Unit 1 Final task: Write an opinion about space exploration

Read the fi nal task and discuss the question.

Work in teams of three or four. Read some online posts about space exploration and decide what the writers think about it. Use the information in the posts and your own knowledge to make a pros and cons list about space exploration. Choose one post and write a reply post which gives your group’s opinion about the writer’s view and explains why.

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1 2 How do you think you will be successful in this task? Use the words in bold to help you. Look at the pages from a book below. What do you know about space exploration?Sample Pages

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Read the online posts. Do the writers agree about space exploration? What are their views?

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A In my opinion, space exploration is a waste of time and money.

We spend millions of dollars every year on improving space technology. I think that we should use that money to help people who live in poverty on our planet instead. Space scientists should use their 4 Make a pros and cons list about space exploration. 5 Choose either post A or post B. Write a response. We agree/disagree with the writer knowledge to improve life on Earth and to help in the fi ght against climate change. www.space… B Space exploration is so exciting and important. Not only does space exploration mean that in the future, when there are too many people living on Earth, we might be able to choose to go and live on another planet, but also, we have so much new technology thanks to space scientists. For example, did you know, that it was space scientists who designed the latest wind turbines. They wanted to make them really strong so that they would work on Mars, and now, thanks to this, we have wind farms generating clean energy all over the world. Did you also know that thanks to space satellites, we can monitor changes to our planet more easily? • Use previous lessons in this unit to help you present your information clearly. • Divide the roles and Top tips Sample Pagesof post A/B because… responsibilities. 6 Read your post again. • Use the task outline to help

How can you improve it? you do the task well. • Ask your teacher if you have questions.