This document provides information about teaching 9th grade students about natural wonders, specifically eclipses. It includes new vocabulary words related to eclipses and the sun and moon. Examples are given of how eclipses were viewed in ancient times. The use of the past simple tense and articles like "the" are explained. Students are assigned exercises to complete involving articles and asked to write about real life eclipses for homework.

1. Natural
wonders
for the 9th grade students
Teacher O.Ulambayar 2011.03.15

2. Objective
Students are going to know about
eclipses
Use of article “the”
Past simple tense and their uses

3. Eclipse

4. New words
● The Sun the earth
●
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● The Moon partial
● Eclipse
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● the orbit a total
● eclipse

5. Sun eclipse
● A lunar eclipse saved christopher
columbus in 1503. he was an
jamiaca when the local people
refused to give him food.According
to the story he waited for the eclipse
that he knew was coming.Then
columbus said that the gods had
taken the moon away because they
were angry. He received food from
the horriefied locals.
● When the ancient chinese saw a
solar eclipse,they believed that a
dragon was trying to swallow the
sun they set off fireworks and
banged gongs to scare it away.
Court astronomers had the job of
predicting eclipses. More than two
thousand years ago the brothers
His and Ho were court astronomers.
Sadly they could not predict an
eclipse and the emperor chopped
off their heads.

6. Past simple tense
● We use the past simple to talk about past actions, situations
and repeated events.
Positive structure Positive example
subject+verb(past simple)+object I/you/he/she/we/you/they prediced an
eclipse
Negative structure Negative example
I/you/he/she/we/you/they did not predict
Subject+did not(didn't)+verb+object an eclipse
Question form's structure Question form and short answers
(Question word) Did you/he/she/we/they predict an
+Did+subject+verb+object ? eclipse ?
-Yes,they did
-No they didn't

7. Articles
● General and specific use
a/an+a singular noun To talk about a specific It's a toyota
thing
No article+plural noun To talk about all of the kind Toyotas come from Japan
of thing
The article (example)
A group of states The USA ; the UK
Rivers,seas,oceans,deserts The Tuul river; The Nile; The pacific ocean
The Sahara desert
A group of mountains The Andes; the Altai mountain
Universe and only one in the space The sun; the earth; the moon; the sky

8. Exercises
● Complete the articles
● ______sun is the hottest planet
● Hantaishir is one part of _____altai mountain
● _____USA is the most expensive city in the
world
● _____Nile is longer than _____Tuul

9. Summery
● In this lesson students are going to
know sun and moon eclipses
● They are going to know article “The”

10. Homework
● Write about becoming eclipses in the
real life
● Do exercise 4a; 6a; 6b
● To learn all new words