Unit 10Unit 10Unit 10Unit 10

Space TourismSpace Tourism

GETTING INTO GRAMMAR

A. Practice

1. Richard Branson (take) people into space soon.

2. I think a lot of people (fly) on Branson’s spaceships in

a few years.

is going to take

are going tofly

A. Practice

3. I (go, not) into space ！ I think it’s crazy ！

4. I (do, not) anything this summer.

am not going to do

am not going to go

A. Practice

5. (you, travel) on a Virgin Galactic space flight in the future?

6. Who (she, visit) this summer?

is she going to visit

Are you going to travel

B. Listen and read

ACTIVATING GRAMMAR

A. Listen and write-1

1. first space tourist

2. Barron Hilton’s paper about space tourism

3. companies researching the cost of space tourism

4. SpaceShipOne’s flight 69 miles above Earth

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A. Listen and write

5. Interorbital Systems’s seven-day space vacations

6. Starchaser’s three-passenger spaceship

7. Starchaset’s 40-foot rocket

8. Average people touring space

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A. Listen and write-2

1.When is the average person going to vacation in space?

2.Is Barron Hilton going to build a spaceship

The average person is going to vacation in space at some time in the future.

No, Barron Hilton isn’t going to build a spaceship.

A. Listen and write-2

3.What kind of vacations are people going to take with Interorbital Systems?

Inorbital Systems is going to take people to outer space for seven days.

A. Listen and write-2

4.What is the company Starchaser going to do?

Starchaser is going to take people into space to orbit the earth on a three-passenger spaceship.

A. Listen and write-2

5.Why do the people at Starchaser think it’s important to get young people interested in space travel?

They think that the young people of today are going to make space tourism possible for everyone.

B. Write and talk

Example:A: I’m going to study for a test next

week.B: I think that’s true. Are you going

to study in the library or at home?