新外研版八年级英语下册 Module3 Unit 1

Journey to space Unit 1 Has it arrived yet?

Space & Earth

Earth

Sun

space station

space shuttle

rocket

spacecraft

Words and expressions

1. Listen and number the words as you hear them.

earthmoon reach

1

landnews

2 3 6

messageplanet8

5

7 4

scientist

2. Listen again and complete the notes.

Mars ● news about the trip to (1) _________ eight ● journey of (2) _________ months messages yet ● has not sent back any (3) _________ life ● hope to find (4) _______ on Mars

MarsHas the spacecraft reached Mars? Please Listen to the dialogue!7

3. Read and answer the questions.

1. What school project have Daming and Tony To make a model spaceship. got? He isdoes not sure how feel to make a the model spaceship. 2. How Daming about school project? Scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars. 3. What news has Tony heard? No one. Because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon.

4. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box.

arrive

discover

plane

send

yet

In today's news, Tony has heard that scientists have arrived sent (1)_______a spaceship to Mars and it has (2)________

plane on the (3)_______after a journey of several monthsdiscovered life on from the earth. Scientists have not (4)_________ yet Mars (5)_______. And no astronaut has ever been to Mars because it is far away.10

5. Listen and underline the words the speaker stresses.

1. I’ve just made a model spaceship for our school project. 2. I haven’t started yet because I’m not sure how to make it.

3. Has it arrived yet?4. Astronauts have already been to the moon. Now listen again and repeat.11

6. Make lists of what we have and have not done in spacetravel.

A dog has travelled in space. We have... Men have travelled to the moon. _________________________________ Spaceships have taken photographs on Mars. __________________________________________________________________

We have not built houses in space. We have not… Astronauts have not been to Mercury. _________________________________ Scientists have not visited Venus. _________________________________12

7. Talk about space travel with the lists in Activity 6.

—Have we sent a spaceship to Mars?—Yes, we have. But…

Language points

What are you up to? 你在干什么呢？be up to sth. “正在做某事，忙于某事”。

I don't know what he is up to. 我不知道他在忙什么。be up to sb. “由某人决定”。 To stay or go—it's up to you. 要留下还是要走，你自

己决定。

I haven't started yet because I'm not sure how to make it. 我 还没开始做呢，因为我不确定怎么做。 yet “还，尚”。

I haven't finished my homework yet. 我还没完成作业。

yet & already辨析yet用于否定句句末时，意思是“还，尚”,表示某事 在某一时间尚没发生，但是未来也许会发生；用于 一般疑问句时，意思是“已经”。

意思是“已经”,一

般用于肯定句。用于疑问句时， already 表示惊喜、意外等感情。