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课件网) Unit 4 Space Exploration Listening and Speaking Talk about how to be an astronaut Unit 4 Space Exploration 1. When you see “Space Exploration”, what do you think of aliens satellite astronaut rocket 2. Can you decribe the picture 3. Who do you think took the picture the moon the Jade Rabbit 2 rover tracks China's Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the moon on 3 January 2019. The Jade Rabbit 2 rover was deployed twelve hours after Chang'e 4 landed. 2. Can you decribe the picture 3. Who do you think took the picture Perhaps, the picture was taken by a robot camera. 4. Why are human beings eager to explore space to find new places to live; to find living things in space; to develop new technology; ... Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. Neil Armstrong 神秘感激发好奇心， 而好奇心则是人们探索未知事物的前提。 1. Do you know the names of these astonauts 2. What do you know about these astronauts Pre-listening China’s first astronaut: the first Chinese woman to reach space: the first Chinese to carry out a spacewalk: the first man to travel into space Yang Liwei Liu Yang Zhai Zhigang Yuri Gagarin Yang Liwei Liu Yang Zhai Zhigang Yuri Gagarin TASK 1 1. The audience is curious about how Yang Liwei became the first Chinese astronaut. 2. Mr Yang always believed that he would become an astronaut one day. 3. Mr Yang was selected to attend pilot training with 13 other people. 4. To become an astronaut in China, you have to have 1,350 hours of flying experience. 5. Astronauts not only had to learn how to use space equipment, but also had to do a lot of mental and physical training. √ √ √ Listen to the interview and tick the correct statements. TASK 2 Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers. . 1. Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of _____. 2. Before he joined China’s space programme, Mr Yang trained as a fighter pilot for _____ years. 3. Mr Yang was one of the _____ pilots who were chosen to train for space flights. 4. At the time when Mr Yang entered the space programme, astronauts had to be shorter than _____ cm in height and less than _____ kg in weight. 5. Mr Yang became China’s first astronaut when he was _____ years old. Listen for numbers Number questions are typically related to: time, telephone numbers, addresses, prices, wights, distances, etc. When you listen for numbers, you need to pay special attention to big numbers as well as those that sound quite similar, such as thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc. 22 38 172 70 14 10 TASK 3 Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut. Education background Experience Health condition Courses Special training _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ ① college degree； ②trained to be a fighter pilot more than 1,000 hours of flight experience must be in perfect health and shape English, science, and astronomy ... ...
