英語表現演習2 (金): The Solar System・太陽系

Hello!

How are you? Here are some pictures of some of the planets (惑星) and dwarf planets (準惑星) in the Solar System (太陽系). The picture above is one of the most famous of the planets we know - Jupiter (木星), the largest planet in our system.

Activity
Let's look at these planets. What do you know about them? Talk about what you know - or think you know - about them!

Venus (金星) 

Saturn (土星) 

Mercury (水星)

Pluto (冥王星) 

Eris (エリス) 

Discussion circles

Here are the questions for the leaders for our discussion circles.

Leader questions

For the summarizer:

Are you ready to summarize the reading/CD talk? (Can you give us your summary of the reading/CD talk?)

For the details master:

1. How long ago was the Solar System formed?

2. What kind of star is the Sun?

3. What are the four inner planets made of?

4. What are the last four planets called? 
(Leaders: Think of 1-2 more details to ask the details master!)

For the vocabulary master:

What is a moon?
What is an asteroid?
What is a dwarf planet?
What is a gas giant? 
(Leaders: Think of 1-2 more words to ask the vocabulary master!)

Homework

Choose one (1) of these planets, and research about it. Note down these things: 

• Its distance from the Sun
• Its orbit and how long it takes to revolve around the Sun
• Surface temperature
• Length of day and night
• Any other interesting points you might find about it

Bring these in and we'll share them in the next class!

Have fun! See you next time!

Images: Top - by NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/ or http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32799232/Venus - by NASA or Ricardo Nunes - http://www.astrosurf.com/nunes/explor/explor_m10.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=338424/Saturn - by NASA - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vg1_p22994c.html (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5956746/Mercury - by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington - NASA/JPL.Edited version of Mercury in color - Prockter07.jpg by jjron (cropped to square)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24301424/Pluto - by NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=243, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45707703/Eris - by ESO/L. Calçada and Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) - http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1142a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17153692