ВЕДУЩИЙ: Good afternoon! I am very glad to see you! Sit down, please! Are you ready to start our lesson? Let’s do it! Our lesson today is the game “What? Where? When?”. And we have two teams: Experts (Знатоки) and TV viewers (Телезрители). Your purpose is to collect as many scores as you can.

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Watch the video and say what we are going to speak about? Yes, you are right, we’re going to speak about space and the Solar System. What is the well-known date we celebrated in April? The 12th of April is the Space Day. This year we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight by the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

So, write down the date and the theme of the lesson: “The Space and The Solar System”. What’s the aim of our lesson? (To study new words about space and remember the famous people.)

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Now look at the screen and listen to the track. Let’s remember the names of the planets. Answer the questions:

  1. How many planets are in the solar system? (8)
  2. What is the closest planet to the Sun? (Mercury)
  3. What is the hottest planet? (Venus)
  4. What is the biggest planet? (Jupiter)
  5. What is the smallest planet? (Pluto)
  6. What colour is Mars? (Red)
  7. Which planet has got rings? (Saturn)
  8. Why is the Earth very special? (The Earth is the only one with living things.)

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Let’s check what you know about exploring space. Make up sentences. Then listen and check them.

  1. K. Tsiolkovsky
  2. S. Korolev
  3. Y. Gagarin
  4. V. Tereshkova
  5. A. Leonov
  6. N. Armstrong
  • was the first space tourist.
  • was the first astronaut.
  • constructed the first space ship.
  • was the first man to walk in space.
  • was the first woman in space.
  • was the first man on the moon.

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Write down some new words:

  • Space - космос
  • To explore - исследовать, изучать
  • Research - исследование
  • A researcher - исследователь
  • Launch - запускать
  • Spaceship - космический корабль
  • Satellite - спутник
  • Astronaut - астронавт

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Fill in the gaps with the following words and translate the sentences: research, spaceship, cosmonaut.

  1. The ____ flew at the speed of 300 miles a minute.
  2. Yuri Gagarin was the first ____ in the world.
  3. The government spends money on scientific ____.

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Fill in the gaps with the following words: launched, planets, explored.

  1. They’ve ____ their own solar system.
  2. The Earth is the fifth largest of the nine main ____ in the solar system.
  3. The satellite was ____ into space three days ago.

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Do you think there will ever be hotels in space? A Japanese company wants to build one. This is a picture of it. Listen and answer the questions.

  1. Who will build the hotel in space? (Robots will build the hotel in space.)
  2. Where will they get the building material? (They will get the material to build the hotel from the Moon.)
  3. When will the hotel open? (The hotel will open in 2020.)
  4. How many people will stay at the hotel? (There will be a hundred guests.)
  5. What will the guests see through their windows? (They will see the Earth below.)
  6. What will there be in the guests’ rooms? (Each guest will have a room with a bath, a bed, a wardrobe and a desk.)
  7. Where will they build another hotel? (They will build another hotel on the Moon.)

ВЕДУЩИЙ: Thank you for your work! What new words have we learnt today? What was the most interesting thing in our lesson?

ВЕДУЩИЙ: So, I want you to assess the lesson: Excellent / Good / Boring. Thank you for the lesson. Have a good day! Goodbye!