UNIT 10. SPACE TRAVEL
SKILLS 1

Look at the pictures and answer the
following questions.

Look at the pictures and answer the
following questions.
Who
Who
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is
Who
is
is
the
the
the
isfirst
the
first
first
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first
man
man
woman
to
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travel
man
to
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into
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to take
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the
moon?
a
Mir
space
space
trip?
station?

It's
Gargarin
It's
Neil
Amstrong
It's Pham
Helen
Sharman
It's
Tuan

Vocabulary

- weightless environment: môi trường không
trọng lực
- harmoniously (adv): một cách hài hòa
-recall (v): nhớ lại
-recount (v): thuật lại
- effort (n): nỗ lực
- equal (a): công bằng

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a

b

b. Answer the questions:
1. Who is Pham Tuan and
who is Christer Fuglesang?
2. What did Fuglesang think when
he looked at Earth from space?
3. Do you think Pham Tuan
enjoyed the food aboard the
spacecraft?
Why/Why
not?
4. How did Pham Tuan's family
help him while he was in space?
5. What do the two astronauts
think about the chance to fly into
space?
6. What skills does Fuglesang
think are important for an
astronaut?

b. Answer the questions.
1. Who is Pham Tuan and who is Christer Fuglesang?
- Pham Tuan is Viet Nam's first astronaut, and Christer Fuglesang is Sweden's
first astronaut.

2. What did Fuglesang think when he looked at Earth from space?

- He found that Earth didn't look as big as he thought, no boundaries on Earth
could be seen from space we should cooperate to take care of it.

3. Do you think Pham Tuan enjoyed the food aboard the spacecraft?
Why/Why not?
- It seemed he didn't enjoy it much since it wasn't fresh.

4. How did Pham Tuan's family help him while he was in space?
- They talked to him when he was in space and that made him happy.

5. What do the two astronauts think about the chance to fly into space?
- They think the chance to fly to space is equal for everyone.

6. What skills does Fuglesang think are important for an astronaut?
- He thinks teamwork, social skills, and foreign languages are important for an
astronaut.

In my opinion, I think an astronaut needs some
following qualities and skills. Firstly, they must have
good health, otherwise, they cannot survive in space.
Secondly, they have to possess deep knowledge about
engineering and the spaceship system so that they can
solve any emergency in the spaceship. Last but not least,
cooperating skills hold no less importance in working as
an astronaut because only one astronaut cannot finish a
trip into space, he/she have to know how to work together
with other members of the crew to succeed in finishing
their mission.

One crew member feels extremely homesick.
She/He can make phone calls to family and friends on
Earth.
She/He can exercise, read a book, listen to music, or play
some games.
Other crew members can talk to her/ him, or together they
can do something fun in their free time, for example having
a 'space party'.
When looking at the monitoring system you discover a
strange object approaching Earth.
The crew can contact the Mission Control Centre for help.
They can start watching the object, record its movements,
and report back to Earth.

Homework
-Learn the new words by heart.
-Prepare for the next lesson