Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
12
Unit
What could happen to earth?
THIS UNIT IN CLUDES:
VOCABULARY
Life on Erath and other planets
PRONUCIATION
Stress in words ending in –ful and -less
GRAMMAR
May and might: review
Report speech: questions
COMMUNICATION
Predicting what other life forms might be like
Asking and answering questions about life on other planets.
captain
trek
crew
terrorist
(n)
(n)
(n)
(n)
: thuyền trưởng
: hành trình
: thủy thủ đoàn
: kẻ khủng bố
Vocabulary
alien
(n)
: người ngoài hành tinh
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
space buggy
(n)
: xe vũ trụ
6.
galaxy
(n)
: dải ngân hà
7.
solar system
(n)
: hệ mặt trời
8.
1. Listen and read.
1. Where are Duong and Nhi?
2. What are they doing?
3. What might they be talking about?





a. Tick () true (T) or false (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 travel 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.
aliens space buggy galaxy planet weightless solar system spaceship UFO
aliens
space buggy
galaxy
planet
weightless
solar system
spaceship
UFO
2. Label the picture. Then listen and repeat.
3. Use the words/ phrases in 2 to fill the blanks.
1. The __________ were green and they had huge head and big eyes.
2. The aliens came out of a _________, which looked like a disk.
3. A __________ is a vehicle used for travelling on the surface of the
moon.
4. A moon moves around a __________ and a __________ move around a
star
5. In a __________ environment, everything floats uncontrollably.
6. There are eight planets that moves round the Sun in our __________
7. We don’t know how many solar systems there are in each __________
8. Vostok 1 is a name of the __________ in which Yuri Gagarin flew into
outer space.
aliens
space buggy
galaxy
planet
weightless
solar system
spaceship
UFO
planet
4 GAME: WHAT AND WHERE
aliens
solar system
UFO
planet
galaxy
weightless
spaceship
space buggy
HOMEWORK
* Learn by heart vocabulary.
* Speak with your friends
* Prepare lesson 2: A closer look 1.