Te 8 ruscha indd

Drums in Space
Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl, 
a girl with one big ambition - to play the 
drums in a band. To be good enough to play 
in a band Brenda had to practise a lot, but 
she lived next-door to a lot of old people -
many of them sick. She knew that the sound 
of beating drums would really get on their 
nerves.
Brenda was a very good and kind girl. She 
always tried to find a way of practicing her 
drums without bothering other people. So, 
she had tried playing in strange places like 
a kitchen, an attic, and even in a shower. 
She spent most of her time playing on books 
and boxes.
One day, while watching a science docu­
mentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot 
travel in space, because there is no air. At 
that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to 
become a sort of musical astronaut. Brenda 
built a space bubble. Inside there was a drum 
kit and a chair. Brenda got into the space 
suit she had made, entered the bubble, 
turned on the machine, and...
She played those drums like a wild child!
It was not long before Brenda Bongos -
‘The Musical Astronaut’ - had become very 
famous. Finally, Brenda was a real musical 
astronaut, and had 
gone far beyond her 
first ambition of play­
ing drums in a band.
Years later, when 
they asked her how 
she had achieved all 
this, she said, “ If 
those old people 
next-door didn’t 
mean so much to 
me, it wouldn’t happen.”

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U N IT 7 Science and technology
m m .
I n q u i r y q u e s t i o n s :
How science changed pe ople’s lives?
What are some machines that make life easier?
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I n q u i r y t h e m e :
To understand how science and technology 
improve the quality of our life
In t h i s u n i t y o u w i l l
s listen and identify different facts 
s read about the history of science and 
famous scientists 
s discuss how science and technology make 
our life easier 
s make a presentation about the most 
im portant/useful invention
A c a d e m i c s k i l l s :
s listening fo r details
s using tim eline
s understanding main ideas of paragraphs
s expressing opinions
s understanding quotes
s using modal verbs: must, may, might, could 
to express uncertainty, certainty and possibility
C r i t i c a l t h i n k i n g :
s activating prior knowledge 
s thinking about pros and cons
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