1. Unit2lesson1 Modern Heroes

2. Chinese people have been dreaming of flying into space and there are many fairy stories about flying into space, such as “Chang’er Benyue”.

3. Why are people interested in exploring space?
They wonder if there is life on any other planets.
They want to know what’s in space. …

4. How did you feel about China’s first manned space flight?
Shenzhou ⅴ

5. Who?

6. Let’s learn some words about space flight..
rocket
capsule
astronaut
launch

7. spacesuit

8. parachute
helicopter

9. Read the article and match the paragraphs with these headings.
Astronaut lands safely
Welcome home
International good wishes
An exciting lift-off
Introduction
During the flight

10. Yang ____________as an astronaut and started training
Fill in the blanks
Time
Event & Feeling
In 1998
Yang ____________as an astronaut and started training
On October 15th,2003
Shenzhou v________
When the spaceship ________________
the rocket
Yang got a feeling of _______________
the sky
While the spaceship was circling the earth for the sixth time
Yang_____________
ground control and his family

11. When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle
Yang showed the flags, ____________
the wishes
When the spaceship _______its parachute
Yang felt the ship was shaking
At 6:23 a.m on Oct. 16th
Yang ______ in Inner Mongolia
When Yang __________out of the spaceship
Yang_____________________to crowds waiting for him

12. Time
Event & Feeling
In 1998
Yang ____________as an astronaut and started training.
On October 15th,2003
Shenzhou v________.
When the spaceship ________________
the rocket.
Yang got a feeling of _______________
the sky.
While the spaceship was circling the earth for the sixth time.
Yang_____________
ground control and his family.
was chosen
lifted off
separated from
soaring into
spoke with

13. let out landed When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle.
Yang showed the flags, ____________
the wishes.
When the spaceship _______its parachute.
Yang felt the ship was shaking
At 6:23 a.m on Oct. 16th
Yang ______ in Inner Mongolia
When Yang _________out of the spaceship.
Yang_____________to crowds waiting for him.
expressing
let out
landed
smiled and waved
climbed

14. Read the article and describe these pictures.

15. The space flight was lifting off.

16. The spaceship separated from the rocket.

17. The Shenzhou V circled the earth.

18. Yang Liwei was speaking with his wife and 8-year-old son.

19. Yang Liwei showed the flags of
China and the United Nations.

20. Shenzhou V released its parachute.
let out

21. The helicopter was flying to collect him.

22. Yang Liwei smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him.

23. past simple tense & past continuous tense
Grammar
past simple tense & past continuous tense

24. Retell the article
some clues

25. Yang Liwei was …. Shenzhou V, China’s first … spaceship, launched …
Yang Liwei was …. Shenzhou V, China’s first … spaceship, launched ….When the spaceship was lifting off, Yang felt … when the spaceship …he got a feeling of …. During the21-hour space flight, the Shenzhou V … . In the sixth circle, Yang … ; in the seventh circle , he showed … . On October 16th, Yang ….The launch was very ….Yang Liwei was a ….