Trịnh Thị Mai Dung
Quang Trung secondary school
UNIT 10: SPACE TRAVEL
Lesson 4: SKILLS 1
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions.
Look at the pictures and answer the following questions.
Who is the first man to travel into space?
Who is the first Vietnamese man to take a space trip?
Who is the first man to walk on the moon?
Who is the first woman to visit the Mir space station?
It’s Gargarin
It’s Neil Amstrong
It’s Pham Tuan
It’s Helen Sharman
Vocabulary
weightless environment: môi trường không trọng lực
harmoniously (adv): 1 cách hài hòa
recall (v): nhớ lại
recount (v): thuật lại 1 cách chi tiết
effort (n): nỗ lực
equal (a): công bằng
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b. Answer the questions:
1. Who is Pham Tuan and
who is Christer Fuglesang?
2. What did Fuglesang think when he looked at Earth from space?
3. Do you think Pham Tuan enjoyed the food aboard the spacecraft? Why/Why not?
4. How did Pham Tuan’s family help him while he was in space?
5. What do the two astronauts think about the chance to fly into space?
6. What skills does Fuglesang think are important for an astronaut?
1. Who is Pham Tuan and who is Christer Fuglesang?


2. What did Fuglesang think when he looked at Earth from space?


3. Do you think Pham Tuan enjoyed the food aboard the spacecraft? Why/Why not?

4. How did Pham Tuan’s family help him while he was in space?

5. What do the two astronauts think about the chance to fly into space?

6. What skills does Fuglesang think are important for an astronaut?
b. Answer the questions.
- Pham Tuan is Viet Nam’s first astronaut, and Christer Fuglesang is Sweden’s first astronaut.
- He found that Earth didn’t look as big as he thought, no boundaries on Earth could be seen from space we should cooperate to take care of it.
- It seemed he didn’t enjoy it much since it wasn’t fresh.
- They talked to him when he was in space and that made him happy.
- They think the chance to fly to space is equal for everyone.
- He thinks teamwork, social skills, and foreign languages are important for an astronaut.