UNIT 10
Week 31
Period 62
Lesson 1
LIFE ON THE OTHER PLANETS

GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
 Grade 9

p 83-84



Objectives: speaking and listening about UFOs
Materials: pictures, posters, textbooks, cassette…
Procedure
Timing
CONTENTS
Teacher’s and Sts’activities

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1. Have you ever heard of UFOs? Do you think they really exist?
2. Have you ever seen any films on UFOs? What are they about?
3. What do you want to know about UFOs?
4. If you saw UFOs, what would you do?

UFOs are unidentified flying objects, but no one really knows what they are. Today, you will learn about UFOs.

a meteor
sighting (unc)
an alien
a sample
a spacecraft
egg-shaped (adj)
plate-like (adj)
a treetop
may/might +Vo
sao băng
thấy
người ngoài hành tinh
mẫu
tàu vũ trụ
hình quả trứng
giống đĩa bay
ngọn cây
có thể/có lẽ

Ex: It might be an aircraft.
(something is possible)
If + S + Vo/V-s/-es, S + will + Vo
Ex: Lan will miss the bus if she doesn’t hurry.
(Conditional sentences type 1 can be used to describe situationa and consequences that are possible in the present or future)
If + S + V-ed/2 + , S + would + Vo
Ex: If Lan worked hard, she would pass the exam.
(Conditional sentences type 2 can be used to describe imaginary and unreal or untrue situations/actions at present or in the future)

UFOs are strange flying objects that some people report that they have seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from another planet. Many scientists don’t believe so. They say that if people see a UFO, it might be an aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor. However, there is still evidence for people to believe in the existence of UFOs.

Do you believe in the existence of UFOs? Tell some the reasons?

Find the words in the text having the following meanings
1. proof, support
2. falling star, or shooting star
3. unknown/strange people or thing
4. bringing together or gathering
5. caught as a prisoner
6. became impossible to see
Answer Key
1. evidence
2. meteor
3. aliens
4. collecting
5. captured
6. disappeared

UFO Sightings
1. …or…can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
2. In 1947, a pilot saw…
3. There were over…would like in1952.
4. In 1954, a woman and her children saw…house.
5. A famer saw…in 1964…
6. In 1971, two men…
7. A pilot…in 1978.
8. In 1981, a Frenchman reported…from his garden.
Answer Key
1. An aircraft, a weather balloon/a meteor
2. nine large round objects travelling at about 2,800 meters an hour.
3. 1,500 sightings
4. a UFO above their
5. an egg-shaped objects in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples
6. claimed they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft.
7. and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO.
8. that he saw a plate – like device at treetop 30 meters away.






Dates
1. 1947
2. 1952
3. 1954
4. 1964
5. 1971
6.1978
Events
a. a woman
b. a farmer
c. Kenneth Arold
d. a young pilot
e. 1,500 UFO sightings
f. two men


Answer Key: 1c 2e 3a 4b 5f 6d


Learn by heart vocabulary.
Do the tasks again
Prepare Unit 10 Lesson 2 SPEAK p 85
Vocabulary: mineral, microorganism, gemstone, creature, sparkling, spot,
trace, precious
I. Warmer
Questions and Answers
. T asks + sts answer
. T elicits the meaning of UFOs = unidentified Flying Objects

Introduction of the topic

II. Pre-stage