Today's Lesson
But first, a dictation!
Awesome Facts
INTRO Write a list of 10 reasons as to why the world is awesome. Discuss your lists.
WARMER Look through the gap fill exercise below and try to guess the missing words in numbers 1,2, 13, 17 and 20.
Now listen to the audio and fill in the missing words.
LISTENING
1. There are approximately _____________ bacteria living on every square centimetre of our skin.
2. On average, your skin renews itself every _____________.
3. Frogs shed their skin on a regular basis to ______________________. Some do it every day. And after they’ve pulled it off, they _____________________ it.
4. But frogs can’t swallow without _____________________ because they use their _____________________ to help push food into their stomachs.
5. The stomach of many starfish is actually ______________ out of their mouths, then they _______________ their prey, pre-digest it, and suck the whole thing back in again.
6. Starfish are not actually _____________.
7. And killer whales are not ___________ either, they are ___________________________.
8. And believe it or not, dolphins can call _________________________________________.
9. Dolphins can also ___________________ themselves in the __________________, as can elephants, chimpanzees, and their close relatives bonobos.
10. Who resolve their differences through sex rather than _____________________.
11. Bacteria ___________________ by _______________________________, and they can do it so fast, that theoretically a single bacteria could produce more _______________________ than there are protons in the entire universe.
12. If this 5p was the sun, then this __________________________ would be the earth, and they’d be about that far apart.
13. There are thought to be ________________________________ stars in our galaxy.
14. If this 5p were the sun, and this 5p were the next nearest star, they’d be ___________________ apart, that’s 250 miles.
15. NASA estimates that one object of space junk returns to the earth _______________________. 16. If this 10p coin was our _________________, the Milky Way, and this 10p coin was our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, they’d actually only be about that far apart.
17. It’s thought that there’s a ________________________ stars in the observable universe. that’s a 1, followed by ________________ zeros.
18. It’s estimated that there are _____________________________ atoms in every human cell.
19. And there’s thought to be _______________________ cells in the average human body.
20. We lose about __________________________________ skin cells every single minute. But while it’s a waste product for us, dead skin is the main food source for mites.
Now watch the rest of the video and list as many of the remaining 40 facts as you can.
Can you fill in the blanks from the expressions below.
IDIOMS DEFINITION
There ___a world of difference There are 2 things that are very different from each other
To ____ a world of difference To make a great effect, to improve something
To be _______ to the world Deeply asleep
To be worlds ________ To be completely different
To do somebody a world of ________ To make someone feel much better
To _________ the world of something To be very fond of something or someone
________ of this world Wonderful and exciting
Quick Writing Exercise
Spend 10 minutes writing about what you did at the weekend.
Quick Grammar - Zero Conditionals
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6AG6_VeRc1zTFFMSEFMc0RNSGs/view?usp=sharing
First Conditional
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6AG6_VeRc1zVTI4MWQ2SGo2QkU/view?usp=sharing
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