WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
Warm up
NAME PEOPLE OR THINGS
IN THE PICTURES.
The moon
The earth
Pham Tuan
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
Yuri Gagarin
SPACE CONQUEST
Saturday, March 28th, 2009

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST

PERIOD 91. READING
I. Pre-reading:

Activity1: Questions-answers
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Answer the questions below:
1. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly
into space?


2. Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?





3. Who is the first human to fly into space?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Yuri Gagarin
Pham Tuan
2. Activity 2: Collecting information.
Gagarin flew into space on ………………………….
He was ………years old when he became the first human being in space.
…………………………………….. made him a hero.
He died in a plane crash in ……………..
a.
b.
c.
d.
March 1968.
The success of his flight
12th April, 1961
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3. Activity 3: Vocabulary.
Match the words / phrases in column A with their definitions or synonyms in column B.
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4 .Activity 4. Gap-filling:
Complete the sentences with the correct form of one of the words / phrases in column A above.
China ……………………its first manned spacecraft into space on October 15th , 2003.
Who is the first Russian ….………………to fly into space?
Have you ever seen an ………………….monster?
“ ……………is mother of success”.
Students often have ……….……………………… before examinations.
My close friend died in a …………. accident two years ago.


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cosmonaut
psychological tension
lifted off
tragic
Failure
enormous
II. While-reading:
Activity 1: Main ideas
Match the headings
to the paragraphs (Task 1).
Match the headings to the paragraphs. (Task 1)

Paragraph 1 A. The tragic accident
Paragraph 2 B. The lift-off
Paragraph 3 C. Congratulations
Paragraph 4 D. A view on Earth
Paragraph 5 E. Uncertainties




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2. Activity2: Questions-answers.
Answer the following questions (Task 2):
How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
2. How long was he in space?
3. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?
4. What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the earth?
5. Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
6. What was done after Gagarin ‘s death to honour this national hero?


Shuttle
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He was 27 then.
2. He was in space for 108 minutes.
3. They were what would happen to a human being in space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind would deal with the psychological tension.
4. It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.
6. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin and the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.
III. Post-reading:
1. Activity 1: Gap-filling
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/ phrases in the box into the blanks.

On 12th April,1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian ( ) …………………became the first human being ( )……………….. Although his flight ( )…………...only 108 minutes, its ( )………………..made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero ( ) ………………….., and he was able to ( )……………….the Earth in a way that no one had done before. Unfortunately, a plane crash in March 1968 made Gagarin’s desire of revisiting space ( )……………. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were ( )………….............him.
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cosmonaut
named after
impossible
view
gravity
success
lasted
in space
2. Activity 2: Talking about Yuri Gagarin, using the given numbers below.

108
27
1968
1961
Yuri Gagarin flew into space on 12th April,1961.
He was 27 years old when he became
the first human being into space.
His flight lasted 108 minutes.
He died in a plane crash in March 1968.

IV. HOME WORK
1. Reviewing vocabulary learnt today.
2. Translating the text into Vietnamese.