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Unit 8 Stage 1 Space travellers66

Listen and match the pictures with the gaps.

L 8.1

Look at the pictures in 1. Write 3 sentences with I’ve ... and 3 sentences with I’ve never.

been seen read studied

Now work with a partner. Find 3 things that are the same. Tell the class.

We've studied the moon in Science.

We’ve never been in a flying saucer.

I’ve seen through a telescope.

I’ve seen fall through the sky.

I’ve seen TV programmes on the .

I’ve seen photos of the from up high.

But I’ve never seen a !

No matter how hard I try!

Space age blues, space age fun –

The things I’ve never done, and the things I've done.

I’ve read about living in a ,

I’ve been on a ‘Moon Walk’ at the fair.

I’ve started a book about an

With purple skin and silver hair.

But I’ve never been in an aeroplane,

High above the clouds in the air.

Chorus

I’ve seen every Star Wars movie.

And I’ve read all about the NASA base.

We've all studied Mars in Science –

It’s a really amazing place.

But I’ve never put on a !

Oh, I want to be an in space.

Chorus

alien

Earth

flying saucer

astronaut

the moon

planets

a shooting star

spaceship

spacesuit

I’ve seen the moon through a telescope.I’ve never been in an aeroplane.

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Unit 8 Stage 1 Space travellers 67

Read and match.

Listen. Which picture?

L 8.2

It’s very difficult to move in space. Spacesuits are big and everything floats around.These ‘space simulator’ activities show you what it is like to be an astronaut.

Put a chair down with its back on the floor. ‘Sit’ on the chair and look at the ceiling. Stay like this for 10 minutes.

Put on two pairs of trousers and three jumpers. Put on a coat and two pairs of gloves. Now pick up a pencil and write with it.

Stand on a newspaper. Wash yourself with a small towel and a water spray – but don’t drop any water. How much water can you see on the paper?

Go into a small room or tent with three friends. Do your homework, have lunch, play some games, and do some exercise there.

Put a scarf around your eyes and ears. Stand in front of a wall and cross your arms in front of you. Go to sleep.

In space, water floats in the air because there’s no gravity. The astronauts have to be very careful with water because they mustn't get water in the computers and machines.

It’s very difficult to move in spacesuits, but astronauts have to repair the spaceship and use computers.

Teams of astronauts have to live and work together in very small spaceships for a long time.

Astronauts sit like this for hours in the spaceship when they are waiting to take off.

Astronauts usually sleep standing up. They have to cross their arms or they float up to the ceiling because there’s no gravity.

Can you match these reasons with activities 1–5?

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Activity 4

Activity 5

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Unit 8 Stage 2 Planet X68

Read the story. Match these sentences with the gaps:

Have you ever been to another planet? No, I haven’t.

Have you ever seen a film? Yes, I have.

How does the story end? Choose from these ideas or write your own.

go cinema

see go

spaceshipgarden

home

nobody

leave go back planet

spaceship school field

door open

Earthtravel Planet X

walk

leave

??

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a Then I met a hairy animal with sharp claws.

b Then we left the house to go into town.

c Last summer I stayed with my grandma.

d The alien sat in it.

e It ate ten plates.

f We talked all night.

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1 One evening there was a knock on the door and when I opened it, I saw a funny red creature. ‘I’m very sorry,’ said the creature, ‘but I can’t find my spaceship. I come from Planet X. I’ve never been to another planet

and I don’t know what to do. My spaceship landed in your garden last night and I climbed out because I wanted to explore. When it went away, my spaceship wasn’t there.’

‘You can stay with Amy and me until your spaceship comes back’, said Granny.

‘That’s very nice of you. Have you ever been to another planet?’ the creature asked my granny.

‘Oh, no, I haven’t,’ said Granny, ‘but I’ve been to France.’

That night I went to bed with an alien in my bedroom.

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The next morning we all had breakfast, but the creature didn’t want anything. ‘We don’t have these things on Planet X’, it said. Then it saw the kitchen cupboard. After that it was happy.

‘Let’s go to the cinema today. Have you ever seen a film?’ Granny asked the creature.

