Game: The nosy neighbour

Rules
• Each of you will have 1 map, showing 9 houses.
• The nosy neighbour wants to know what the
people in the house number 5 are doing.
• You will read your cards which tell what the
people in other houses are doing. Cross out the
pictures of these activities.
• The pictures that are left will help the nosy
neighbour find out the answer.
 Discussion
• Do you like nosy neighbours? Why/ why
not?
• Do you think we can live in an isolated
area, where there are few people around?
• Do you think people on the earth have
neighbours (the people on other planets)?
Unit 7- Are we alone?
 Contents
• Vocabulary review
• Taking better notes
– Rhetorical questions
• Practice listening
 Vocabulary preview
• Galaxy /'gæləksi/ one of the independent groups of stars
in the universe = milky way
• Approximate /ə'prɔksimət/ not completely accurate but
close
• Telescope /'teliskoup/ a cylindrical device for making
distant objects look nearer and larger, using a
combination of lenses, or lenses and curved mirrors
• Investigate /in'vestigeit/
• Extraterrestrial /,ekstrəti'restriəl/ outside the
planet Earth
Taking better notes- rhetorical questions

• What is a rhetorical question?

• What are rhetorical questions used for?
 Rhetorical question?

• a question that is asked in order to make a

statement and which does not expect an
answer
 Purposes?
• To introduce new topics
• To introduce an important idea in the
lecture

Expect to note important information

 Listening
• 1st time:
– Recognize lecture’s organization
– Note main ideas
– Rhetorical questions
– Information after rhetorical questions
• 2nd time:
– Note details
 Post-listening
• Complete part B on p.55- 56
 Homework
• Use your notes to do part B on p.57