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Find two wishes you like.  \n2  70  Listen to someone speaking about this wall. Work in pairs. What are some examples of things that people write?  \n3 Complete the sentences (1–3) with these synonyms of the words in bold.  \nambition goal hope  \n1 Our aim /   / target is to raise $10,000 for charity.  \n2 Her   / dream is to be a professional dancer.  \n3 My parents’ wish /   / expectation was that I would study medicine in college.  \n4  70 What verbs did the speaker use in these phrases? Listen again and complete the phrases with the verbs you hear.  \n1 the dreams they’d like to true  \n2 goals that are easy to  \n3 people wanting to   up to other people’s expectations of them  \n4 some people will   their ambitions and some won’t  \n5 Work in pairs. What are your hopes, goals, and ambitions? How easy do you think they will be to achieve?  \n93  \nBringing the world to the classroom and the classroom to life A PART OF CENGAGE  \n[ELTNGL.com](ELTNGL.com)  \nALL RIGHTS RESERVED – NOT FOR RESALE  \n94  \n8a Rise of the rocket girls  \nReading  \n1 Look at the title of the article and the photo. Discuss these questions with a partner. Then read the article and check your answers.  \n1 Who do you think the rocket girls were, and what did they do?  \n2 What do you think their ambition was?  \n2 Read the article again. Work in pairs. Correct the underlined words below using words from the article to make these sentences true.  \n1 The men who flew to the moon were more experienced than the women engineers and mathematicians who helped them get there.  \n2 In the 1950s,“computers” were machines who did mathematical calculations.  \n3 As time went on, the rocket girls started programming actual scientists.  \n4 The rocket girls worked fixed hours at the lab.  \n5 The author Nathalia Holt hopes that we will see more women astronauts in the future.  \nWord focus make and do  \n3 Look at the article again. Underline three expressions with the word make and two expressions with the word do. Then circle the correct options to complete the sentences below.  \n1 We usually use make / do to describe performing a repetitive task or an obligation.  \n2 We usually use make / do to describe producing or creating something.  \n3 We use make / do + an object pronoun (e.g., something, it, that) .  \n4 Circle the correct verbs to complete these sentences.  \n1 Can I do / make a suggestion? Why don’t we take turns doing / making the housework?  \n2 I want to do / make something to help them: something that will really do /make a difference.  \n3 I’ve done /made a note of all the things we need to set up and all the shopping we need to  \ndo / make before the party.  \n4 Their business is struggling. They’re  \ndoing / making everything they can, but they’re still not doing / making a profit.  \n5 I’m taking a very interesting evening class at the college, and I’ve done /made some good friends there.  \n71  \nRise of the rocket girls  \nEveryone knows Buzz Aldrin, the famous astronaut. But how many of us have heard of Eleanor Francis Helin, an engineer behind numerous successful NASA space missions? Helin was part of a group of female  \n5 mathematicians working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in the 1960s. Nathalia Holt, the author of a book about these women—known as “rocket girls”—says,“If they hadn’t worked on the lunar project,‘man’ would not have reached the moon.”  \n10 The rocket girls started out at JPL in the 1950s, having answered a job advertisement saying“Computers needed.” They were called computers because, before today’s digital devices, yo","cbCainK5zvtD3Llp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainK5zvtD3Llp","pdf",1358955,"English","# Unit 8 Hopes and ambitions\n## Bucket list wall and discussion\n## Vocabulary practice: ambition, goal, hope\n## Listening and verb completion\n## Reading: Rise of the rocket girls\n## Word focus: make and do\n## Grammar: second, third, and mixed conditionals","[{\"question\":\"What activities are used to practise wishes and ambitions in Unit 8?\",\"answer\":\"Students look at a photo caption, choose two wishes, listen to a speaking task, and complete sentences using synonyms and verbs related to hopes and ambitions.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main message of the “Rise of the rocket girls” reading?\",\"answer\":\"The passage explains how women mathematicians and engineers at NASA’s JPL contributed to lunar missions, and it argues they deserve recognition and inspiration for future female engineers.\"},{\"question\":\"How do students practise grammar in this unit?\",\"answer\":\"They focus on second, third, and mixed conditionals by circling correct options that match real versus imagined situations and then applying the patterns in pair work.\"}]","Unit 8 Hopes and ambitions - Part 1 - Reading | PDF",1790886808,18]