‘Yes, I have,’ said the creature. ‘We have a lot of old Earth films on Planet X. That’s how I studied English. I love films. Come on! Let’s go.’

‘But … Granny,’ I said, ‘what are people going to say?’

Granny had a brilliant idea. We got my old pushchair out of the garage. We put a big hat on its head. 6

The Creature from Planet X

meet police officer

see take

rescuelive forever

Key words

eat – ate – eatenleave – left – leftmeet – met – met

sit – sat – satstay – stayed – stayedtalk – talked – talked

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Unit 8 Stage 2 Planet X 69

Listen and repeat.

Listen to a story in six parts. Answer the questions after each part.

L 8.4

L 8.3

Now work with a partner. Make dialogues. Take it in turns to be Amy and the alien.

a Why wasn’t Shorty at school?

b What did he do after breakfast?

c What was his friend’s nickname?

Part 1

a What was inside the spaceship?

b Why were they surprised?

c What did the aliens want to do?

Part 3

a What did the aliens do next?

b What did the other aliens do while one was mending the spaceship?

Part 5

a What was Shorty doing when he found the spaceship?

b What did they do with the spaceship?

Part 2

a Where did Shorty and Spike put the spaceship?

b Where did they go then?

Part 4

a Why were Shorty and Spike sad when they came outside?

b What did you learn about Shorty and Spike?

c What did you learn about the aliens?

Part 6

a horse a space dragon the moon Mars a teacher an alien Chinese food X pudding

Have you ever seen a dog? No, I haven’t. Have you

ever seen a Martian?

No, I haven’t. Have you? Yes, I have.

SEE GO MEET EAT

Past continuous

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Unit 8 Stage 3 The sky above us70

1 Read and do the quiz.

2 Find out the correct answers from your teacher.

Quick MathsGive yourself 1 point for

each correct answer.Multiply your total by 100 (x100).

Then divivde by 8 (÷8). What is your percentage

score? (%)

1 Imagine that the Earth is this big . How big is the sun?

a The size of a tennis ball.

b The size of a football.

c The size of a big beach ball.

2 How many major planets are there in the solar system?

a Seven.

b Eight.

c Ten.

4 Where does the planet Mercury’s name come from?

a A kind of metal.

b The messenger of the Roman gods.

c A fast car.

8 What are Pluto, Ceres and Eris?

a Dwarf planets in our solar system.

b Giant planets in our solar system.

c Spaceships visiting planets in our solar system.

7 How long is one year on Uranus?

a 8 Earth years and 4 Earth months.

b 84 Earth years.

c 18 Earth months.

5 How long is a day and night on Jupiter?

a 9 Earth hours and 50 Earth minutes.

b 90 Earth hours and 15 Earth minutes.

c 24 Earth hours.

3 Which is the hottest planet?

a Neptune.

b Venus.

c Mars.

6 What are Saturn’s rings?

a Coloured clouds.

b A line of moons that spin around the planet.

c A long line of pieces of rock and dust.

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Unit 8 Stage 3 The sky above us 71

Stories from the Sky

3 Read and answer True or False.a English people talk about 'the woman in the moon'.

b In the Chinese legend, Chang Er wanted to go to the moon.

c The Inuit believed that a bird gave them daylight.

d The Sioux told a legend about why it rained.

e Legends are true stories about the past.

In Britain we look at the moon in the night sky and talk about ‘the man in the moon’. But the Chinese talk about ‘the toad in the moon’ called Chang Er. In an old Chinese legend, Lady Chang Er was a beautiful woman. She didn’t want to die so she drank a magic potion. She wanted the potion to make her live on Earth forever. But as soon as she drank the potion, she flew up to the moon and changed into a toad. And there she still is today.

The Inuit people of northern Canada told a legend about why it was dark in their land for half the year. When the world was born it was always dark in the land of the Inuit. One day an old crow flew to the north and told them about the light in other parts of the world. They sent the crow to bring them light, but he was old and he could only carry one small ball of daylight, so they only have light for half the year. The Inuit never hurt a crow because they don’t want him to take the light away.

