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Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

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Warm-up Questions

When you hear the title “Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1,” what kind of class activities do you expect?
What do you think “Foundations” means in a language-learning course?
What topics do you think Unit 1 might include?

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Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

Introduction and reading: a mysterious visitor (00:00 – 02:16)

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1. What did astronomers in Hawaii see in October 2017?

A new planet near Earth
A spaceship landing in Hawaii
A comet that crashed into the Sun
A strange object moving through the solar system

2. Why was the object surprising compared with other asteroids?

It was long and thin and behaved differently
It was square and bright blue
It was made of ice and stopped moving
It was the largest object ever found

3. What is one theory mentioned about what the object could be?

A new kind of animal
A piece of alien technology
A cloud of gas from the Moon
A broken satellite from Earth

Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

Assignment tasks: videos and writing a summary (02:16 – 04:52)

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1. What is the first video in the unit about?

A tour of Harvard University
Death Valley’s moving stones (sailing stones)
How to build a telescope
How to draw diagrams

2. After watching the video, what question should students answer?

Who first found the stones?
Why is Death Valley so hot?
How did the stones move?
Where can you buy the stones?

3. How long should the student’s summary be (according to the speaker)?

Ten sentences exactly
Three to five sentences (or what you remember)
At least two pages
One sentence only

Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

Useful phrases and wrap-up (04:52 – 06:50)

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1. In the examples, what can “knocked out” mean?

To fall asleep because you are bored
To become taller
To start laughing loudly
To be sent far away OR to become unconscious after being hit

2. What does the phrase “All possibilities should be considered” mean?

Think about only one option
Stop and think about all the options
Choose the first idea quickly
Ignore other explanations

3. What does the speaker suggest students can do with the pictures?

Delete the pictures from the assignment
Write a long report about each one
Put a check mark to show they looked at them
Draw a new picture of the Sun

Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

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1. What is the main mystery in the reading passage?

How Death Valley formed
How to become an astronomer
Why cucumbers grow long and thin
What the object ‘Oumuamua really is

2. What does the teacher want students to practice in this lesson (besides reading)?

Learning only grammar rules
Writing a short summary and using new phrases
Memorizing dates for a test
Practicing phone calls

3. Which idea best matches the teacher’s approach to learning from mysteries?

There is always only one correct answer, so don’t discuss
Only artists can understand mysteries
It’s good to consider different explanations and evidence
Mysteries should be ignored in science class

Discussion Questions

Discuss the ideas from this video

Reading Explorer Foundations – Unit 1 – Lesson 1

Do you think the object was probably a rock, or could it be something else? Why?
Have you ever seen something strange in the sky (lights, shapes, movement)? What happened?
Why is it useful to write a summary after reading a text?
Choose one phrase from the lesson (“the first ever seen,” “knocked out,” or “all possibilities should be considered”). Make your own example sentence and explain what it means.