{"id":743,"date":"2026-10-26T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/lesson-plans\/asteroid-mining-a2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:06:19","slug":"asteroid-mining-a2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/lesson-plans\/asteroid-mining-a2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Mining (A2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far away in space there is a huge metal asteroid that some people say is worth more money than all the countries on Earth. Scientists want to study asteroids, and some companies dream of mining them. This lesson looks at treasure in space and gets students talking about money, space travel and what they would do with an asteroid. This A2 version uses a short, simple text and practises vocabulary for money and space, with will and won&#8217;t for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Level:<\/strong> A2 \u00b7 <strong>Time:<\/strong> 45 to 90 minutes. Pick the activities that suit your class. They work in almost any order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lesson Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/reveal\/picquiz.php?w=4ed0f9a1\">Warmer: What Is This?<\/a> &#8211; Reveal the picture tile by tile. What is it? Where is it? What is it made of? (Answer: an artist&#8217;s view of 16 Psyche, a metal asteroid between Mars and Jupiter that some say is worth $10,000 quadrillion.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/categorise\/activity.php?w=18528fe8\">Vocabulary: Space, Mining or Money?<\/a> &#8211; Students sort 15 words about asteroid mining into three groups. Good before reading to check what students already know.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/sentence\/match.php?w=8bcd446a\">Vocabulary: Pre-teach the Key Words<\/a> &#8211; Match 10 words from the reading to their meanings (worth, dig, piece, bring back, price, cheap\u2026).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cloze\/exercise_hint.php?w=2ee818a0\">Reading: Treasure in Space<\/a> &#8211; A graded text with 10 gaps, a word bank and slow audio.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/cards\/cardset.php?w=9f2dab58\">Discussion: Treasure in Space<\/a> &#8211; 10 easy questions about space travel, money, gold and living in space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/ranking\/exercise.php?w=72b32a1f\">Speaking: Why Go to the Asteroids?<\/a> &#8211; Students rank nine reasons for sending missions to asteroids, from getting rich to protecting Earth and looking for life, then compare with a partner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teacher Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For a shorter lesson, use the warmer, the reading and the discussion cards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The reading has slow audio. Play it after students have tried the gaps, so they can listen and check.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grammar focus: will and won&#8217;t for the future (It will arrive in 2029. It won&#8217;t dig for metal.). Ask students to make three sentences about space in 2050.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go through the ranking reasons together first, as some are long.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow-up: students imagine they own an asteroid and write five sentences about what they will do with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teaching a stronger group? Try the <a href=\"\/hub\/lesson-plans\/asteroid-mining-b2\/\">B2 version of this lesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far away in space there is a huge metal asteroid that some people say is worth more money than all the countries on Earth. Scientists want to study asteroids, and some companies dream of mining them. This lesson looks at treasure in space and gets students talking about money, space travel and what they would &#8230; <a title=\"Asteroid Mining (A2)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/lesson-plans\/asteroid-mining-a2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Asteroid Mining (A2)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-743","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}