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Unit 7 Space Teaching Objectives Practice and improve scanning skill Assist the students in locating the specific information as required Help students have a better idea of man’s achievements into space Teaching Procedures Text A Find in Text A the promising and the disappointing aspects of the Space Program Discuss with the students about the four questions: “Why does the author consider the U.S. space effort a catch-up operation?”, “How did the American people respond to the success of the former USSR in space exploration?”, “What were American people’s attitudes towards the tragedy of Challenger?”, “What conclusion did the Rogers Commission make after the inquiry into the Challenger accident?” Guide the students to summarize the main ideas of each part: “A symbol of the brave human spirit”, “A dream that seemed to blow up right before your eyes”, and “Observation”. Help the students understand some difficult sentences “The Soviet success had stung many parts of the American consciousness. It made Americans question the adequacy of the American school system and their basic competence and progress in science and technology, in terms of both pure and applied research. (L. 1-3, P. 103)” ; “After the 1969 moon landing, the space program focused most of its efforts on the shuttle program, whose purpose was both to add to the growing application of satellites in space to commercial purposes and to satisfy the military’s need for development of space vehicles and operations”. Text B 1. Read the questions and practice scanning strategy 2. Summarize the main idea of each passage Text C 1. Describe the development of astronomy 2. Distinguish between “geocentric” and “heliocentric” 3. Understand the contributions made by each astronomer such as Valery Bykovsky, Alexei Leonove, Neil Armstrong, Ptolemy, Kepler, and John Dalton. 4. Students’ presentation 5. Discuss the difficult expressions Assignment The history of space program has shown us that it is not only costly bu