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Unit 2 Exploration Section A A Letter to Beagle Step I: Warming up and Lead-in (guessing game) NO 1: Yang Liwei Clue 1: He was an astronaut as well as a national hero in China. Clue 2: He was the first man in China who went into the space in Shenzhou V manned spaceship. NO 2： Neil Armstrong Clue1: He was once an astronaut of NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) Clue 2: He once carried out the task on Spaceship Apollo 11. Clue 3: He was the first man who landed on the moon. No. 3：Stephen William Hawking Clue1: He is an expert in astrophysics (天体物理学), theoretical physics (理论物理学) and mathematics. Clue 2: He has got great achievements in black hole and quantum cosmology (量子宇宙论). Clue 3: He is a world-famous British physical scientist who is disabled . No. 4 : The Extra-terrestrial Clue 1: It is a famous film directed by Steven Spielberg. Clue 2: It is about an alien who is left on the Earth by his partners. Clue 3: A boy named Elliot tries to help him contact his people and escape from the capture of the government. Clue 4: They become good friends and have a happy ending. Lead-in：All of these are different kinds of exploration in the Universe made by human beings. Today we’ll learn more about that in unit 2. Step II: Word Pretest Step III: Background Information 1. What is our universe made up of? 1. universe 2. Galaxy 3. solar system 4. Star 5. Planet 6. Satellite 7. comet 太阳系九大行星按距离太阳由近到远的顺序是：Mercury水星，Venus金星，Earth, Mars 火星，Jupiter 木星，Saturn 土星，Uranus 天王星，Neptune 海王星，Pluto冥王星。 the earth- planet；the Sun- star; the moon- natural satellite Satellites (natural ; artificial / man-made) Halleys comet 2. Beagle Beagle 2 was due to land on Mars on 25th December 2003. The spacecraft was successfully ejected from Mars Express on 19th December 2003. Nothing has been heard from Beagle 2 and the mission is presumed lost. 小猎犬2號是英国一个未能完成任务的着陆航天器，是欧洲空间局2003年火星快車號任务的一部分。现在仍无法确定登陆器是否已到达了火星表面；它从火星特快车上释放出来后的第六天，正准备按计划进入大气层时，失去了它所