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Mercury is the smallest member of the sun’s family.. People sometimes call Mercury the morning or evening star.. On its lighted, Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees centigrade.. B

* Look at the picture and answer the questions.

Sun’s family

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Jupiter Saturn

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Mars

Neptune

lesson 9

Period 65: reading practice

I Before you read.

* New words.

- Mercury (n) - Neptune (n)

- Jupiter (n) - Earth (n)

- Mars (n) - Brilliant (a)

- Sun’s family (n) - Sunset >< Sunrise (n)

- Planet (n) - Degrees centigrade (n)

II While you read

( Read the passage and then answer the questions)

Mercury is the smallest member of the sun’s family It is only 3, 100 miles across It is also the sun’s swiftest planet; Its yearly journey round the sun is only 88 days

Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun On this side it is always day; on other side always night We only see the lighted side

Mercury appears to us like a yellowish – orange star As the nearest planet

to the sun or soon after sunset People sometimes call Mercury the morning or evening star

Mercury is half the size of the earth Because it is much lighter, it has much less gravity

If you can visit Mercury in a spaceship, you will find it a strange world Its low gravity make you feel very light If your weight on earth is 100 pounds, your weight on Mercury is only 27 pounds

looking at the sun from mercury you can see that it’s much more brilliant than it is seen from the earth And the yellow centre of the sun appear three

times bigger from Mercury because it is much nearer to the sun

On its lighted, Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees centigrade But the dark side is extremely cold, about 150 degrees below zero So Mercury is

* Questions

1 Is Mercury the sun’s fastest planet of the sun’s family?

2 Is Mercury the nearest planet to the sun?

3 What do people call Mercury?

4 What is Mercury’s temperature on its lighted side?

5 What is Mercury’s temperature on its dark side?

- Yes, it is

- Is, it is

- People sometimes call Mercury the morning or evening star.

- On its lighted side, Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees centigrade.

- On the dark side, Mercury is about 150 degrees below zero

III After you read (Fill in the missing words)

Mercury is the member of the sun’s family It is only 3, 100 miles across It is also the sun’s swiftest planet; Its yearly journey round the sun is only days.

Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun On this side it is always day; on other side always night We only see the lighted side.

Mercury appears to us like a yellowish – orange star As the nearest planet to the sun or soon after sunset People

sometimes call Mercury the morning or evening star

On its lighted, Mercury’s temperature is about

degrees centigrade But the dark side is extremely cold, about

150 degrees below zero So Mercury is probably the

as well as the of the planets.

smallest

88

300

coldest hottest

IV Homework.

- learn new words by heart

- Summarize the main content of the passage