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Developing ideas — reading
Unit 6 Survival
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A delicate Earth
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What if people live on Mars?
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Quiz
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How much do you know about the Red Planet?
What I have known:
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Mars resembles Earth in one way or another, and it is said to be the most suitable planet for us to live on. Remember the question in the video? do you think there is life on Mars?
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I see…
I think…
I wonder…
Predict what will be mentioned in the passage.
Infer
What I want to know:
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given information
make educated guesses
Headings
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Pictures
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form opinions
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draw conclusions
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Read for main idea
2. What is the passage mainly about?
1. Check your prediction.
Facing … on Earth, humans are … as Plan B.
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Fear
In the 1960s and 1970s
Today
nuclear missiles
environmental problems
Infer: Plan A
Replacing coal and oil with forms of renewable energy .
What if the scenes in films such as The Day After Tomorrow happen in real life?
Plan B !
Para 1
Read for clues
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Plan B
Read for possibilities:
Para 2-3
Para 2:
Para 3:
4.Unmanned spacecraft
5.Probes
6.Robots
7.Space agencies
1.Relatively close
2.Less hostile
3. Human’s everlasting interest in exploring Mars
Evidence: “Mars has fascinated people since ancient times, and today our interest in Martian exploration is greater than ever before.”
Infer:
1964: Marina(水手号
1975 : Viking (海盗号)
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China's national space agency launched the spacecraft, called Tianwen-1(天问一号)
What
Launch: 2020.7.23
Land on Mars: 2021. 5
When
orbiting, landing and roving were all achieved in one mission.
Mission
This is China's first independent mission to Mars.
Meaning
Chinese efforts?
What I have known:
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China‘s national space agency is expected to launch the manned spacecraft to Mars in 2033.
Tianwen ?
Literal meaning?
Metaphorical meaning?
1. “ask the sky”
2. from Qu Yuan's long poem, reflecting Chinese people's persistence in seeking truth and exploring nature and universe.
Would you like to be one of the first people to live on Mars? Why? Why not?
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Plan B
Read for possibilities:
Para 2-3
Para 2:
Para 3:
4.Unmanned spacecraft
5.Probes
6.Robots
7.Space agencies
1.Relatively close
2.Less hostile
3. Human’s everlasting interest in exploring Mars
Evidence: “Mars has fascinated people since ancient times, and today our interest in Martian exploration is greater than ever before.”
Infer:
Evidence: Encouraged by …,space agencies of various countries are planning manned missions to Mars …within the next 25 years.
Manned missions to Mars are hard to achieve now.
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Para 4
Possibilities
9.Success in planting
8.Infer: Biosphere 2
Challenges
3. Dangerous solar radiation
2. Long time flight
1.All the skills, courage, intelligence required
4.Not able to return
5. Hard to stay alive
(Biosphere 2 experiment)
Read for challenges:
Evidence: 1.“Staying alive will be a daily challenge, but as proved by the Biosphere 2 experiment, not impossible.”
2.“Although… was not a success, it did provide us with a better understanding of …”
closed space
oxygen
food
Arizona desert
water
two-year
not a success
a better understanding
people
animals
plants
1980s
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Plan B
Para 4
Evidence: 1.While the Moon can be reached within days, it would take months to reach Mars, travelling through dangerous solar radiation.
2. Although the two-year experiment was not a success…
For now, human settlement of Mars is still decades away…
Infer: …
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4.Clear plate campaign
2.No one-use plastic
3.Green travel
1.No littering
5.Save energy/
natural resources
6.Reduce/Reuse/ Recycle
For now, what can we do?
We need to take much better care of our own planet.
Global warming
Para 5
Plan A!
What I’ve learned:
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A. The Traveller B. All About Space
C. Environmental Concerns D. Biology for Fun
1. Choose the magazine in which you would most likely to find the passage and give your reasons.
Para 1: “ Today, however, environmental problems have taken over as the greatest risk to life on Earth.”
Para 5: “Until we are finally able to live on another planet, we need to take much better care of our own.”
Think and Share
infer
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Think and Share
2. Which is better? Why?
3. Can you think of a “Plan C” to save people from the problems on Earth?
Group work
Solve Earth's problems
Live on Mars
Plan A
Plan B
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
—Francis Bacon, British philosopher
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THANK YOU
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