomorrow.

请明天把书送回来 .

副词 here, there, home 则不用 to, in 。We have been there for the whole morning.

我们一上午一直在那里。 Have you been there? 你在那儿吗？