Space 9A Unit 4 Revision

Space 9A/ Unit 4 Revision

• Objectives:
  • Students will be able to memorize unit 4 vocabulary.
  • Students will be able to revise comparative and superlative adjectives.
  • Students will be able to revise pronouns and use them correctly.
  • Students will be able to revise time adverbial clauses and use them correctly.
  • Students will be able to write sentences with time adverbial clauses and reflexive pronouns.

Warm Up Game

• A warm-up game is provided at the URL: https://wordwall.net/resource/30710771

Unit 4 Space

• Content:
  • Includes terms related to the solar system
  • Words like "huge/massive", "solar system", "cosmic", "diameter", "deep crater", "sun", "venus", "pressure", "planets", "galaxy", "moon", "mars", "earth", "jupiter", "dust", and "dustbin"
  • Includes names of planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • Inlcudes terms like "constellation", "comet", "satellite", "orbit", "spin", "atmosphere", and "exosphere"
  • Includes "weightless spacesuit", "spaceship", "spaceship cruise", "spaceship", spacecraft
  • Includes terms like "tour/trip, countdown, rocket, engine, launch/lift, graph, orbit, astronaut"
  • Includes "ozone layer", "meteors", "aircraft", "freeze"
  • Includes terms like "observatory", "surface", "discover", and "gravity"
• Numbers: Includes numbers such as 100, 1000, 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000, billion

Comparative Adjectives

• Mercury is nearer to the sun than Venus.
• Venus is farther from the sun than Mercury.
• Venus is hotter than Uranus.
• Uranus is colder than Venus.
• When comparing two things, add -er to the adjective and 'than'
• Examples in the notes provided:
  • larger than, hotter than, colder than, hungrier than, wider than, bigger than, faster than, lonelier than, rarer than, thinner than, taller than and noisier than

Superlative Adjectives

• Mercury is the nearest planet in the solar system.
• Pluto is the furthest planet in the solar system.
• Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.
• Pluto is the coldest planet in the solar system.
• The formation for superlative is to add -est to the adjective and put ‘the’ before it
• Examples: the most, the least, hottest, earliest, farthest

Think and Write

• Comparative Adjectives: Students are required to write comparative forms for given adjectives.
• Rules: Rules for forming comparative and superlative forms are given in the notes
• Examples: larger than, hotter than, colder than.

Comparative Adjectives (additional notes)

• Stars are more glittering than planets.
• Planets are less glittering than stars.
• Earth is more wonderful than Neptune.
• Neptune is less wonderful than Earth.

Superlative Adjectives (additional notes)

• Stars are the most glittering in space.
• Asteroids are the least glittering in space.
• Earth is the most wonderful planet.
• Pluto is the least wonderful planet.

Comparatives and Superlatives

• A list of comparative and superlative forms of adjectives (e.g., hot/hottest, good/best, old/oldest, bad/worst, near/nearest) is provided.

Large Numbers

• Example numbers to write in full are included.

Reflexive Pronouns

• Definition: Reflexive pronouns refer back to the subject.
• Singular/ Plural: "self" is used for singular, "selves" is used for plural
• Examples:
  • I hurt myself.
  • He hurt himself.
  • We amused ourselves.
  • They are teaching themselves.
  • You must look after yourself.
  • She made herself a cake.

Reflexive Pronouns (additional notes)

• Some verbs are used with reflexive pronouns (e.g., behave, cut, hurt, enjoy, look after, make).
• Other verbs are actions people usually do to themselves (e.g., shave, stand, sit).

Pronouns

• Dialogue A and B provide examples of correct pronoun usage

Time Conjunctions

• List of time conjunctions and examples of their uses (e.g., before, after, while, whenever, until, ago).

Write Sentences

• Instructions to write two sentences using two time conjunctions 'after' and 'until' are given.