The Sioux Indians of North America believed that a great spirit put rainbows in the sky. One day the spirit went to Earth to talk to the animals. The bear was happy with his winter fur to keep him warm. The deer was happy with her spots to help her hide in the forest, but the flowers were very sad. They were beautiful all summer and made people happy, but when the snow came in winter they died and no one remembered them. The spirit had an idea. He made a rainbow in the sky with the colours of the dead flowers. The Sioux believed that, when it rained in summer, the rainbow in the sky was made of last year’s flowers going across the sky to heaven.

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Take-home HistoryTake-home History

Unit 8 Stage 4 Take-home History72

Read and listen to the letter. Who is it to?

Make a ‘Planet Earth Space Capsule'.

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3

Work with a partner. Look, then ask and answer.

Do people still use it today?

What was it for?

1 Cover a box with pictures of

important people and events

from this year.

2 Write the year and Planet Earth Space Capsule on the box.

3 How can you explain your life on

Earth to aliens? Put things in the

box.

4 Write a letter to an alien. Explain

the things in your box.

When did people use it?

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e

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73Unit 8 Stage 5 Story

What are Aunt Rose’s flight details?

Complete the puzzles on page 80, then turn to page 83 of your Activity Book.

L 8.12

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UNITS

Do you remember?–

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Have you ever read the Harry Potter books?

Work with a partner. Describe your route. Where are you going?

Write a true sentence about you for each picture.

Work with a partner. Do the Happy Earth quiz. Ask and answer.

a What did Marconi invent?b Which is the oldest building in

London?c Which is the hottest planet?d Which is one of the biggest

carnivals in Europe?

Happy Earth Quize How long did Amy Johnson take to fly from England

to Australia?f When did Levi Strauss make his first pair of jeans?g Where was the Titanic going when it hit the iceberg?h What were most Londoners doing when the Great Fire

of London started?

Now pass the papers around as a class. Check who wrote each paper like this:

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#

I’m leaving the bus station. I’m crossing the street to the café and I’m turning

right. I’m going past the houses and I’m going to the place on my right.

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678

9* 0

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You’re going to the ice rink!

Do you remember? Units 7–8

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UNITS

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Do you remember? Units 7–8 75

Play ‘Space race’. Your teacher has Star cards.

You need a dice and a spaceship counter .

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Make a Chinese paper lantern. TRB p40

Harvest celebrations started in Europe in the 5th century BC when the Ancient Greeks filled a goat’s horn with fruit and grain to give thanks for the harvest. Europeans then took this tradition to North America.

The first Thanksgiving festival in North America took place in 1621 in Plymouth, USA. The pilgrims from Britain arrived there in 1620 to start a new life. Their first winter was very hard but the Native Indians helped them. They showed the pilgrims how to hunt and what plants they could eat. After the first harvest the pilgrims held a feast with the Indians. At the feast they ate turkey, pumpkins, corn, cranberries and sweet potatoes.

Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA on the last Thursday of November and by Canadians in October. Most Thanksgiving meals today are nearly the same as the pilgrims’ first meal.

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Autumn Festivals

All around the world people celebrate festivals in autumn to give thanks for good harvests. Read about two of the most famous ones.

Read about the autumn festivals. Are the sentences True or False?a The Chinese took the harvest festival tradition to North America.

b The pilgrims and the Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving together.

c People celebrate Thanksgiving on the same day in Canada and the United States.

d The Chinese Moon Festival is on the same day every year.

e People say you can see a toad at the Moon Festival.

f Eating moon cakes in China is a very old tradition.

The Moon Festival takes place in China in September or October at full moon. It is a harvest festival to celebrate the wheat harvest in northern China and the rice harvest in southern China.

To celebrate the festival there is a procession and people carry lanterns with candles in. Then families have a special meal and read moon poetry. People say that on this day they can see a rabbit on the moon.

Moon cakes are the traditional Moon Festival food. They are round and sweet. They have Chinese writing or pictures on them – of a moon goddess, a rabbit or a toad. For the Chinese, moon cakes mean long life and good health.

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