Module 5 Newspapers and Magazines

  a: it says here in the newspaper that by the year 2050, there will be cities on the moon.
  b: ___(1)________! _________(2)____.
  a: well, ____(3)_____________. we have the technology to do it.
  b: _________(4)______________! who wants to live on the moon?
  a: i think it would be very interesting.
  b: _________(5)_______________! it would be terrible!
  a: _________(6)_____________. i may want to do it myself.
  b: in 2050? __(7)_________________. you’ll be nearly sixty years old!
suggested answers:
  (1) oh, come on! (2) that’s impossible. (3) you never know. (4) it’s a crazy idea!
  (5) you can’t be serious! (6) well, stranger things have happened. (7) you must be joking.
3. group work
 ask ss to think of a topic by themselves, and use the expressions of belief or disbelief to make a dialogue with their partners.
 for your reference:
(1) a: a famous actor stole money from a beggar? you can’t be serious!
   b: well, i read it from the newspaper.
(2) a: it is said that some ufos were flying over shaoguan area last night.
b: oh, come on. i can’t believe what you said.
a: but it’s possible.
step 4. homework
 review the words we have learnt in this period
periods 2 reading
step 1 lead-in
step 2 fast-reading
ⅰ. read the text quickly , and choose the main idea for each part.
a. congratulations on the success from different countries.
b. three great astronauts’ conversation in space.
c. a great success in china’s space flight programme.
 

step 3 further-reading
ⅰ.read the text carefully and tell whether the following statements are ture(t) or false(f).
1. the taikonaut was in space for twenty-one hours.    (   )
2. one of the astronauts aboard the international space station was born in china.( )
3. the other man aboard the space station is a russian cosmonaut. (   )
4. china received messages of congratulations from all over the world. (   )
5. sean o’keefe works for the united nations.        (   )
6. kofi annan thought that the flight was very good news just for china. (   )
7. when yang was traveling in space, there were two other astronauts in all in space with him.                                    (   )