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The document is a lesson plan for a 3rd Year Scientific class focusing on Astronomy and the Solar System. It includes tasks for students to reorder heavenly bodies, complete verb forms, find definitions, answer questions about the sun, and practice comparisons. The lesson aims to enhance students' understanding of celestial bodies and their characteristics.

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Handout Read and Consider

The document is a lesson plan for a 3rd Year Scientific class focusing on Astronomy and the Solar System. It includes tasks for students to reorder heavenly bodies, complete verb forms, find definitions, answer questions about the sun, and practice comparisons. The lesson aims to enhance students' understanding of celestial bodies and their characteristics.

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Lesson Heading : Read and Consider Level/Stream : 3rd Year Scientific

Unit 3 : Astronomy and the Solar System

Getting Closer Look


Task One: Read the first and the second paragraphs then reorder the heavenly bodies according to their
appearance in the text. Complete the chart with information from the text.
If you were out in space, you would see …

a. …………… b. …………… c. ……….. d. ……….. e. …………. f. ……. g. ………….

Name of Heavenly Body Description if any


1 Earth - A small tiny ball
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Task Two: Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets.


a. If the earth (stop)……………. orbiting the sun, the northern hemisphere (keep)………………getting
hotter and hotter while the southern hemisphere (be)………………….. colder and colder.
b. If earth (cease) …………..rotating about its axis but (continue) ………………..revolving around the sun,
the length of a year (remain) …………….the same, but a day (last) ……………….as long as a year
c. What (happen) to us if a large asteroid (smash) ………………..into the Earth?
d. If the sun (stop) ………………shining , we (need) heavy coats and flashlights. We (see) the stars 24
hours a day, but we (never know) when one day …….............became the next day. And we (never)
………………….see the moon again.
Task Three: Find in the text the words and phrases that match the definitions below.
1. very small (§1)… ……………………… ….
2. identify again (sb or sth) that one has seen before (§1) … ……………………… ….
3. moving continuously and smoothly in one direction (§2) … ……………………… ….
4. have a quick imperfect view of ( sb or sth) (§2) … ……………………… ….
5. giving out light when heated (§4) … ……………………… ….
6. shining with a light that gleams unsteadily (§5) … ……………………… ….
7. send, emit (§6) … ……………………… ….
8. very big (§6) … ……………………… ….
9. moving very quickly (§6) … ……………………… ….
Task Four: read paragraph 4 and answer the questions below.

1. What is the diameter of the sun? Which is bigger the sun or the earth?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. How much does the sun weigh?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. What is the temperature of its centre?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4. What makes life possible on earth?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Task Five: underline the correct form of comparison for each sentence.

1. Of all objects in our solar system, the moon is (nearer, nearest) to earth
2. Because the moon is so close to earth, it look (bigger, biggest) than the sun.
3. Actually, the sun is 400 times (larger, largest) than the moon.
4. Eclipses of the moon were (more frightening, most frightening) to ancient people than they are to us.
5. Modern people understand astronomy (better, best) than the ancients did.
6. The (more important, most important) surface features of the moon are its craters.
7. Probably the (more exciting, most exciting) event in 1969 was when American astronaut Neil Armstrong
landed on the moon.

Task Six: A/read §4 and §6 and complete the chart below.


Comparison/ Sentences
contrast
Similarities
differences
a. Consider the sentences you have written in the table above and underline the link words used to
express similarity and difference.
b. What do the following link words express: similarity or difference? Put a cross (x) in the appropriate
column.
Link words Similarity Difference
While
Similarly
Unlike
But
Just as /like
On the contrary
Similar to
Whereas

B/ Join the following pairs of sentences, using a link word from the table above, to get a meaningful
sentence. Make any necessary change.

1. It takes Uranus 84 years to complete one revolution around the sun. It takes Neptune 164.8 years to
complete one revolution around the sun.
2. Mercury has no moon or natural satellite. Venus has no moon or natural satellite.
3. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are mostly composed of rock and metal. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune are formed by mostly gaseous material.
4. The time it takes Earth to rotate on its axis equals one day or 24 hours. The time it takes Mars to rotate
on its axis equals one day or 24 hours.

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