Giáo án điện tử Tiếng Anh 11 Unit15: Space conquest Part A: Reading

Unit 15: Space ConquestA - Reading... Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Pham Tuan1.. The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin?. The first human to fly into sp

Welcome to our lesson

Note: Each picture relates to a

star or a planet.

• Vietnamese name : 1 point

• English name : 2 points

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GAME: GUESS THE WORD GAME: GUESS THE WORD

NEEDLE STAR

3 HOÀNG THỊ THANH VY

EXAMPLE

Sao Kim

TREE Jupiter – Sao Mộc STARS

4

1

MARS - Sao hỏa

5

2

THE SUN

6

3

THE EARTH

9

6

Unit 15: Space Conquest

A - Reading

Work in pairs: Answer the questions

Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Pham Tuan

1 Who is the first human to fly into space?

2 Can you name the first humans to set foot on

the moon?

3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

1 Who is the first human to fly into space?

2 Can you name the first humans to set foot on

the moon?

3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

1 The first human to fly into space is

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

1 The first human to fly into space is

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin

2 The first humans to set foot on the

moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Pham Tuan

3 The first Vietnamese to

fly into space is Pham

Tuan.

Eg: Vinasat-1 lifted off into space in 2008.

Lift-off /'lift-ɔ:f/ (v.p)

Eg: This is the orbit of the moon around the Earth.

Orbit /'ɔ:bit/ (n)

cosmonaut /‘ kɔ:zmənɔ:t/

= astronaut (n)

/æstrənɔ:t/

E.g: Pham Tuan is a Vietnamese astronaut.

/‘weitlisnis/

Weightlessness

/‘weitlisnis/

E.g: I called him names, but he didn’t react.

React /ri:'ækt/ (v):

Tension /'tenʃn/ (n): a feeling of nervousness

Failure /'feiljə/ (n)

A plane crash

Crash /kræʃ/ (n,v) : an accident

1 Lift off /'lift-ɔ:f/ (v.p) : phóng lên, đưa lên

2 Orbit /'ɔ:bit/ (n) : quỹ đạo

3 cosmonaut = astronaut (n):

nhà du hành vũ trụ

4 weightlessness (n) : không trọng lượng

5 react /ri:'ækt/(v) : tác động lại

6 tension /'tenʃn/(n) : căng thẳng

7 failure /'feiljə/ (n) : sự cố, thất bại

8 crash /kræʃ/ (n) : tai nạn

1 Lift off /'lift-ɔ:f/ (v.p) : phóng lên, đưa lên

2 Orbit /'ɔ:bit/ (n) : quỹ đạo

3 cosmonaut = astronaut (n):

nhà du hành vũ trụ

4 weightlessness (n) : không trọng lượng

5 react /ri:'ækt/(v) : tác động lại

6 tension /'tenʃn/(n) : căng thẳng

7 failure /'feiljə/ (n) : sự cố, thất bại

8 crash /kræʃ/ (n) : tai nạn

VOCABULARY

II While you read

- Read the text about Yuri

Gagarin, the first human to fly into space

- Read the text about Yuri

Gagarin, the first human to fly into space

2 The 27- year- old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in weightlessness From his window in space, Gagarin was able to view the earth in a way that no human beings had done before….

3 Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enormous uncertainties No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space How would the body react to the extreme changes in temperature?

4 … “The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their satisfaction for the safe flight of the astronaut in man’s first venture into space

We congratulate you and Soviet scientists and engineers who made this feat possible …”

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….

WRAPPING UP: Choose the best answer

1 Yuri Gagarin was training to become a _

A engineer B cosmonaut C scientist

2 On April 12th, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the _ human to orbit Earth.

B first B second C third

3 The name of Gagarin spacecraft was _.

C Vinasat 1 B Vostok 1 C Voyager 1

4 Yuri Gagarin died in a before he could travel in space a second time.

A car accident B disease C plane crash

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- Learn new words by heart.

- Summarize the main points of the passage.