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WHO IS HE?
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WHO IS HE?


Yuri Gagarin

Lesson 1: Reading
Unit 15: Space conquest
I.Pre-reading:
* New Words:
-Conquest (n) /`kɔηkwest/

-Psychological (a)
-Cosmonaut (n)
-Orbit (n)
-Precise (a)
-Enormous (a)

[`kɔzmənɔ:t]
[`ɔ:bit]
[pri`sais]
[i`nɔ:məs]
[,saikə`lɔdʒikl]
Tension (n) [`ten∫n]
Lift-off (n) [lift ɔ:f]
Congratulation (n) [kən,grætju`lei∫n]
Uncertainty (n) [ʌn`sə:tnti]
Spacecraft (n) [`speis`krɑ:ft]
Hero (n) [`hiərou]
Telegram (n) [`teligræm]
Astronaut (n) [`æstrənɔ:t] = cosmonaut (n)
Failure (n) [`feiljə]
II. WHILE READING
1.Listen the tape.
2. Task 1
3. Task 2
1, Listen the tape
2.Task 1: Match the headings to the paragraph

1. At 9.07 a. m Moscow time on 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off into space abroad the Vosstok 1…
1.B.
2... 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!”
2.D
3. Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enormous uncertainties
3.E

Lifted
off
View the earth
Uncertainties

4.. .. We congratulate you and the Soviet scientists and engineers who made this feat possible…”
4.C

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….
5.A
congratulate
A tragic accident
3,Task 2: Read the passage a gain and choose (T)or correct answers/ (F) for incorrect answers
-1,Gagarin was a cosmonaut of the United States T/F
-2, His flight on 12th April, 1961 lengthened 120 minutes
T/F
-3,The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth was 17,000 miles/hour T/F
- 4, Gagarin was 27 years old, he became the first person being in space T/F
F
F
T
T
-5, Every one could know precisely what would happen to him before Gagarin’s space flight (paragraph 3) T/F

-6, Gagarin could have made another pace flight T/F

-7 , After he died, his name – Gagarin became the name of his hometown of Gzhatsk and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia. (paragraph 5) T/F
F
F
T
III. POST- READING
Task 3 (Work in 2 group- PLAY GAME-LUCKY FLOWERS)
Fill in the blank in the sentences with suitable words below based on the passage (page 167)


impossible (n) named after lasted(v) gravity(n)

success (n) view(v) in space (adv) cosmonaut(n)
Lucky flowers
1
6
8
2
3
4
5
6
8
3
6. Unfortunately, a plane crash in March 1968 made Gagarin’s desire of revisiting space (7)…….
4. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero(5)…………..and he was able to (6)……..the Earth in a
(5)Gravity (6) view
5,he was the first person to be able to(5)……the Earth in a way that no one had done before.
view
1. On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1)……….. Became the first human being(2) ……
(1) cosmonaut (2) in space
(7)impossible
2, Although his flight (3)…….only 108 minutes, its(4)……….made him a national hero.
(3)Lasted (4) success
8. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were()…………..him
(8) Named after
On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian
(1) cosmonaut became the first human being
(2) in space. Although his flight (3) lasted only 108 minutes, its (4) success made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (5) gravity and he was able to
(6) view 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) impossible. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were (8) named after him
IV. CONSOLIDATION.
Homework:
Learn vocabulary by heart
- Read the text again and prepare for next lesson
Thanks for your attention