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UNIT 15. SPACE CONQUEST
PART A. READING
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MATCH ONE NAME WITH A SUITABLE PICTURE
PHAM TUAN
NEIL ARMSATRONG
GAGARIN
BUZZ ALDRIN
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LESSON A: READING
YURI GAGARIN
NEIL ARMSTRONG
BUZZ ALDRIN
PHAM TUAN
* WORK WITH A PARTNER: ASK AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1. WHO IS THE FIRST HUMAN TO FLY INTO SPACE?
2. CAN YOU NAME THE FIRST HUMANS TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON?
3. WHO IS THE FIRST VIETNAMESE TO FLY INTO SPACE?
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VOCABULARY
- lift off (v), (n) = fly (into)= take off: rise into the air from the ground
Phóng lên, cất cánh, bay vào vũ trụ
- Orbit (n) :
quỹ đạo
- Cosmonaut (n)
(n) Phi hành gia
= astronaut (n)
- Gravity
trọng lực
[`ɔ:bit]
[`kɔzmənɔ:t]
[`æstrənɔːt]
/`grævəti/ (n)
: Việc mạo hiểm
: liều, mạo hiểm
- Spacecraft (n) [`speis`krɑ:ft]: Spaceship (n):
Tàu vũ trụ
TASK 1. MATCH THE HEADINGS TO THE PARAGRAPHS
1. PARAGRAPH 1 A. THE TRAGIC ACCIDENT
2. PARAGRAPH 2 B. THE LIFT-OFF
3. PARAGRAPH 3 C. CONGRATULATIONS
4. PARAGRAPH 4 D. A VIEW ON EARTH
5. PARAGRAPH 5 E. UNCERTAINTIES
1. At 9.07 a.m. Moscow time on 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off into space aboard the Vostok 1. Approximately 12 minutes later, the first human being was in orbit around the Earth at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour. His flight lasted 108 minutes.
2. The 27- year- old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in weightlessness. From his window in space, Gagarin was able to view the earth in a way that no human beings had done before. The first words spoken from space were: “I see the Earth. It’s so beautiful.”
3. Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enormous uncertainties. No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space. How would the body react to the extreme changes in temperature? How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? If there was a technical failure, Gagarin might never get back to the Earth.
4. The success of Gagarin’s flight attracted worldwide attention and made him a hero. In a telegram to Moscow, U.S. President John F. Kennedy wrote, “The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their satisfaction for the safe flight of the astronaut in man’s first venture into space. We congratulate you and Soviet scientists and engineers who made this feat possible. …”
5. Gagarin could have made another space flight if a tragic accident had not occurred. He died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.
UNIT 15. SPACE CONQUEST
LESSON A: READING
TASK 2. ANSWER THE QUESTION
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?

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UNIT 15. SPACE CONQUEST
1. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
He was 27 then.
2. How long was he in space?
He was in space for 108 minutes.
3. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space light?
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. What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
5. What couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
6. What was done after Gagarin’s death to honor this national hero?
His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.
The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name Gagarin to honor this national hero.
UNIT 15. SPACE CONQUEST
LESSON A: READING
LUCKY PLANETS
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
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His hometown & the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were……...him.
A. NAMED AFTER
B. TAKE AFTER
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Lucky Planet

Learn the new words by heart
Summarize the main points of the reading text
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