Warmer-up
What’s his name?
Yuri Gagarin
Where is he from?
Russia
Why is he famous ?
He is the first human to fly into space.
Look at the picture and answer the questions:
SPACE CONQUEST
UNIT 15
Lesson 1: Reading
Before you read
Vocabulary
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* conquest (n) [`kɔηkwest]:
sự chinh phục
* orbit (n) /`ɔ:bit/
quỹ đạo
* cosmonaut (n) /`kɔzmənɔ:t/
phi hành gia, nhà du hành vũ trụ
* weightlessness (n) /`weitlisnis/
sự không có trọng lượng
* gravity (n)/ `græviti/
trọng lực, lực hấp dẫn

* psychological tension (n)
[,saikə`lɔdʒikl `ten∫n]:
áp lực tâm lý
(astronaut (n) /æstrənɔ:t/)
*venture (n) [`vent∫ə]
sự mạo hiểm
* feat (n) [fi:t]:
chiến công
1. Orbit (n) /`ɔ:bit/
VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Cosmonaut (n) /`kɔzmənɔ:t/
= astronaut /`æstrənɔ:t/
Weightlessness (n) /`weitlisnis/
VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Gravity (n)/ `græviti/

Checking vocabulary: Match the words in A with Vietnamese meanings in B
1.E
2.C
3. D
4. F
5. H
6. B
7. A
8.G
Groupwork
1m.
Task1: Predict whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1. Gagarin was a cosmonaut of the United States.
2. His flight lasted 120 minutes.
3.The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth was more than 17,000 miles/hour.
4. When Gagarin was 27 years old, he became the first person being in space.
5. After he died, his name , Gagarin, became the name of his hometown of Gzhatsk and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia.
Individual work
1m.
While you read
Task 2: Read the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1. Gagarin was a cosmonaut of
2. His space flight lasted 120 minutes.

3.The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth was more than 17,000 miles/hour.
4. When Gagarin was 27 years old, he became the first person being in space.
5. After he died, his name ,Gagarin, became the name of his hometown of Gzhatsk and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia.
The United States.
F
Russia
108 minutes
T
T
T
F
Pairwork
4m.

Task 3: Read the passage again and answer the questions
Groupwork
5m.
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Lucky Numbers!
3
Lucky Number !
10 marks
3. What was the effect of his success?
The success of his flight attracted worldwide attention and made him a hero.
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1. When did Gagarin first fly into space?
At 9.07 a.m Moscow time on 12th April, 1961.
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2. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?
They were :
“what would happen to a human being in space?”
“How the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature?”
“How the mind would deal with the psychology tension?”.
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4. Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.
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Lucky Number !
10 marks

The answers:
After you read
What do these numbers tell you?
1961
Yuri Gagarin flew into space in 1961.
27
He was 27 when he became the first human being in space.
108
His flight lasted 108 minutes.
1968
He died in 1968.
Talk about a Vietnamese hero
Pham Tuan
- When and where was Pham Tuan born?
When did he first become a national hero?
When did he fly into space?
How long did his space flight last?
How many times was he awarded the title “ Hero”?
When did he retire?
Groupwork
3m.
Talk about a Vietnamese hero
Pham Tuan

Pham Tuan was born on February 14th , 1947 in Kien Xuong, Thai Binh.
He became a national hero in 1973.
He was the first Vietnamese and Asian human to fly into space in 1980 in Intercosmos of the Soviet Union.
His flight lasted 7 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes.
He was awarded the title “ Hero” 3 times.
( 2 times of Vietnam and one of the Soviet Union)
He retired in December 2007 with army rank: lieutenant-general ( trung tướng)

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On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1)_______ became the first human being (2)_______. Although his flight (3) _____ only 108 minutes, its (4) ______ made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (5)______, and he was able to (6)____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 (7) _________. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were (8) ________him.
cosmonaut
in space
lasted
success
gravity
view
impossible
named after
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/phrases in the box into the blanks.
HOMEWORK.
Do task 1( textbook).
Learn new words by heart.
Rewrite task 3.
- Prepare for the next period (speaking).