Spotlight_9_Module_2a

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Before you start...
What is your favorite
festival? Why?
Are you superstitious?
Why (not)?

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Live in space

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Ex. 1 Choose the correct word to make true sentences
about yourself.
1 I live in a block of flats/cottage/caravan/ house.
2 I live on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. floor/in the city centre/in the suburbs/in a
village.
3 My neighbourhood is quiet/noisy/crowded.
4 There's a(n) garage/attic/spare room/basement in my house.
table

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Ex. 2 Copy the word map in your notebook. In a minute add as many
words as you can think of. Compare with your partner.
Use the words to describe your house to your partner.
I live in a cottage in the suburbs. There are
4 rooms in it: a living room, three
bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a big
hall. There is also a big porch where we like
to sit in the evenings and watch the sky and
stars. We have a lot of modern appliances
such as washing machine, dish washer, a
robot vacuum cleaner, etc. It helps to keep
a house clean and tidy.

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Live in space
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Ex. 3 Read the title of the article and look at the pictures. What do you
think living on a space station would be like? Listen and read to find out.

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Ex. 4 Read the texts and match each text (A-G) with its heading (1-8). You
can only use each heading once. There is one extra heading.
4 8 6 5 2 7 1
Text

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Ex. 5 Match the words/phrases in bold in the text to the meanings.
• look at for a long time • touches • huge • hitting • fasten
• exercising • inhabitants • shut out • shortage • going round
giant – huge
residents – inhabitants
working out – exercising
lack – shortage
strap – fasten
bumping into – hitting
presses against – touches
block out - shut out
Text
orbiting - going round
stare - look at for a long time

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Ex. 6 Complete with: sleeping, zero, soft, space, pitch, lack, vacuum,
airless, household, do.
airless
1 ................. space
space
2 ....................
station
lack
3 .....................
of gravity
sleeping
4 .......................
bag
zero
5 .....................
gravity
vacuum
6 ...............................hose
soft
7 muscles go.............................
household
8 ........................ chores
pitch
9 football .........................
do
10 ........................ experiments

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Ex. 7 Fill in: make, do, mop, keep, wash, take, dust, hang out.
1 ..................my room tidy
2 .................... the washing-up, the ironing,
chores
3 ....................the beds, breakfast
4 .................the rubbish out, the dog for a
walk
5 .........................the floor
6 ........................the dishes, the clothes
7 ...........................the furniture
mop
wash
do
make
keep
dust
take

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Ex. 8 You are going to give a talk about life in space. You will have to start
in 1.5 minutes and speak for not more than 2 minutes. Remember to say:
• how lack of gravity affects life in space
• what things astronauts do in their free time
• whether you would like to live in space or not
You have to talk continuously.

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Ex. 8 You are going to give a talk about life in space. You will have to start
in 1.5 minutes and speak for not more than 2 minutes. Remember to say:
Life in space means living in zero gravity. This means you can't shower or wash your hair in the
normal way. You use a special vacuum hose to wash with and comb a no-rinse shampoo into
your hair. You have to clean the spacecraft every day because bacteria grow quickly in zero
gravity. And when you go to bed, you don't really go to bed. You sleep strapped against the
wall instead! The other important ways lack of gravity affects astronauts concern food and
exercise. They eat food from a tray strapped to their legs and salt and pepper come in liquid
form. It's also necessary for them to work out every day because otherwise their muscles
would go soft. In their free time, astronauts like to read, watch films and send emails. Maybe
they consider exercise as a free-time activity, too. They also take lots of photos of the Earth
from space.
I would like to live in space but not for long. I would really like to see how the Earth looks from
up there. And it would be interesting to experience floating in zero gravity. But I'd be very
happy to come back down to Earth!

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Ex. 9 Portfolio: It's the year 3050 and a group of teens who were born on a
space station are coming to visit Earth. Write a leaflet giving instructions
about how to eat, sleep, wash, exercise, do chores and spend free time in
a place with gravity.
When eating, your food doesn't float away so
don't strap your tray to your legs! Simply sit down
at a table and put your food...
When sleeping, don’t strap yourself into a
sleeping bag. It won’t be possible to sleep on the
wall, use a bed. It’s comfortable.
Don’t forget to wash the dishes, and don’t put
dirty dishes into a plastic bag. It’s not rubbish. We
use the same plates every time, and we should do
the washing up.
Don’t sit at home all the time, go outside, enjoy
fresh air and watch the sky and stars from the
Earth.

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Workbook
Ex. 1 Label each picture.
detached house
caravan
block of flats
cottage

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Workbook
Ex. 2 Complete the grid. What’s the hidden word?
dishwasher all
1 I’ve already put the plates and the glasses in the .......................;
you need to do is turn it on.
zero
2 When there is ................. gravity, everything seems weightless and
floats upwards.
vacuum cleaner is
3 How can we clean our carpets, now that the .................
broken?
sleeping
4 You need a new ..................... bag if you're going camping; this one is
too old.
centre
5 Kate loves living in the ................ of the city, because it’s full of life.
pitch is too wet, so I
6 It’s been raining for six days and the football .............
don’t think there'll be a game tonight.
7 You need to start exercising again, your muscles are starting to go
soft
.......... .
Lack
8 .................
of gravity makes it difficult for astronauts aboard a
spaceship to move around.
9 The residents
..................... in our area are very happy with the council’s
decision to create another park.
ishwasher
ero
a c u um
leeping
entre
itch
oft
ack
esidents

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Workbook
Ex. 3 Underline the correct item.

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Workbook
Ex. 4 Fill in: mop, make, not
do, wash and keep in the
correct tense.
makes
keep
are
washing
hasn't
done
'm
mopping

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Home task: make a word map
about you school, write a short
description