Unit 4 Space Exploration Reading and Thinking 课件-2022-2023学年高一英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Space: The Final Frontier (Reading and thinking) 吉 林 一 中 孟 召 娟 Unit 4 Book 3 Checking the homework Listening task Wang Wei is talking to Li Lei. Listen to their dialogue and complete the following exercises. ■ Listen to the conversation and answer the questions. 1. What’s the main topic of the conversation? 2. Why does Wang Wei ask Li Lei for help? She is in charge of the poster board design(板报) of this month. The theme is “space vehicles”. But she is not familiar with that. So she wants to ask Li Lei for help. Space vehicles.(太空运载工具) Checking the homework ■ Fill in the blanks according to what you hear on the recording. 1.The rocket is a space vehicle _______________ a long tube. Now it is the only tool that can ________the earth’s gravity and ____space, so it is widely used to ________________ their orbits. 2.A spacecraft, also known as “_________” is launched into space by a rocket and ______________ in space for a certain length of time according to its scheduled design. It is used ________________________. The former is called ________________; the latter ______________. that is shaped like get rid of enter send spacecraft into spaceship it is able to travel to carry spacemen or supplies a manned spaceship a cargo spacecraft How many phases does China’s lunar exploration program include? What are they?   China's lunar exploration program consists of three phases: orbiting, landing and returning. Checking the homework Chang’e 5 Chang’e 1 Chang’e 3 orbiting (绕) sampler 采样器 Chang’e -4 orbiter 轨道飞行器 lander 登陆器 landing (落) returning (回) lunar probe(月球探测器) Reading and thinking Space: The Final Frontier front + ier 1. What’s the main idea of the passage? 2. What is the genre (体裁) of the article? expository writing The passage briefly introduces the history of human space exploration. skimming for main ideas ● clear structure ● obvious topic of each paragraph Use your own word