1. 1.Who is the first Chinese astronaut to go into space? ___________ 2.What was the date when he circled the earth in space? A) November 15, 2003 B) October 15, 2003 C) September 17, 2004 D) December 17, 2004 3.Which country first sent people up to the space, the USA or the Soviet Union? 4.So far, how many countries have succeed in sending people up to space? _______ Test your common knowledge: Yang liwei three

2. The manned spacecrafts Shenzhou 5 & 6

3. China’s first astronaut--------Yang Liwei

4. Shenzhou 5Shenzhou 6 When Who How long Oct. 15, 2003 Oct. 12, 2005 Yang Liwei 21 hours and 23 minutes 5 days Fei Junlong Nei Haisheng

5. Interview Mr. Renault

6. Listen to Part 1 and make notes of the answers to the questions. 1.When was the most exciting moment? 2. What surprise him most ? 3. What did he do in spaceship? When his spaceship lifted off the ground, he knew he was really on his way to space. The beauty of space He watched all his instruments and stayed calm.

7. Listening Practice (Ex 2, P.56) information on Yang Liwei, the astronaut education________ degree training Physical qualities high: ______ than __________ weight: _____ than _____ Personal qualities _______, _____________ Got his 170 cm less calm hard-working smaller 70 kg Trained for 10 years to fly airplane.

8. Fill in the blanks in the passage. Well, I ________ of it when I was ________,but I never thought my _______ would come ________. It all happened very _________. If there was an ________, I’d _______ to go the moon one day. dreamed young wish true gradually opportunitylove

9. C. To make the Hubble telescope work again. Why did Li Yanping have his first space walk? A. To collect data for his research on gravity. B. To test the function of the new spacesuit. C. To make the Hubble telescope work better. Listening task

10. Listen and number the words you hear in order. Hubble telescope oxygen waist gravity boots engines weigh tiring feathers 1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8

11. Listen to tape and answer the questions in Ex3. 1.Why to repair the Hubble telescope? 2.Which two ways of spacesuit protect astronauts? 3. How to move around in space? Because it needed cleaning. It carried oxygen. It also carried cold and hot water. Use small engines.

12. 4.What does it feel like in space? 5. What happens if you fly to far from the spaceship? 6. Was the repair successful? Strange because you don’t weigh anything. You will never come back again. Yes, it works well now.

13. 1.Oxygen can 2.Water system 3.Gravity boots 4. Left engine 5.Right engine 6.Tool kit

15. Brainstorming for writing A trip to the Mars? when where what who problems Solve (how)

16. writing an outline How to write an outline? Outline (main idea) The first paragraph (introduction) Body (your own ideas on the item) Conclusion (summing up) heading summing up