Unit 15 Space

1. Unit 15 Space Step 1: Checking the oral practice of Unit 14 Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 15

2. Part A ：Micro-Listening Exercise 1 • April 12, 1961; leave the Earth in a satellite; 108; • 17,560 • 2. 11; set foot on the moon; July 20,1969; one small • step for man; giant leap for mankind • 3. took the first “walk” in space; June 3, 1965; 100 • miles; 12-minurw space walk; nine; 21 • 4. June 1963; 71 • 5. manned space flight; 6: 23; Oct. 16.2003; 21; • 600,000

3. Part A ：Micro-Listening Exercise 2 • Oct. 12, 2005 2. Second manned spacecraft • 3. two astronauts aboard • 4. Five-day 5. 9: 00 a.m. • 6. Entered into the 200 kilometer orbit of earth • 7. the third nation • 8. The country’s place in space exploration

4. Part B ：Marco-Listening Passage 1: The 10th Planet? Culture Notes: 1. its sheer size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet itselfSince its very large size is comparable to the nine known planets, we can only consider it a planet.

5. Part B ：Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. NeptuneA distant planet of the solar system, discovered in 1846. Neptune is the fourth largest planet, which is predominantly blue, with an upper atmosphere mainly of hydrogen and helium with some methane. It has at least eight satellites, the largest of which is Triton.

6. Part B ：Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 3. The solar systemThe solar system contains of the Sun and the nine known planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Satan, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. If “Xena” is officially recognized by IAU, it will be a new planet in the outer solar system, which begins at roughly the orbit of Neptune and ends at maximum orbit distance, approximately one light year from the sun.

7. Part B ：Marco-Listening New words and expressions solar adj. 太阳的 realm n. 领域 orbit v. 绕……轨道而行 sheer adj. 绝大的 detect v. 发现 temporary adj. 临时的 permanent adj. 永久的 Neptune 海王星 Triton 海卫一 Pluto 冥王星 Yale University 耶鲁大学

8. Part B ：Marco-Listening Passage 2: A Solar Eclipse Culture Notes: 1. The MedesIndo-European people who inhabited the ancient country of Media in Asia, which corresponds to the northeastern section of present-day Iran. The Medes established an extensive empire during the 7th century BC, which was conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 550 BC.

9. Part B ：Marco-Listening Culture Notes: 2. ill omenBad sign that something terrible is going to happen in the future. The Medes and the Lydians believed that the sudden disappearance of the sun was an ill omen, a sign that they should stop the war, or else they would be punished by God. 3. as a result of cloud coverbecause of a mass of cloud covering the sky

10. Part B ：Marco-Listening New words and expressions eclipse n. [天]食 Mede n. 米提亚人 Lydian n. 吕底亚人 omen n. 预兆 partial adj. 部分的 awesome adj. 令人敬畏的 observatory n. 天文台 den n. 洞穴 rooster n. 公鸡 flicker v. 闪烁 solar eclipse 日食

11. Part C Oral Practice I Communicative Function • Students are required to work in pair and make similar conversations of their own, using the given situation and sentences on the textbooks.

12. Part C Oral Practice II Retelling • Listen to the previous passage “A Solar Eclipse” and retell it in your own words.

13. Part C Oral Practice III Discussion 1. Are you interested in astronomy? Why or why not? 2. Have you ever seen a solar or lunar eclipse? What was it like? 3. What are China’s recent achievements in the exploration of space?

14. Part D Home Listening Home listening on page 152-153