Конспект урока "О, космос" 9 класс
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (9 класс) по теме

Урок английского языка в 9 классе  по теме:

What do we know and think of space exploration?

Цели урока:

Обучающая: развивать умения систематизировать информацию,  содержащуюся в текстах и умение кратко высказываться в связи с предложенной ситуацией

Воспитательная: воспитывать чувство патриотизма и гордости за свою Родину

Развивающая: учить выражать свое личное мнение по теме урока

Задачи урока:

1. повторить  пройденный материал о строении Вселенной (просмотр фильма)
2. развивать навыки  аудирования текста (диалог – выражение мнений)
3. развивать навыки чтения текста с извлечением нужной информации и выражать мнения о прочитанном
4. тренировать коммуникативное  взаимодействие учащихся
   

What do we know and think of space exploration?

Today the Russian people celebrate Cosmonautics Day in commemoration of the first space flight in the world which was made by a Russian citizen. So on this lesson we`ll try to give our opinions about space exploration and answer some questions:

• What can реорle explore?
• What are people`s opinions about space exploration?
• What was our country`s contribution to space exploration?
• What can people achieve with the help of space in future?

1. Let`s begin. Watch the presentation. Try to remember the words:

The text for the presentation.

We, humans, live on the Earth. And our planet Earth is surrounded by space. The sky is what we see of space. There are billions of stars and probably billions of other planets moving through space. Our planet is moving through space too. It is the fifth largest of the nine main planets in the solar system and the third planet from the Sun. The Sun is one of many stars in the Milky Way Galaxy or just the Galaxy. It is like a huge disk. The Milky Way Galaxy is not the only galaxy in space. Sometimes people can see without a telescope the Andromeda galaxy and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

So people can explore their own solar system or travel to other galaxies. But travelling to other galaxies is possible only in huge spaceships and it will take hundreds or thousands of years to travel on board. But when a suitable planet is found some people will begin new life there and then go to investigate the universe. Astronauts travel in spaceships to explore parts of space that are too far away for people to visit.

2. the Solar system
3. the galaxy
4. the universe
5. the Milky Way
6. planet
7. satellite
8. the Sun
9. the Earth
10. the Moon
11. intergalactic
12. to investigate

So answer the question what реорle can explore?

2. Listen to the text and try to finish the words.

Text for listening.

Dialogue

Ann

There are so many people in the world who are dying from diseases. And we spend billions of dollars on space research. This money should be used for medical research. Then, thousands of people won`t die.

Felix

The situation is serious. Our Earth is dying. By space exploration one day we may find another planet that we can live on. At the moment it seems impossible. But I believe that we`ll manage one day. We must learn to think not only about this generation but about future generation as well.

Linda

We are ruining our planet. We don`t take care of our rivers and seas, our forests and the air, animals and birds. We only think about money and our own comfort.

Would we agree to ruin other planets for our needs? Of course, we would. Because of space exploration, people will think that there is another planet for us in space.  

Task. Complete the sentences.

Ann

And we s….  billions of dollars on s….  research. This money should be used for medical r……

Felix

By space e……… one day we may find another p….. that we can l…. on. At the moment it seems impossible. We must learn to t…. not only about this g……… but about f….. generations as well.

Linda

Would we a…. to ruin other p…… for our needs? Of course, we w…...  People will think that there is another planet for us in s…..

3. Now we`ll read the text «Space Discoveries»

Read the text and say what happened in these years.

150-

1865-

1957-

1961-

1965-

1969-

1987-

While reading the text try to understand the meaning of the words

Space Discoveries

Men began to dream of travelling to space long ago. The First story about space flight was written in the year 150. In the16th century, Galileo made the first telescope and looked through it at the moon and the planets, many new space stories appeared. In the 1865 Jules Verne`s famous novel «From the Earth to the Moon» was published. Another space-travel story is «The first men in the Moon» by H.G. Wells. But the dream of travelling into space became true only in the 20th century. It happened in November 1957. The first animal in space was Laika, a dog from Russia. Laika travelled around the Earth for 7 days in the satellite Sputnik 2. The Russians were the first in the world to fly into outer space.  On April 12 in 1961 the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin goes into space and makes one orbit round the Earth in his spaceship Vostok-1. He orbited the Earth only once, staying in space for 108 minutes. This day went down in history of mankind as an outstanding achievement, opening the space era.

