ENGLISH 11. UNIT 15. READING

Who is the first human to fly into space?. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space3. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space light.. Question 3What q

I BEFORE YOU READ

Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin 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?

Part A: Reading

II WHILE YOU READ

Task 1

Paragraphs Headings

Paragraph 1 A The tragic accident

Paragraph 2 B The lift-off

II WHILE YOU READ

Task 2

1 How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being

in space?

2 How long was he in space?

3 What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space light?

4 What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the

Earth?

5 Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

6 What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national

hero?

Question 3

What question were raised before Gagarin’s

space flight?

A What would happen to a human being in space?

B How would the body react to the extreme

What was the speed of his

spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?

A It was more than 17,000 miles per

hour

B It was 17,000 miles per hour

C It was about 17,000 miles per

Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

A Because of a car crash.

B Because of a tragic accident.

C Because there were still

Question 6

What was done after Gagarin’s death to honor this national

hero?

A His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.

B The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was

given the name Gagarin.

C Many cosmonauts were named after him.

D Both A and B

Neptune

You get 10 points without having to answer any question

III AFTER YOU READ

On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian(1) _ became the first human being (2) _ Although his flight (3) _ only 108 minutes, its (4) _ made him a national hero He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (5) , and he was able to (6) _ 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) After his death, his

hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia

impossible

success

named after view

lasted

in space

gravity cosmonaut

- Learn the new words by heart.

- Copy all the sentences into notebooks.

- Prepare Lesson

2 Speaking

Lift off

Vinasat lifted off into space in 2008

Orbit

Cosmonaut and Astronaut

cosmonaut

astronaut

weightlessness

crash