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Who’s There?

• Train the usage of the Past Continuous Tense

• Read an interesting story about spaceman

Listen, read and remember

[eɪ]

[ӕ]

sp a ce

[aɪ]

sp a ceman

g a laxy

pl a net

[aᴜ]

sp a ceship

l i ke

ab ou t

s a tellite

l i ght

sp a cesuit

ou t

tr a vel

ins i de

st a tion

al i ve

ou tside

p a tted

r a dio

m i le

f a mily

w ay

th ou sand

h a ppy

sk y

p ou nd

cl i mb

sh ou t

r ou nd

“ Who’s there?”

• Read the title and guess the content of the story.
• Look at the word clouds and try to predict what is the story about.
• Who are the main characters of the story?
• Where did the story take place?
• Guess if it is a frightening or a funny story?

Answer the following questions:

• Where does the storyteller work?
• Why did he decide to go outside?
• What did he meet on his way to the lockers?
• What made him feel afraid?
• Why did he remember about Bernie Summers?
• Why did he scream and faint?
• Who knocked the spaceman out?

Find out the English equivalents:

• работать на космической станции;
• скучать внутри космической станции;
• по дороге;
• двигаться навстречу;
• застыл от страха:
• после несчастного случая;
• Я в опасности!
• потерял сознание;
• сделали ошибку;
• повержен.

Translate the following sentences into Russian:

• They were building part of the station.
• A small satellite was coming towards us.
• Something was scraping on the metal of the spacesuit.
• And it was trying to get into my spacesuit.
• Was this ghost trying to get back into my spacesuit?
• But they were not looking at me.
• They were looking at something more interesting.
• The doctors were playing with three kittens.

What do you think is the main idea of the story? Explain your choice.

1. Space is dangerous.

2. Keeping animals in space stations and spaceships should be prohibited.

3. The devil is not so black as he is painted. (У страха глаза велики.)

4. Spacemen should be very careful with their spacesuits.

Homework

Ex. 16, 17 p. 35

Write a summary of the story “Who’s There”

(page 18)

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