In the course of space exploration there have been lots of achievements of world science and technology. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman-cosmonaut to make a space flight, A. A. Leonov achieved the first "space walk" in 1965, the first Soviet experimental station with four cosmonauts on board went into orbit. This period saw the launching of many earth satellites, numerous space laboratories. Among the achievements is the landing of the American astronauts Armstrong and Alidrin  on the Moon on July 21 in 1969. The Soviet "Lunokhod", automatic orbital stations "Soyuz" and other space laboratories opened up a new period of space exploration. Russia is known to carry out many orbital manned flights involving over 80 cosmonauts, many of them having flown several times. It is well known that Russian cosmonauts hold the record for the longest time in space (L. Kizim has worked 375 days) and for continuous stay in space (V. Titov and M. Manarov – 365 days).

Since Yuri Gagarin’s flight, Russian space science and engineering have come a long way. According to space experts in the US and Europe Russia takes the lead in almost all space exploration. Russia has launched more than 2300 space vehicles designed to perform a variety of functions. Unmanned satellites have been of great significance in the exploration and peaceful use of outer space. They help us learn more about the relations between processes occurring on the sun and near the earth and study the structure of the upper atmosphere. These satellites are provided with scientific equipment for space navigation of civil aviation and ship, as well as exploration of the World Ocean, the earth’s surface and it’s natural resources.

When the 170 million horse power carrier-rocket called "Energia" was successfully tested in 1987, Russian has gone far ahead of the United States in the space competition. With the new "Energia" rocket it’s possible to put into orbit a 100 ton load (one must know that the first satellite carried 83.6 kg). That is enough to put into orbit components for a space station which could be a platform for a manned flight to Mars. Russian experts believe "Energia" to be able to take explorers to the Moon or bring back to the Earth satellites that went out of operation. In principle this makes it possible to build in orbit large complexes from separate units not tens of meters but kilometers across. Cosmonauts would live there permanently. And from these structures may be flights to other planets.

Read the text and answer the questions

1. How did people begin to dream about space travel?
2. What Russian words in the text have become known internationally?
3. What are the achievements of Russia in space research?
4. What can people achieve with the help of space in future?

4. Now we`ll devide into 3 groups to discuss if we need space exploration or not

Group 1: for space exploration

Group 2 :against space exploration

Group 3: not very well  aware

Tasks for groups

Group 1. Give as many arguments for space exploration as you can.

Use the expressions

it`s worth trying

to make progress

to change people`s life for better

to dream of travelling to space

to reach and touch stars

to meet beings from other planets and communicate with them

to find a planet to live on

to learn a lot from space research

to solve medical and scientific problems

to find new materials

Group 2. Give as many arguments against space exploration as you can.

Use the expressions

it`s a waste of money

spend money on other (medical, scientific research)

have a lot of serious problems on the earth : dangerous diseases, pollution, a lot of crime, wars

it`s not a key problem for people now

ruin another planet

it`s a chance in a million

to be afraid of

Group 3. Say that you are not very well  aware about space exploration

Use the expressions

to explore space only near the Earth

to find useful information

to use information from sputniks for (weather forecast)

not to think about intergalactic flights

to have no idea

to be very expensive

it`s useless to dream about space travel

don`t care

solve everyday problems

Hometast

Write an essay.

It is a well-known fact that exploring space takes a lot of time and costs much money. Some people think that it is helpful for the developing of space science. The others believe that space exploration is not worth its costs and time taking.