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Unit 4
Space Exploration
Listening and Speaking
Unit4 Space Exploration
水星
金星
土星
天王星
海王星
Can you name any other famous
astronauts from China or abroad?
Do you know the astronauts’ names?
Zhai Zhigang
翟志刚
Wang Yaping
王亚平
Ye Guangfu
叶光富
the first Chinese
astronaut to go
into space
the first Chinese
woman astronaut .
Yang Liwei
杨利伟
Liu Yang
刘洋
Nie Haisheng
聂海胜
Liu Boming
刘伯明
Tang Hongbo
汤洪波
What do you think of their job?
Is it easy to be an astronaut?
1. What’s the selection procedure for astronauts? Make a list of possible requirements.
Training
Body condition
Education
...
Requirements
Pre-listening
There is
an interview with Yang Liwei .
Let’s learn more about him and the requirements for becoming an astronaut.
Listening
2.
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.
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Listen to the interview and
tick the correct statements.
Read for numbers
thirty /'θɜːtɪ/
thirteen/θɜː'tiːn/
128:
one hundred and twenty eight
2,345:
two thousand three hundred and forty five
123, 456, 789:
one hundred and twenty three million four hundred and fifty six thousand
seven hundred and eighty nine
Number questions are typically related to:
time, telephone numbers, heights, 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.
9.2 nine point two
9:20 nine twenty
1886543(telephone number):
one eight eight six five four three
30
13
1. Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of _____.
2.Before he joined China’s space programme, Mr