Prime Time 2, Coursebook

Getting in touch What are those humans like? a) Two aliens are watching us from their spaceship. What do you think they will wonder about? You can’t be sure, so you use “will probably”. Make sentences using the sentence generator below. They’ll probably wonder why … not know why … not understand why … we don’t spend our holidays on Mars. we don’t have wings. we aren’t as clever as they are. we can’t see in the dark. we go to bed at night. we send our children to school. we live in houses. we walk on two legs. we eat meat. we drive cars. b) Tell the class what you think. Report from Earth The two aliens, SaxoPH1 and XyloPh1, are writing this report about the way we live. They don’t under- stand some of the things they see. a) You are a human, you know what the highlighted words mean. Write in the gaps. We can see a small blue planet Earth 1 . The strangest life forms on this planet are humans or earthlings. They are really weird! They have two legs and can move on the ground 2 but they cannot fly like we can. Their skin can be white or brown or black. No humans are green! They have two tiny holes for seeing 3 , but they can’t see for a thousand kilometres the way we can. They live in small groups of three or four 4 in little boxes 5 . Every day, the small humans 6 all go to a big building 7 . They all sit in rooms 8 and listen to a big human 9 Humans put a lot of stuff 10 in their mouths at least three times a day. It can be green, red or yellow stuff that grows on trees or other stuff that grows on the ground 11 . Or it can be dead animals 12 . It’s gross! Some of them walk around and put stuff in their mouths all day! Humans spend a lot of the day looking at little squares they hold in their hands 13 . They love to stand together, show their teeth 14 and point the thing at themselves! Humans cover their bodies in strange t9hu5r 2 3 48 6 Unit Aliens forty-eight Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum es Verlags öbv