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Vocabulary:
1.conquest
(n)[`kɔηkwest]sự xâm chiếm,sựchinh phục
2.cosmonaut
(n) [`kɔzmənɔ:t] nhà du hành vũ trụ

= astronaut (n) [`æstrənɔ:t]

3.(to) set on the moon
:đặt chân lên mặt trăng
4. orbit
(n) [`ɔ:bit]đường bay của một hành tinh, ngôi sao, mặt trăng... quanh một thiên thể khác; quỹ đạo
(v) di chuyển theo quỹ đạo quanh cái gì

6.weightlessness
(n) [`weitlisnis] tình trạng phi trọng lượng, tình trạng phi trọng lực
5. plane crash
(n) tai nạn máy bay
Questions
1. Who is the first human to fly into space?
2. Can you name the first humans to set on the moon ?
3. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?
Yuri Aleseyevich Gagarin
(1934 - 1968)
1. The first human to fly into space is Yuri Aleseyevich Gagarin.
Neil Armstrong ( 1930)
Buzz Aldrin ( 1930)
2. The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Phaïm Tuaân
(1947)
3. The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan
Task1. Match the headings to the paragraphs
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
A. The tragic accident
B. The lift-off
C. Congratulations
D. A view on Earth
E. Uncertainties
Task 2.Read the passage again and answer the questions:
1. 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?
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Mars
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Answers
1. 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 psycholigical 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.
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/phrases in the box into the blanks.
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On 12thApril,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, 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.
named after
lasted
gravity

success
view
in space
cosmonaut
Learn vocabulary in unit 15 and do all exercises in reading