Under the Moon Stage 1

Before Reading Before reAding chApter 4

Encourage students to speculate and to make

activities answers
guesses but do not tell them the answer. They will
Before reading activities (page 44) find out as they read that the answer is Zadak and
Activity 1 before reading Bel.
1 Yes 2 No 3 Yes 4 Yes 5 No 6 Yes 7 No 8 No chApter 4 And UNIVERSaL PLaNET NEwS on
pAge 27 while reading
Activity 2 before reading

Open answers. Encourage discussion about 1 What . . .? He opened the back gate of the prison for
different kinds of science-fiction stories (or films), Zadak.
and what they can sometimes tell us about the 2 Who . . .? Commander Zadak.
world and science today; for example, there are 3 What . . .? He wanted him to wait for Adai.
holes in the ozone layer today and perhaps in 4 Where . . .? To Earth Commander’s house.
the future, as in this story, they will get worse. If 5 Who . . .? Bel.
students choose the sentence ‘Science-fiction stories 6 Who . . .? Zadak.
never come true’, remind them that a hundred years 7 Where . . .? On Mars.
ago the idea of men walking on the moon was just chApter 5 while reading
another science-fiction story! 1 Gog (Earth Commander), to Rilla
2 Rilla, to Gog
While Reading 3 Kiah, to Captain Seru
4 Captain Seru, to Kiah
UNIVERSaL PLaNET NEwS on pAge 1, 5 Rilla, to Kiah
And chApter 1 while reading 6 Seru, to Kiah
1 People finished building the AOL on 1st January
Before reAding chApter 6
2222.
Encourage students to speculate and to make
2 Under the AOL the sun could not burn the Earth.
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will
3 In 2522 there were big holes in the AOL.
find out as they read that the answers are 3, 7, 8
4 Two years ago, Earth Commander sent Captain Seru
and 10.
to a weather ship because he was angry / she talked
to him about the AOL.
5 Captain Seru did not want to talk to Gog about the
AOL.
6 When Kiah and Rilla returned to Earth, they wanted
to visit Zadak, Commander of Australia.
chApter 2 And UNIVERSaL PLaNET NEwS on
pAge 12 while reading
1 Commander Zadak.
2 Kiah.
3 Two of the guards.
4 Adai.
5 Commander Zadak.
6 Earth Commander / Gog.
7 Adai.
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chApter 3 And UNIVERSaL PLaNET NEwS on

pAge 19 while reading
1 Zadak, to Kiah and Rilla
2 Rilla, to Bel
3 Bel, to Kiah and Rilla
4 Gog/Earth Commander, to Kiah and Rilla
5 Bel, to Kiah and Rilla
6 Commander Zadak, to the Universal Planet News

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 After Reading 15 ZAdAk: I can’t wait for you, Adai. You need to
finish the Moon colony.
9 AdAi: But the Moon colony is ready, and I’m going
Activity 1 after reading
to return to Earth next week.
1 Gog
13 ZAdAk: Next week, next week . . . Yes, come back
2 Kiah and Rilla
after Gog is dead – after I am dead too, perhaps.
3 Zadak
activities answers

4 AdAi: But I don’t want you to die. Earth needs you!

4 Bel
10 ZAdAk: And Earth is going to need you and the
5 Adai
Moon colony, too. Goodbye, Adai, and good
6 Bel
luck!
7 Gog
8 Zadak Activity 3 after reading
9 Kiah and Rilla Words across: satellite, gun, crazy, burn, forest, shoot,
10 Adai fire, guard, prison, destroy
11 Bel Words down: earth, planet, airport
12 Kiah and Rilla
S A T E L L I T E I
13 Gog
M G G U N O I P N G
14 Bel
15 Adai E C R A Z Y T L O L

16 Zadak A E B U R N A A V A
Possible sentences: R F O R E S T N E I
• Gog was Earth Commander. He was not interested in T T S H O O T E H R
the AOL or in planet Earth because he wanted to go H F I R E I S T D P
to Mars. E A D G U A R D P O
• Kiah and Rilla worked on Ship OM-45. They went to L P R I S O N A N R
Australia and talked to Zadak about the holes in the E T D E S T R O Y T
AOL.
• Zadak was Commander of Australia. He talked to 1 ‘I’m going to leave this dead planet.’
Gog about rain because he needed rain for the new 2 Gog (Earth Commander) said this to Rilla.
forests. 3 To Mars.
• Bel was Gog’s wife and she liked expensive things. She 4 On the Moon colony.
saw Zadak’s gun and shouted for the guards, and then
she ran across the room to Gog. Activity 4 after reading

• Adai was Commander of the Moon colony. He
returned to Earth from the Moon colony because he
wanted to help his brother and his friends.
Activity 2 after reading
If students need help with this, encourage them
to look at links in the language; for example: the
forest in number 11 links with the forest in number
3. They should also notice when one speaker calls
the other speaker by name.
7 ZAdAk: Adai? Zadak here.
11 AdAi: Zadak! How are you? How’s the forest?
3 ZAdAk: The forest is dying, because there is no rain.
I talked to Earth Commander this morning.
14 AdAi: What did he say? Is he going to give you
money?
2 ZAdAk: No – he doesn’t want to listen. Your brother
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1 Gog left Earth and went to Mars. The rain changed
the planet and Gog built more towns. He sent
spaceships to Earth and many people came to live
on Mars.
2 Gog waited at Kisangani airport. But before his
spaceship was ready, the fires destroyed Kisangani.
Gog died in the fire. And so he never went to Mars.
3 Earth’s forests burned for months and many people
died. Then the people on the Moon colony began
to work on the Artificial Ozone Layer. After many
years, they returned to Earth and began to help the
planet.
4 Adai lived on the Moon colony with Rilla, Kiah and
their friends. They were happy there, but they never
returned to Earth because the fires destroyed the
planet.

was there, too, at Earth Commander’s office. Activity 5 after reading

6 AdAi: Kiah? Why was Kiah there? Open answers.

12 ZAdAk: He was there to talk to Gog about the AOL
– and now he’s in prison 888.
8 AdAi: He’s in prison now? Gog is crazy!
5 ZAdAk: Yes, he is. So I’m going to kill him
tomorrow.
1 AdAi: Tomorrow? No, Zadak! Wait for me!

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