Bài giảng môn Tiếng Anh 9 - Unit 10: Space travel - Lesson 1: Getting started

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1. What do you think Phuc and Nick are talking about? What else can you see in the room? What do you think Phuc is interested in? Why do you think so?
2. 1. Listen and read. Phuc: It’s possibly habitable. It once had Nick: Wow, is that you in this photo? an ocean Who knows, in 20 The youngest astronaut in the years we might be flying there on world doing a spacewalk! a discovery mission. Phuc: Ha! Yeah, it was in a museum in Nick: Haha, but we’d need to do some Sweden. serious training first. They say you Nick: You look so excited! practise by scuba diving in a flight Phuc: Well, that trip made me crazy suit... about space. Before I turned ten, Phuc: That’s right. And you also have to already collected lots of books experience microgravity on a about the universe. I’d learnt parabolic flight. about the planets, the stars, Nick: What’s that? satellites, rockets, and stuff. Phuc: The plane flies at high altitude, Nick: You know, last year I visited an then it climbs sharply for a few astronomy museum and I seconds and descends sharply, a touched a meteorite. bit like a rollercoaster. The people Phuc: A meteorite! What was it like? inside the plane start to float. I’d Nick: Honestly, it wasn’t as impressive love to do that. as I’d expected. It was just like an Nick: Sounds a bit scary. But let’s take a ordinary piece of rock. look at your rock collection. There Phuc: But perhaps it was from Mars. may be something interesting Think of that! here... Nick: Maybe. Do you think there could Phuc: Yes, perhaps a meteorite that be life on Mars? landed on Earth from the moon!
3. Phuc seemsc. Whokeener is on keener spaceb. Answer travel on thanspace the Nick. questions. travel He was – crazyPhuc about or Nick? space when he was young. Phuc knows more about space and astronauts. He says he’d love to experience microgravity, whereWhy as Nickdo youthinks think microgravity so? sounds scary. 1. What was Phuc interested in when he was young? - Phuc was crazy about space. 2. What had Phuc done before he turned ten years old? - He had learnt about the universe and had collected lots of books about space. 3. Why does Phuc use the phrase ‘and stuff ’ at the end of his list? - To show that there are more things in the list but that it’s not necessary to list everything. 4. What did Nick think of the meteorite in the museum? - He wasn’t very impressed because he thought the meteorite was like an ordinary piece of rock. 5. What are some ways to train as an astronaut? - By scuba diving in a flight suit and by taking a parabolic flight to experience microgravity. 6. What does Phuc compare a parabolic flight to? - He compares it to a ride on a rollercoaster.
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