Breaking News English.com Ready-to-Use English Lessons by Sean Banville “1,000 IDEAS & ACTIVITIES Thousands more free lessons FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS” from Sean's other websites breakingnewsenglish.com/book.html www.freeeslmaterials.com/sean_banville_lessons.html Level 3 - 16th January, 2020 Japan tycoon needs "life partner" for moon visit FREE online quizzes, mp3 listening and more for this lesson here: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2001/200116-life-partner.html Contents The Article 2 Discussion (Student-Created Qs) 15 Warm-Ups 3 Language Work (Cloze) 16 Vocabulary 4 Spelling 17 Before Reading / Listening 5 Put The Text Back Together 18 Gap Fill 6 Put The Words In The Right Order 19 Match The Sentences And Listen 7 Circle The Correct Word 20 Listening Gap Fill 8 Insert The Vowels (a, e, i, o, u) 21 Comprehension Questions 9 Punctuate The Text And Add Capitals 22 Multiple Choice - Quiz 10 Put A Slash ( / ) Where The Spaces Are 23 Role Play 11 Free Writing 24 After Reading / Listening 12 Academic Writing 25 Student Survey 13 Homework 26 Discussion (20 Questions) 14 Answers 27 Please try Levels 0, 1 and 2 (they are easier). Twitter twitter.com/SeanBanville Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/BreakingNewsEnglish/155625444452176 THE ARTICLE From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2001/200116-life-partner.html People often say, "I love you to the moon and back" to tell someone special how strong their love is. A Japanese billionaire will go to the moon and back with his love. The only problem is that he doesn't yet have a love. Yusaku Maezawa, 44, is looking for a "special someone" to join him on a trip to the moon in 2023. Mr Maezawa made his billions from his fashion company Zozo Inc. He has paid to be the very first private passenger to fly to the moon. He will be the first customer of Elon Musk's space travel company SpaceX. He will be the universe's first space tourist. However, he does not want to go on his own. He said he wants to "visit such a special place with someone special". Mr Maezawa has created a television documentary to look for a female friend to fly into space with. The documentary is called "Full Moon Lovers". On a website for the TV show, he wrote: "I'm 44 now. As feelings of loneliness and emptiness slowly begin to come to me, there's one thing that I think about - continuing to love one woman. I want to find a 'life partner'. With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and shout for world peace from outer space." Maezawa's ideal candidate is aged 20 or above, single, and must be "always positive". She must also be interested in going into space. He tweeted: "Wanted! Why not be the 'first woman' to travel to the moon?" Sources: https://japantoday.com/category/national/fly-me-to-the-moon-japanese-billionaire-maezawa- seeks-girlfriend-for-spacex-voyage https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0006283442 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/13/national/former-zozo-fashion-retailer-yusaku- maezawa-seeks-girlfriend-2023-spacex-voyage/ Level 3 Japan tycoon needs "life partner" for moon visit – 16th January, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 2 WARM-UPS 1. LIFE PARTNERS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about life partners. Change partners often and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life? often / I love you / special / trip / moon / fashion / passenger / universe / tourist / documentary / female / space / loneliness / life partner / peace / ideal / single / first Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. THE MOON: Students A strongly believe the moon is the best place to go on a date; Students B strongly believe it isn't. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 4. DATES: How good are these places to go on a first date? What Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote. How Good? Why? The moon The movies An Italian restaurant A museum The beach A rock concert 5. LOVE: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "love". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 6. LIFE PARTNER: Rank these with your partner. Put the most important things for a life partner to have at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings. • money • kindness • dreams • good looks • energy • a good body • humour • same interests Level 3 Japan tycoon needs "life partner" for moon visit – 16th January, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 3 VOCABULARY MATCHING Paragraph 1 1. often a. A traveler on a bus, train, airplane, taxi, car, etc. other than the driver, pilot, or crew. 2. billionaire b. An act of going to a place and returning; a journey for pleasure. 3. trip c. A person who has money and other things worth at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc. 4. fashion d. A person who is traveling or visiting a place for fun and pleasure. 5. passenger e. Many times. 6. customer f. The making and marketing of new styles of clothes, hairstyles and cosmetics, etc. 7. tourist g. A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business. Paragraph 2 8. documentary h. The most perfect; most suitable. 9. loneliness i. Not married. 10. shout j. A person who is in a position to get a job, take an exam, win an election, etc. 11. ideal k. Sadness because one has no friends, or no one to talk to or be with. 12. candidate l. Good feelings and actions. 13. single m. A movie, a television or radio program, or photography using pictures or interviews with people about real events. 14. positive n. Say something very loudly; call out. Level 3 Japan tycoon needs "life partner" for moon visit – 16th January, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 4 BEFORE READING / LISTENING From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2001/200116-life-partner.html 1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F). a. A rich man wants people to love each other to the moon and back. T / F b. The billionaire in the article has many lovers. T / F c. The man wants to go to the moon with a woman in 2023. T / F d. The man will be the world's first ever space tourist. T / F e. The man made a documentary to try and find a special person. T / F f. The man said he is slowly feeling lonely and empty. T / F g. The man wants to find a woman who is at least 20 years old. T / F h. The man's ideal candidate doesn't have to be interested in space. T / F 2. SYNONYM MATCH: (The words in bold are from the news article.) 1. often a. isolation 2. special b. traveller 3. yet c. hoped for 4. passenger d. programme 5. on his own e. exceptional 6. documentary f. alone 7. loneliness g. optimistic 8. candidate h. frequently 9. positive i. applicant 10. wanted j. until now 3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.) 1. I love you to the moon a. from his fashion company 2. how strong their b. in going into space 3. join him on a c. documentary 4. Maezawa made his billions d. is aged 20 or above 5. He will be the universe's e. love is 6. a television f. outer space 7. feelings of loneliness g. and back 8. shout for world peace from h. and emptiness 9. Maezawa's ideal candidate i. trip to the moon 10. She must also be interested j. first space tourist Level 3 Japan tycoon needs "life partner" for moon visit – 16th January, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 5 GAP FILL From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2001/200116-life-partner.html People (1) ____________ say, "I love you to the moon and back" problem to tell someone special how (2) ____________ their love is. A own Japanese billionaire will go to the moon and back with his love. billions The only (3) ____________ is that he doesn't (4) ____________ often have a love. Yusaku Maezawa, 44, is looking for a "special someone" to join him on a trip to the moon in 2023. Mr Maezawa yet made his (5) ____________ from his fashion company Zozo Inc. universe's He has paid to be the very first private (6) ____________ to fly to strong the moon. He will be the first customer of Elon Musk's space travel passenger company SpaceX. He will be the (7) ____________ first space tourist. However, he does not want to go on his (8) ____________. He said he wants to "visit such a special place with someone special". Mr Maezawa has created a (9) ____________ documentary to look mine for a female friend to fly into space with. The documentary is website called "Full Moon Lovers". On a (10) ____________ for the TV in show, he wrote: "I'm 44 now. As (11) ____________ of loneliness ideal and emptiness slowly begin to come to me, there's one thing that I think about - (12) ____________ to love one woman.