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Unit 11
Shoot for the stars Reading

Warmer
Write the words solar system on the 11 SHOOT FOR OBJECTIVES
board. In pairs, ask students to make
a list of as many of the planets in our THE STARS FUNCTIONS:
sympathising about past situations
solar system as they can. Give them GRAMMAR:
four or five minutes for this and then speculating (past, present and future);
cause and effect linkers
elicit a few ideas. Ask students if they VOCABULARY:
can put them in order from the sun Watch the video and think: space idioms; adjectives commonly used
to describe films
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, 28 why are people so fascinated
by space?
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
A B
28 Get ing
Play the video and discuss the
question with your class.

1–2 Give pairs two or three minutes
to discuss. Write some of their
ideas on the board.
3 Tell students not to try to
understand every word, but
to focus on answering the
questions and getting a general
understanding of the article.
4 11.01 Check/clarify:
expedition, radiation, cross-
contamination, planetary, all- REAdING 4 11.01 Read and listen to the article again and answer the
time high, collaboration, at the 1 What can you see in the photos? questions.
1 Why would 2018 have been a good year to try and get to Mars?
forefront, isolation, protective. What do you know about Mars? 2 Why will any Mars expedition probably involve more than
Before students read the article 2 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the one country?
SPEAKING
again, get them to read the questions. 3 How is Falcon 9 different from other rockets?
4 What could be done to help stop crew members getting bored?
questions through. 1 Do you think humans will land on 5 How is the Hi-Seas project helping research?
Mars in the next 30 years?
1 because it was closer to Earth 2 Why might a Mars landing be a good 6 What ideas are being explored to help overcome the problem
of radiation?
2 because it’s too much money for thing, and why might it be a bad thing? 7 What is cross-contamination and how might it affect Mars?
one country to spend 3 It can be 3 Read the article quickly. Does it 8 Why should we think twice before trying to inhabit Mars?
mention any of your opinions? Do you
reused. 4 They could have a range of agree with the opinions in the article? 5 SPEAKING
SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
activities. 5 It prepares astronauts 1 If it became possible for humans to travel to or live on
Mars, would you want to go?
for conditions on Mars. 6 using 2 If you were living on Mars, what would you miss the most
protective covering and faster about Earth?
rockets 7 If we go to Mars, we will 102
bring microbes from Earth and they
might be catastrophic for Mars.
8 because we might do the same
damage to Mars that we are doing
to Earth
5 Encourage students to express
themselves in English and to use
any vocabulary they have learned
from the article.

Objectives Resources for this unit

All available online
Functions and speaking Sympathising about past
situations Videos Worksheets
Grammar Speculating (past, present and future); cause ● Get ing: Why are people so ● Grammar and vocabulary: Basic, Standard
and effect linkers fascinated by space? and Extension Worksheets
Vocabulary Space idioms; adjectives commonly used to ● Grammar video!: Speculating (past, present ● Project: Tomorrow’s world
describe films and future) ● Communication: Space and beyond
Culture Being an astronaut ● Culture: Being an astronaut ● Literature Worksheets: The Time Machine
Tests ● Get ing and Grammar video! video
● Unit, extension and skills test 11 Worksheets

T102 Shoot for the stars | Unit 11