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Robert Campbell & Lindsay Clandfield

English for the Alien Invasion

ENGLISH FOR THE ALIEN INVASION

By Robert Campbell & Lindsay Clandfield
Contents
3
Introduction
4
How to use this book
6
UNIT 1 MAKE CONTACT
7
UNIT 2 CHECK SECURITY
8
UNIT 3 DESCRIBE THE SHIP
9
UNIT 4 DO NOT PANIC
10
UNIT 5 EXPLORE
11
Alien invasion flash cards (1)
12
UNIT 6 CALL THE PRESIDENT
13
UNIT 7 CONTACT YOUR FAMILY
14
UNIT 8 MEET THE ALIEN LEADER
15
UNIT 9 TRY TO ESCAPE
16
UNIT 10 SAVE THE WORLD
17
Alien invasion flash cards (2)
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Answer key

INTRODUCTION

This short guide is an essential phrase book for the kind of English

In recent years, as English has spread to all corners of the world,

you might need to survive an alien invasion. Youll find units to

there has been a proliferation of English for specific purposes.

help you initialize contact, describe the alien ship, call for

There are now varieties of English taught for all manner of

reinforcements, meet an alien leader, and escape from an alien

situations, from legal and medical English to English for military

abduction. Our hope is that this manual will help us all be more

purposes and law enforcement. There is business English, English

prepared to meet other life forms and coordinate a response.

for academic purposes, English for tourism, and the list goes on.
English is the world language, and it must meet the various and

THE AUTHORS

complex needs of the world.

Robert Campbell has written graded readers about

Until now, however, there has been a notable absence in the field

extraterrestrials (Next Door, Helbling), time travel (The

of the different varieties of English being taughtthe kind of

essential English needed for emergency, life-threatening

Time Capsule, Helbling), and the supernatural (Owl Hall,

Macmillan). Obsessed by the science-fiction genre from a very

circumstances, a basic English for a situation that requires people

early age, Robert has created many classroom activities related to

to communicate in order to survive one of the most dramatic

aliens and alien abduction for the magazine iTs for Teachers.

events in human history.

Lindsay Clandfield has taught English to people who

An alien invasion

claim to have been abducted by aliens in Mexico, Spain,

Humans have long wondered if we are alone in the universe. The

the UK, and Canada. Although he has never seen an

day we get a definite answer to that question might not be when

alien or alien ship before, he knows its probably just a question of

we discover alien life, but when it discovers us. The idea of an

time. He also has over twenty years of experience fighting aliens

alien invasion has been part of our collective conscious for

in various video games.

hundreds of years, but how prepared are you for when it

Lindsay and Robert are also the brains behind the first ebook in

happens? Will you be able to communicate when the situation

the Extreme Language Teaching series: English for the Zombie

calls for it?

Apocalypse.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

Alien invasion flash cards

This book is suitable for low-level (A1 or A2) English learners. Each

There are two sets of flash cards that cover vocabulary for an alien

unit represents around forty-five minutes of class time.

invasion (after unit 5) and human resistance (after unit 10). There

This book is divided into ten units. Over the course of the units,

are several ways you can use these pages in class:

students follow the adventures of several people as they realise Earth

Learn the words

is being invaded by aliens. Each of the ten units focuses on a specific

Students match the words in the middle of the page to the

area of language or vocabulary. Each unit contains four sections:

pictures. Then they cover the words with a piece of card and test

1 Get ready

each other by pointing to pictures and asking Whats that?

The unit begins with a short warm-up activity to introduce some of

Flash cards

the useful language and the situation.

Students cut up the pictures and write the words on the back.

2 The story

They use these as flash cards to test each other on the vocabulary.

Students listen to a short scene from the story of an alien invasion

Memory game

and answer a simple question about it. They then follow a script of

Print two copies of each page and cut out the pictures. Students

the scene and listen for information thats missing from the script

put all the pictures face down. They take turns playing a memory

which helps them to answer a comprehension question.

game. They pick up a card, say the word and then pick up another

3 The phrases

card. If the cards match, they keep the pair.

Students listen and repeat key phrases from the scene.

Story game

4 Your turn

Cut up the pictures and put them face down in two piles. Students

Finally, students do a simple exercise with language from the story.

take two cards from one pile and two cards from the other. They

Then they use the story and the language to create and role-play

have to make a short story or prepare a scene from an alien

their own conversation in a similar situation.

invasion that includes the pictures they chose.

All the audio is
available as an mp3
download.

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MEET THE ALIEN LEADER
1. Put the words in order to make messages from the aliens.
a) Take your us leader to .
b) is planet our This now .
c) peace come We in .

THE STORY

THE PHRASES
4. Listen and repeat the useful phrases.
Meeting the alien leader
Welcome to my ship.
We come in peace.
They want to take our world.
You're making a big mistake

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GET READY

2. Read and listen to the story. What message from exercise 1

does the alien leader want Dani to send?
Alien leader: Welcome to my ship. I am sorry for your ...
inconvenience.
Dani: Who are you? I want to leave and I want my phone.
Alien leader: Give the Earth boy his communication device.
You will send our message to your people
Dani: What's the message?
Alien leader: We come in peace.
Dani: Is it true?
Alien leader: Of course it isn't true. This is our planet now.
Dani: OK. I can video the message and upload it.
Alien leader: Good.
Dani: This is Dani Black. I'm a prisoner on the alien ship. They
are not here in peace. They want to take our world.
Alien leader: You're making a big mistake, Earth boy. A big
mistake. He's escaping. Stop him!

Other useful phrases

I want to leave.
I'm a prisoner.
Stop him!

5. Circle the correct pronoun.

Dani: And if (1) my/their people do not accept
(2) their/your conditions?
Alien leader: Then (3) they/their lives are finished.
This is (4) our/your world now. (5) Your/You have no choice.

YOUR TURN

6. Prepare a conversation. Use the story to help you.

Student A: You are the alien leader. Give a message to B to
record.
Student B: You are the alien's prisoner. Prepare a message to
send to the world.

3. Listen again. How does Dani end his video message?

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ALIEN INVASION FLASH CARDS

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contact EXPERIMENT
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satellite dish planet
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