Uint 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Lesson 1: Getting started – What could
happen to Earth?

Watch a clip about our Solar System

I. Warm up
Planets in the Solar System

trek (n): hành trình, chuyến đi vất vả
captain /kæptin/ (n): thuyền trưởng, đội trưởng
crew /kru:/ (n): phi hành đoàn
terrorist /terərist/ (n): kẻ khủng bố
alien/'eiliən/ (n): người ngoài hành tinh
space buggy/'bᴧgi/(n): xe vũ trụ, tàu không gian
galaxy/'gæləksi/ (n): dải ngân hà
solar system (n): hệ mặt trời
to walk a long distance, usually over land such as hills, 
the leader of
a ship/
spaceship
is trek
a captain
mountains,
or forests:
means

* Grammar: reported questions
Eg:
“Where did you go yesterday?” Mai asked me.
Þ Mai asked me where I had gone the day before.
Þ S + asked + sb + wh-questions + S + V(back to a tense) + O.

a. Read the statements and predict if they are () true (T)
or false (F)
1. Duong and Trang saw a boring film yesterday.
2. Nhi has seen Star Trek 2009.
3. Star Trek 2009 is a non-fiction film.
4. Nhi and Trang sometimes thinks about the future of the
world.
5. Duong sounds sure about the future of the Earth.

T

F

* Check True (T) or False (F)
1. Duong and Trang saw a boring film yesterday.
very interesting
2. Nhi has seen Star Trek 2009.
3. Star Trek 2009 is a non-fiction film.
fiction
4. Nhi and Trang sometimes thinks about the future of the
world.
5. Duong sounds sure about the future of the Earth.
didn't know

F
T
F
T
F

b. Answer the questions.

1. Who is the captain of the spaceship?
 James Kirk is the captain of the spaceship.
2. Where did the crew go in Star Trek 2009?
 They went to Nibiru planet.
3. When does the story in Star Trek Into Darkness happen?
 It happens in 2259.
4. What do you think is the Enterprise?
 It's the name of the spaceship that the crew travels on.
5. What does John Harrison want to do?
 He wants to destroy Earth.

c. Can you find the sentences in reported speech in the conversation?
Underline them.

2. Label the picture. Then listen and repeat.
aliens
space buggy
galaxy
planet weightless
solar system
spaceship
UFO

1

5

aliens

galaxy

2
space buggy

3

6

7

spaceship

UFO

solar system

4

8

weightless

planet

3. Use the words/ phrases in 2 to fill the blanks.
aliens
1. The __________
were green and they had huge head and big eyes.
2. The aliens came out of a _________,
which looked like a disk.
UFO
space buggyis a vehicle used for travelling on the surface of the
3. A __________
moon.
planet
4. A moon moves around a __________
and a __________
move around a
planet
star.
5. In a __________
weightless environment, everything floats uncontrollably.
solar system
6. There are eight planets that moves round the Sun in our __________
galaxy
7. We don't know how many solar systems there are in each __________
spaceship in which Yuri Gagarin flew into
8. Vostok 1 is a name of the __________
outer space.

4 GAME: WHAT AND WHERE
1

7

aliens

2 solar system

galaxy

6 spaceship

3

UFO

4

8 space buggy

planet

5 weightless

Home work

- Learn by heart the new words and grammar
at home.
- Practice reading the dialogue
- Do exercises in part A in work book
- Prepare new lesson: A closer look 1