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Period 90 Thursday, April 04th, 2013 UNIT 15 SPACE CONQUEST Warm-Up
Who Are They?:
WHO ARE THEY? WHAT IS THIS? Before Reading
New Words:

1. cosmonaut (= astronaut) (n): ||nhà du hành vũ trụ|| 2. to lift off (v): ||bay lên: bốc lên|| 3. orbit: ||vòng quỹ đạo|| 4. weightlessness: ||tình trạng không trọng lượng|| = gravity 5. to view (v.): ||nhìn thấy|| 6. historic (a.): ||có tính lịch sử || 7. enormous (a.) ||bao la; mênh mông|| 8. uncertainty [-ties] (n.): ||sự nghi ngại|| 9. precisely (adv.) ||chuẩn xác || 10. to react to (v.) ||phản ứng (với...) || 11. psychological tension (n.): ||tình trạng căng thẳng tâm lý|| 12. technical failure (n.) ||sự hỏng hóc về kỹ thuật|| 13. extreme changes (n.): ||thay đổi đột ngột quá mức|| 14. venture (n.): ||chuyến mạo hiểm|| 15. feat (n.) ||thành tích; chiến công|| 16. tragic (a.) ||bi thảm|| LISTEN AND REPEAT THEN GIVE THE EQUIVALENT IN VIETNAMESE TO EACH OF THESE WORDS. Preliminary Questions:
1. Who was the first man to go into space? 2. When did he go into space? 3. Where does he come from? 4. How did he go there? 5. Did he stay long in space? 6. What do you the persons who go and work in space?
1. He was ||Yuri Gagarin||. 2. He went into space ||on April 12th,1961||. 3. He comes from ||Russia||. 4. He went there by ||spaceship||. 5. No. he stayed there for ||108 minutes||. 6. We call them ||astronauts||. While Reading
Text Reading:
Task 1: GAP-FILLING

Paragraph 1 --> ||B. The lift-off|| Paragraph 2 --> ||D. A view on Earth|| Paragraph 3 --> ||E. Uncertainties|| Paragraph 4 --> ||C. Congratulations|| Paragraph 5 --> ||A. The tragic accident|| TASK 1. Match the headings to the paragraphs. Task 2:
TASK 2. Read the passage again and answer the questions.
1. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space? ||He was 27 (years old).|| 2. How long was he in space? ||(He was in space) for 108 minutes.|| 3. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight? ||They were what would happen to a human being in space or how the ||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. Why 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 honour this national hero? ||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.|||| Task 3:

1. Gagarin was [a] ||27 years old|| when he became the first human being in space. 2. He was in space for [b] ||108 minutes||. 3. Before the flight, people were [c] ||uncertain|| about what would happen to a [d] ||human being|| in space or how the the body would [e] ||react to|| the extreme changes in temperature and how the mind would deal with the [f] ||psychological tension||. 4. The [g] ||speed|| of his spacecraft in [h] ||orbit|| around the Earth was more than [i] ||17,000 miles|| per hour. 5. Gagarin couldn’t make a new space flight because he [j] ||died|| in a plane crash on a [k] ||routine|| training flight in March 1968. 6. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was [l] ||renamed|| Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this [m] ||national hero||. TASK 3. Fill in the gaps with the missing words. After Reading
Gap-Fill:
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/phrases in the box into the blanks. (a) impossible - (b) named after - (c) lasted - (d) gravity (e) success - (f) view - (g) in space - (h) cosmonaut - (i) flight
On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1) ||h|| became the first human being (2) ||g||. Although his flight (3) lasted only 108 minutes, its (4) ||e|| made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (5) ||d||, and he was able to (6) ||f|| 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) ||a||. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were (8) ||b|| him. Homework:
HOMEWORK 1. Learn all the new words by heart. 2. Do the exercises again.