The document outlines an integrated English/Astronomy lesson plan for secondary school students about space exploration. It includes vocabulary building, a timeline fill-in-the-blank exercise about major space events, dividing students into groups to write questions about the timeline, and a question/answer activity where students test each other's knowledge in a game format. The lesson aims to teach students about space topics while practicing English vocabulary and questioning skills.

1. Integrated English /Astronomy practice for secondary school students ( 8th - 10th grade)
Theme of the lesson: Space
 Lead in : 3- 4 minutes
 Put the students into groups of 2-3. Ask them to brainstorm vocabularybarund the the
theme space and write it down.
 Ask them to swap their pieces of paper with another group. If there are ny words which
they do not know, they can ask the other group to explain.
 Finally they can compare their vocabulary lists with the words in exercise 1.
 Students work individually, using dictionary to check words they don‘t know. ( ex.1)
 In a weaker class, write the words from the box on the board in 4 groups corresponding with gaps
1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-20. Make sure the words in the board are not in the same order as the
gaps. To save time, put students in 4 groups and ask each other to complete a quarter of the gaps.
Allow students to compare answers before checking with whole class.
 Divide students into an even number of groups. Focus on the instructions and then give students 2-
3 min. to write their questions. Monitor as they do this, making sure that they are coming up with a
variety of questions.
 Divide class into 2 teams A and B. Allocate the number to each group within Team A and the same
numbers to the team B. For example, team A has group 1,2 and 3. Team B also has group 1,2,3.
 Randomly call out the numbers. For example‘ group 2‘ and a student from the group reads out one
of their questions for group 2on the opposing team.
 If your class is small enough you could allocate number to individual students , call out the number
and one student asks a queston to one student . Keep o note score on the board.
Lesson outcome:
Ask students : what have you learned today?What can you do now?
Example: I can talk about the topic space, I can use phrases to introduce my opinion.

2. Exercises and actitvities
Exercise 1: Complete the timeline with the words in the box. You may have to change the form of
the verbs.
SPACE astronaut, astronomer, atmosphere, capsule, comsos, crew, gravity, launch, man-made,
mission, mission control, orbit ( n), orbit( v), planet , re-enter, satelite, spacecraft, space shuttle,
space station, touchdown
TIMELINE OF THE SPACE EXPLORATION
1957- The Soviet Union sent a__1____called Sputnik into space. It was the 1st
_____2______object ever to leave the Earth __3___.
1959- two monkeys became the 1st animals to survive space travel. They experienced
zero______4___for 9 minutes before their space_____5______returned to Earth.
1961- the first man in Space , Russian____6____Yuri Gagarin, _____7_____-the Earth for 108 min
before _____8_____the Earth atmosphere and landing at a Secret location.
1968- 3 Americans orbited the Moon in their_____9_Apollo 8, for 20 hours before making a safe
__10___________ in the sea.
1969- American Neil Armstrong became 1st man to walk on the Moon.
1972- Apollo 17 succesfully completed the last ever ___11___ to the Moon.
1981- Columbia , the first ___12_______, made its first flight. Unlike previous spacecraft, it was
designed to be re-used.
1986- the Soviet Union _13__ the Mir _____14________which remained
in_15___________around the Earth untill November 2000.
1990-the Hubble telescope, named after the___--16__________Edwin Hubble was sent into orbit
and began sending back amazing photos of the_____17______.
1997- A robot called Sojourner spent nearly 3 weeks moving around the surface of the_____18
Mars, sent back 550 photos to scientist at __19____Earth.
2001- A billionaire businessman, Denis Tito paid 20 milion dollars to become the 1st space
tourist. He joined the___20____of the international Space station for 8 days.
2018-the USA plans to spend 100 bilion on a mission to put humans back on the Moon by 2018.

3. Exercise 2: Work in groups . Write 3 questions about the informatikon in the timeline. Start each
question with a different question word( WHO/ WHAT/ WHERE/WHEN/HOW LONG/MANY?). Make a
note of the answers.
Exercise 3: Divide class into 2 teams. Take turns to ask a member of the other team a question.
For example: Who was the 1st person to orbit the Earth?
The key of 1st exercise:
1. Satelite
2. Man-made
3. Atmosphere
4. Gravity
5. Capsule
6. Astronaut
7. Orbited
8. Re-entering
9. Spacecraft
10. Touchdown
11. Mission
12. Spaceshuttle
13. Launched
14. Space station
15. Orbit
16. Astronomer
17. Comos
18. Planet
19. Mission control
20. crew