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Part A: Reading
SPACE CONQUEST
Unit 15
I. BEFORE YOU READ
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Pham Tuan
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
weigh (v):
nặng
weight (n):
Cân nặng
weightless (a):
Không trọng lượng
weightlessness (n):
She weighs 50 kg
Her weight is 50 kg
uncertainty
certain (a): chắc chắn
uncertain (a): không chắc chắn
certainty (n): sự chắc chắn
uncertainty (n)
failure
Venture (n) = risk
crash
A plane crash
BEFORE YOU READ
Vocabulary
Conquest (n)
Lift + off (v)
Orbit (n)
Cosmonaut
Astronaut (n)
Weightlessness (n)
Uncertainty (n)
Precisely (av)
Deal + with (v)
Psychological tension
Failure (n)
Venture (n)
Crash (n)
/‘kɔɳkwest/
/lift/
/`ɔ:bit /
/‘kɔ:zmənɔ:t /
/æstrənɔ:t/
/‘weitlisnis/
/ʌn`sə:tnt
/pri`saisl/
/di:l/
/,saikə`lɔdʤikəl `tenʃn /
/`feiljə /
/`ventʃə /
/kræʃ/




1. sự chinh phục
2. phóng lên
3. quĩ đạo
4. phi hành gia
5. trạng thái không trọng lượng
6. sự không chác chắn
7. một cách chính xác
8. đối phó (với)
9. sự căng thẳng về mặt tâm lý
10. sự thất bại
11. sự mạo hiểm
12. sự/vụ rơi (máy bay)
= exactly, correctly, accurately
stress on the mind
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 sao thủy
Venus sao kim
Earth
Mars sao hỏa
Jupiter sao mộc
Saturn sao thổ
Uranus sao thiên vương
Neptune sao hải vương
Pluto sao diêm vương
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
CONSOLIDATION AND HOMEWORK
CONSOLIDATIONS
Vocabulary related to Space Conquest
Some reading skills:

HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart the new words
Complete doing all the tasks into notebooks
Prepare for the next lesson
Question 1
How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
A. When he was 25
B. When he was 26
C. When he was 27
Question 2
How long was
he in space?
A. 108 minutes
B. 105 minutes
C. 100 minutes
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. A, B and “ How would the mind deal with the psychological tension?”
Question 4
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
Question 5
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 a lot of astronauts
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 to honour this national hero.
C. Both A and B
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