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I. BEFORE YOU READ
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Pham Tuan
The first Vietnamese to fly into space
Pham Tuan
Neil Armstrong
One of the first humans to set foot on the moon
 Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space
Unit 15 Space conquest
Period 1: Reading
Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
Reading
PRE- READING
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Psychological tension /,saikə`lɔdʒikl `ten∫n / (n):
VOCABULARY
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Sự căng thẳng về tâm lý
Venture (n) = risk
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Việc mạo hiểm
Orbit (n) /`ɔ:bit/
Đường bay của một hành tinh, ngôi sao, mặt trăng... quanh một thiên thể khác; quỹ đạo
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2. Cosmonaut (n) /`kɔzmənɔ:t/
= astronaut /`æstrənɔ:t/
phi hành gia, nhà du hành vũ trụ
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Gravity (n)/ `græviti/
Lực hấp dẫn, trọnglực
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Lift off (v) [`liftɔ:f]
Bay lên, phóng lên
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3. Weightlessness (n) /`weitlisnis/
Tình trạng không trọng lực
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Weightlessness (n) /`weitlisnis/
Lift off (v) [`liftɔ:f]
Bay lên , phóng lên
Tình trạng không trọng lực
Gravity (n) / `græviti/
Cosmonaut (n) /`kɔzmənɔ:t/
= astronaut /`æstrənɔ:t/
Phi hành gia
Lực hấp dẫn , trọng lực
Psychological tension /,saikə`lɔdʒikl `ten∫n / (n):
Venture (n) = risk
Việc mạo hiểm
Orbit (n) /`ɔ:bit/
Quỹ đạo
sự căng thẳng về tâm lý
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Weightlessness (n) /`weitlisnis/
Lift off (v) [`liftɔ:f]
Bay lên , phóng lên
Tình trạng không trọng lực
Gravity (n) / `græviti/
Cosmonaut (n) /`kɔzmənɔ:t/
= astronaut /`æstrənɔ:t/
Phi hành gia
Lực hấp dẫn , trọng lực
Psychological tension /,saikə`lɔdʒikl `ten∫n / (n):
Venture (n) = risk
Việc mạo hiểm
Orbit (n) /`ɔ:bit/
Quỹ đạo
sự căng thẳng về tâm lý
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While - reading
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Task 1: Match the headings to the paragraph
P.1
P.2
P.3
P.4
P.5
The tragic accident
The lift-off
Congratulations
A view on Earth
uncertainties
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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…”
congratulate
4. C
5.Gagarin could have made another space flight if a tragic accident had no….
A tragic accident
5. A

Task 2: True (T) or False (F).
Gagarin lifted off into space on 12th April 1960
2. Gagarin became the second person to eat and drink in weightlessness
3. Gagarin’s flight attracted worldwide attention and made him a hero
4. Gagarin could have made another space flight in March 1968

5. The first words spoken from space were : “I see the Earth. It’s so beautiful”.
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1961
first
He died in a plane crash in that year
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LUCKY PLANET

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POST - READING
The sun
The moon
Uranus
Mars
The Earth
The star
pictures
How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
A. seven
B. seventeen
C. twenty – seven
D. seventy
Chose the best answer
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Gagarin made another space flight in March 1968.
TRUE OR FALSE ?
TRUE
FALSE
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The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around
the Earth was…….
Fill in the blank:
more than 17.000 miles per hour.
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Was Gagarin a cosmonaut of the United States ?
YES or NO ?
 No, he wasn’t.
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His flight lasted………..
A. 1 hour and 40 minutes
B. 1 hour and 58 minutes
C. 1 hour and 48 minutes
Chose the best answer
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Lucky Planet
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CONGRATULATIONS
Some pictures about space conquest
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A dog named Laika
First living being in space ( 3.11.1957)
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Artificial Satellite
the first Vietnamese satellite lifted into space
It’s Vinasat 1
Homework:
Learn new words by heart.
2.Do "After you read" part . (p.169)