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课件网) Unit 4 Space Exploration Listening and Speaking You’re going to listen to an interview with an astronaut. Before you listen, discuss the questions in groups. 1. Can you name any famous astronauts from China or abroad China’s first astronaut The first Chinese woman to reach space The first Chinese woman to carry out a spacewalk The first man to travel into space The first man to walk on the moon Yuri Gagarin 尤里·加加林 Neil Armstrong 尼尔·阿姆斯特朗 杨利伟 刘洋 王亚平 You’re going to listen to an interview with an astronaut. Before you listen, discuss the questions in groups. 2. Do you know anything about the selection procedure for astronauts Education Background Health Condition Experience physical and mental health 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. 2. He dreamed to be an astronaut but he never thought his wish would come true. 4. It’s not mentioned. Listen for numbers Numbers questions are typically related to: time, telephone numbers, addresses, prices, weights, 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. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers. 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. 22 10 14 172 70 38 Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut. Education background: _____ degree, trained to be a _____ Experience: ____ hours of flight experience Health condition: must be in perfect _____ Courses: _____, _____ and _____ Special training: practise using _____, and do a lot of _____ and _____ training college fighter pilot 1,350 health and shape English science astronomy space equipment mental physical Interviewer: Today we are pleased to chat with Mr Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut. Mr Yang: Thanks you. Interviewer: Mr Yang, our audience is very curious about how you succeeded in becoming China’s first astronaut. It must have been a very difficul ... ...
