Unit3 Using Language1. Do you think its possible for human being to have a time travel?2. If you have the chance the take a time travel to the year AD 3005 as Li Qiang did, what places will you go to visit? Discussion Do you think there are alien creatures in outer space?What do you think they look like?Read the passage, then finish the following exercises1. How many types of creatures are mentioned in the passage? What are they?2. Where are they from?Two types of creatures. They are the mu-mu and the dimpodsThe mu-mu are a family from the Pleiades group of stars.The dimpods are from a galaxy near NGC 6240.Read Para 1. and answer: 3. What is the space station like?4. What do the alien creatures do with the human scientists?It is an enormous round plate.They work with human space scientists searching for new worlds.Read Para2. and fill the blanks.5. If you go to the stars where mu-mu live, you must wear _ on your helmets so that you can _, but the mu-mu wont _.6 . Mu-mu have _ the discovery of planets round the _ star in the _.red nightlightsseebe disturbedassisted infourthPleiades systemRead Para3.Do the “True or False”.7. Dimpods can build a new spaceship in twenty-four years.8. Dimpods can produce a liquid which melts metal.Read Para4 and answer:9. Can humans communicate with these creatures easily?Both of them eat food that contains carbon. The mu-mu drink a strange mixture of carrot juice and cocoa, while the dimpods drink lemonade mixed with herbs.10. What kind of food do they eat?Read the first and and fill in the chart on page 22Mu-muDimpodsName Mu-muDimpods SizeAppearanceColourPersonalityNo. of armsNo. of legsHow it moves tall and thin tall and thin black and whiteblack and white purple or bluepurple or bluethe size of a little the size of a little catcat very friendly very friendly one leg covered by one leg covered by shellshell sixsix too many to telltoo many to tell skip around fastskip around fastBy shaking from By shaking from side to sideside to side smallsmall a pointed head, shell- a pointed head, shell-covered leg, black and covered leg, black and white colourwhite colour interesting and livelyinteresting and lively too many to telltoo many to tellvoicevoice whisper whisper shoutshoutFoodFood mixture of carrot mixture of carrot juice and cocoajuice and cocoa lemonade with lemonade with herbsherbs1. a number of a great manya good manymany a more than onea great deal of a great amount of plenty ofa quantity of quantities of+可数名词可数名词+不可数名词不可数名词+可数或不可数或不可数名词可数名词1.extraordinarily adv. extraordinary adj.异常地;非常异常的,特别的extra- 前缀：超出ordin 次序，等级ordinary adj. 平凡的ordinarily adv. 平常地她是个美丽非凡的姑娘他的意志力非凡She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.His strength of will was extraordinary.2. So you can imagine how exciting that is!我们简直不能设想没有电灯的生活你能想像她成了飞行员吗？We can hardly imagine life withoutelectric light.Can you imagine her becoming a pilot?imagine + v-ingimagine + sb. doing/sb.s doingimagination n. 想象力imaginary adj.虚构的，想象的3. but the mu-mu wont be disturbed.disturb interrupt1.He is speaking at the meeting. Dont _ him.2. He is sleeping in his room. Dont _ him.interruptdisturb干扰，困扰打断当老师讲课时不要打断他Dont interrupt your teacher while he istalking. 4. assist. v. help 帮助I will do my best to assist youHe assists me with money.The police will assist you in finding heraddress.assist sb. with sthassist sb. in doing sth.帮助某人做某事help (sb.) (to) do help sb. with sthhelp with sth.助手assistance5. requireAll the students are required to take thisexamination.要求所有的学生都参加这次考试require sb. to do sb. is required to do他要求我们干通宵He required that we (should) work all night.require (that) sb. (should) doIts required that sb. (should) dorequire demandI _ that you leave this place at once.His health _ that he should go to bed early.demandrequires要求或命令含有强硬的意味6. depend on万物生长都需要太阳All living things depend on/upon the sunfor their growth.你放心，我会帮你的You may depend on me to help you.depend on sb. to do 依靠某人做某事Exercise:1.He asked us to _ him in carrying through the plan.A.provide B. encourage C. assist D. persuade2. When entering the park, all visitors _ to show their tickets.A. require B. will requireC. are required D. be required3. He is so careless that he is _ making mistakes in his homework.A. extraordinarily B. completelyC. continuously D. constantly单句改错单句改错1）A good many of animals have died out in recent years.2)Quantities of sand is piled in the corner.3)The number of people attending the meeting are 500.4)There is a plenty of snow in this winter.areis