E9 Unit 10 Getting started

In 1947 a pilot saw nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour (in the USA). There were more than 1,500 UFO sightings (around the world)[r]

What is this?

It’s a UFO

Unidentified Flying Object

= UFO

(Vật thể bay không xác định)

Unit 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS

 Getting started:

Look at the pictures of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) Ask and answer with a partner:

-Have you ever heard about UFOs? Do you think they really exist?

-Have you ever seen any films on UFOs? What were they

about?

-What do you want to know about UFOs?

Yes, I have/ No, I haven’t / I think ……

Yes, I have/ No, I haven’t / They talked about ……

I want to know about how UFOs were made and ……….

 Listen and read

 UFOs are strange flying objects that some people report they have seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from onother planet Many scientists do not believe so They say that if people see a UFO It might be an aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteo

However, there is still evidence for people to believe in the

existence of UFOs

- meteor (n)

- evidence (n)

- alien (n)

- claim (v)

- capture (v)

tàu vũ trụ máy bay sao băng bằng chứng người hành tinh đòi quyền, nhận là bắt

spacecraft aircraft meteor alien

Checking vocabulary:

Conditional sentence: type 2

Ex: If I saw a UFO, I would take a photo

If + S+ V(past simple), S + would/ could/ might ) + V (bare- inf) …

 Điều kiện loại 2- diễn tả hành động không thể xảy ra ở hiện tại.

Ex : I would buy a big house if I were rich

Note: Trong mệnh đề If, đối với động từ tobe dùng were cho tất cả các ngôi.

a/ Find the words in the text having the following meanings.

(beginning with the given letters)

1 proof, support

2 falling start, or shooting start

3 unknow /strange people or things

4 bringing together or gardering

5 caught as a prisoner

6 became impossible to see

e …………

m ………

a …………

c …………

c …………

d …………

evidence meteor aliens collecting captured disappeared

b/ Complete the notes:

a/ _ or can be

mistaken for an alien spacecraft

b/ In 1947, a pilot saw _

c/ There were over _

worldwide in 1952

d/ In 1954, a woman and her

children saw house

e/ A farmer saw in 1964 f/ In 1971, two men _ g/ A pilot in 1978

h/ In 1981, a Frenchman reported from his garden

UFO Sightings

a/ An aircraft, a weather ballon / a meteor

b/ nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour

c/ 1,500 UFO sightings

d/ a UFO above their …

e/ an egg-shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples

f/ claimed that they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft

g/ and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO

h/ that he saw a plate-like device at a treetop

30 meters away

1 What happened in 1947 in the USA?

2 How many UFO sightings were there in 1952?

3 What did the farmer claim in 1964?

4 In 1971, were two men captured by aliens?

Answer the questions:

In 1947 a pilot saw nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour (in the USA).

There were more than 1,500 UFO sightings (around the world)

In 1964, a farmer claimed that he saw an egg-shaped

object in one of his fields

UFOs A pilot saw 9 round objects traveling about

2,800 Meters an hour

There were over 1,500 UFO sightings over the world

A woman and her Children saw UFO above their house

A farmer saw

an egg-shaped object in

his fields

Two men claimed They were captured

by aliens

A young pilot and

his plane disappeared

after sighting a UFO

Renato Nicolai

saw a plate-like

device at a

treetop 30

meters away

from his garden

In 1947

In 1 952

In 1954

In 19

64

In 1971

In 1978

In 1981

 Learn by heart vocabulary.

 Read the text again.

 Write the answers a, b in the note book.

 Prepare – Unit 10 “Speak and Listen”