第7/712期初二教案

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 Women take to space (P6)

 

 

I. Pre-reading

1. Is it better to send female astronauts into space instead of male astronauts?

2. Can you name any female astronauts?

 

II. While reading

1. What do we know about the Artemis program?

A. It put a human on the moon in 1969.

B. It will send a woman to the moon.

C. It will be the second time for us to visit the moon.

D. It will take place 55 years from now.

 

	Go into space	Return to Earth
Women	·feel sick	·blood pressure problems
Men		·feel sick ·vision problems ·hearing problems

 

 

2. After returning from space, female astronauts _____.

A. might feel sicker than men

B. might have blood pressure problems

C. might have hearing problems

D. might have vision problems

 

1. Women are smaller.       use less oxygen

                            take up less space

2. Women have better communication skills.

 

3. The advantages of sending women into space include _____.

a. they use less oxygen

b. they take up less space

c. they have better communication skills

d. they have higher hormone levels than men

A. abc          B. abd          C. acd          D. bcd

 

4. From the story, we can learn that _____.

A. women act similarly to men in space

B. men are not suited to live on the moon

C. women have some advantages when traveling in space

D. women are better astronauts than men

 

III. Further reading

     Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.

       Ride was the third woman in space overall after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). After flying twice on the orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987.

 

IV. Post reading

Group activity – learn more about NASA.

·Do you know of any other space exploration programs?