WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
Teacher : Lê Thị Hồng Quế
Date: March 29th, 2013
I. BEFORE YOU READ
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Pham Tuan
Who is the first human to fly into space?
Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?
Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

Part A: Reading
SPACE CONQUEST
Unit 15
Vocabulary
Lift + off (v)
2. Orbit (n)
3. Cosmonaut
= Astronaut (n)
4. Weightlessness (n)
5. Crash (n)
phóng lên
quĩ đạo
phi hành gia
trạng thái không trọng lượng
vụ rơi (máy bay)
II. WHILE YOU READ
Task 1
B. The lift-off
D. A view on earth
E. Uncertainties
C. Congratulations
A. The tragic accident
II. WHILE YOU READ
Task 2
How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
How long was he in space?
What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space light?
What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national hero?

Lucky Planets
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Sun
Question 1
How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
A. seven
B. seventeen
C. twenty – seven
D. seventy
Saturn
Question 2
How long was he in space?
A. 108 minutes
B. 12 minutes
C. at 9.07 a.m.
D. 27 years
Earth
Question 3
What question were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?
A. What would happen to a human being in space?
B. How would the body react to the extreme changes in temperature?
C. How would the mind deal with the psychological tension?
D. All are correct
Uranus
What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
A. It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
B. It was 17,000 miles per hour
C. It was about 17,000 miles per hour
D. It was less than 17,000 miles per hour
Question 4
Mars
Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

A. Because of a car crash.
B. Because of a tragic accident.
C. Because there were still enormous uncertainties.
D. Because the Earth is so beautiful.

Question 5
sun
Question 6
What was done after Gagarin’s death to honor this national hero?
A. His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.
B. The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name Gagarin.
C. Many cosmonauts were named after him.
D. Both A and B

Neptune
CONGRATULATIONS!
You get 10 points
without having to
answer any question
III. AFTER YOU READ

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
impossible
success
named after
view
lasted
in space
gravity
cosmonaut
HOMEWORK
- Learn the new words by heart.
- Copy all the sentences into notebooks.
- Prepare Lesson 2. Speaking
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
GOODBYE EVERYBODY
Lift off
Vinasat lifted off into space in 2008
Orbit
This is the orbit of the moon around the earth
Cosmonaut and Astronaut
cosmonaut
astronaut
weightlessness
crash
A plane crash