Intermediate 1 - Week 23 – Space Tourists
I)
Listening :
1) You
are going to listen to a radio programme. All the following words appear in the
programme:
blast off contestant game show museum rocket tourism
What
do you think it is about?
2)
Listen and answer the questions:
1.
How many space tourists have there been?
2.
How much did they pay to go into space?
3.
Who is organizing the new game show?
4.
What countries will the contestants come from?
5.
Where will the game show be filmed?
6.
What is the prize?
7.
Will the winner visit the International Space
Station?
8.
Who thinks that space tourism is too dangerous?
3)
Would you like to go into space? Why or why not?
II)
Vocabulary : compound nouns with numbers
1)
Which phrase is correct?
1.
20-million-dollar cheque/ 20-million dollars
cheque
2.
Thirteen-part show/ thirteen-parts show
3. Eight-day
trip/ eight-days trip
Match the words from
column A with the words from column B to complete the sentences
A
Eight-hour
Five-star
Million-dollar
Ten-minute
20-euro
Two-week
B
Break
Course
Day
Hotel
House
Note
1.
He went to England for a ____________ in
business English.
2.
Have you got change for a _________________?
3.
I’ve never stayed in a ______________.
4.
Let’s stop for a ________________ and a cup pf
coffee.
5.
I usually work an ______________ but sometimes I
do more.
6.
She lives in a _____________ in the Hollywood
Hills.
III)
Grammar : predictions 2 (maybe,
probably, certainly, etc)
We
can use words like possibly and perhaps to make our predictions sound more or
less probable.
We
usually put maybe and perhaps at the beginning of the sentence
Perhaps
it will be you
Possibly,
probably, certainly and definitely come after will in positive sentences and before won't in negative sentences
The contestants will certainly need to be very fit.
The
winner possibly won’t visit the space station.
Exercises:
1.
Who feels sure (S)? who doesn’t feel so sure
(NS)?
a)
Mars will probably become a kind of airport.
b)
There’ll certainly be hotels and factories up
there.
c)
Yeah, but flights will definitely be expensive.
d)
Well, I certainly won’t see Mars. I’m unemployed.
e)
You’ll probably get a free trip then: no return!
2.
Put the words in brackets into the correct place
in the sentences.
a)
We won’t discover life on other planets.
(probably)
b)
_________________________________________________________________
c)
China will be the first country to land a person
on Mars. (possibly)
d)
__________________________________________________________________
e)
Ordinary people won’t be able to travel in space
for a very long time. (definitely)
f)
__________________________________________________________________
g)
There will be hotels in space in the next twenty
years. (perhaps)
h)
__________________________________________________________________
i)
Engineers will build factories in space.
(certainly)
j)
__________________________________________________________________
k)
We will stop spending money on space
exploration. (maybe)
____________________________________________________________________
IV)
Speaking :
Choose one of the questions
below for a class survey. Ask the other students in the class what they think.
Use the following words in your answers:
definitely probably possibly definitely not
1.
Will you ever speak very good English?
2.
Will you ever be in trouble with the police?
3.
Will you lose your teeth or your hair?
4.
Will you live to be 100?
5.
Will you be a millionaire?
V)
Homework :
Complete
the sentences with the compound nouns from the alphabetti-spaghetti
1.
I’m taking a _____________________ in Spanish.
2.
A ___________________ from work isn’t a long
time for new mothers.
3.
No air-conditioning! In a _____________________!
4.
Pieces of a ________________________ fell from
the sky last month in South Africa.
5.
I don’t have anything smaller than a
______________________.
6.
It’s a _________________ from here to Bruges.
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