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Unit 22 Lesson 4
Some giant steps
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• identified difference in meaning in a set of sentences
• read a text and answered questions based on it
• organised a jumbled text
A Read the following sentences. How are they different? Discuss in pairs.
1 He had finished his class work when the bell rang.
2 He finished his class work when the bell rang.
3 While he was finishing his class work the bell rang.
B Now read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
Living in Space
Scientists have been experimenting with the idea of living in space for a long time. But it is not easy to live in space. There is no gravity and the body needs a lot of adjusting to do. One of the scientists reported that his heartbeat had become slower, and bones and muscles had felt weaker as calcium had been decreasing from them. His head had felt heavy as there was no gravity to keep blood down in the legs and there was also a feeling of space sickness which is like travel sickness. Doing everyday jobs also becomes difficult. Water cannot be poured because it stays in one place like a big ball. If you want a drink you must do it with straw from a closed container. If you sprinkle salt it spreads all around you and heavy objects can be moved with one finger as they have no weight. Astronauts therefore need months of training to be able to adjust to conditions in space.
C Would you like to live in space? Give reasons for your answer. Discuss with a partner.
D Taking help from the text, make a list of the problems that you might face if you were to live in space. Now imagine that you were an astronaut in space. Tell your partner what problems you faced when you were in the space craft. Also add what your feelings were.
E Now read the following information on space travel. Rewrite the 2 sentences by joining them using before or after. Use had with the action that happened before.
1 Russian female Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova travelled into space in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
2 In March 1992 the Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev returned to earth. He spent 313 days in space.
3 Now astronauts go to space in a Space Shuttle. In the past they went in the command module of a rocket.
4 A dog called Laika was sent into space in 1957. The first Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin went out into space in 1961.
5 Many Russian and American astronauts landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The American astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon in 1969.
F Read the following passage. The sentences are not in proper order. Rearrange them to form an organised text.
Space Stations
Since then four Space have been launched by the Russians and Americans separately. It is a 16-nation project which marks unprecedented international co-operation in Space Research. But in October 2000 the first manned Space Station ISS (International Space Station) was launched with two Russian and one American Astronauts. To conduct experiments in space, scientists have launched Space Stations which provide laboratories for living and conducting experiments. The Space Station is expected to be completed by the year 2006. The first Space Station Salyut was launched by the Russians in 1971.
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive
reading,
speaking,
writing. Functions.
Organising text.
Grammar/Structure.
Present perfect, past perfect
Vocabulary.
gravity,
unprecedented,
launched.
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Unit 22 Lesson 4
Some giant steps
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• identified difference in meaning in a set of sentences
• read a text and answered questions based on it
• organised a jumbled text
A Read the following sentences. How are they different? Discuss in pairs.
1 He had finished his class work when the bell rang.
2 He finished his class work when the bell rang.
3 While he was finishing his class work the bell rang.
B Now read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
Living in Space
Scientists have been experimenting with the idea of living in space for a long time. But it is not easy to live in space. There is no gravity and the body needs a lot of adjusting to do. One of the scientists reported that his heartbeat had become slower, and bones and muscles had felt weaker as calcium had been decreasing from them. His head had felt heavy as there was no gravity to keep blood down in the legs and there was also a feeling of space sickness which is like travel sickness. Doing everyday jobs also becomes difficult. Water cannot be poured because it stays in one place like a big ball. If you want a drink you must do it with straw from a closed container. If you sprinkle salt it spreads all around you and heavy objects can be moved with one finger as they have no weight. Astronauts therefore need months of training to be able to adjust to conditions in space.
C Would you like to live in space? Give reasons for your answer. Discuss with a partner.
D Taking help from the text, make a list of the problems that you might face if you were to live in space. Now imagine that you were an astronaut in space. Tell your partner what problems you faced when you were in the space craft. Also add what your feelings were.
E Now read the following information on space travel. Rewrite the 2 sentences by joining them using before or after. Use had with the action that happened before.
1 Russian female Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova travelled into space in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
2 In March 1992 the Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev returned to earth. He spent 313 days in space.
3 Now astronauts go to space in a Space Shuttle. In the past they went in the command module of a rocket.
4 A dog called Laika was sent into space in 1957. The first Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin went out into space in 1961.
5 Many Russian and American astronauts landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The American astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon in 1969.
F Read the following passage. The sentences are not in proper order. Rearrange them to form an organised text.
Space Stations
Since then four Space have been launched by the Russians and Americans separately. It is a 16-nation project which marks unprecedented international co-operation in Space Research. But in October 2000 the first manned Space Station ISS (International Space Station) was launched with two Russian and one American Astronauts. To conduct experiments in space, scientists have launched Space Stations which provide laboratories for living and conducting experiments. The Space Station is expected to be completed by the year 2006. The first Space Station Salyut was launched by the Russians in 1971.
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive
reading,
speaking,
writing. Functions.
Organising text.
Grammar/Structure.
Present perfect, past perfect
Vocabulary.
gravity,
unprecedented,
launched.