English 11 UNIT 15 Reading

PHAM TUANGAGARIN BUZZ ALDRIN NEIL ARMSTRONG Match ONE name with a suitable picture...  The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.. Buzz Aldrin The first humans to

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TURE

PHAM TUAN

GAGARIN

BUZZ ALDRIN

NEIL ARMSTRONG

Match ONE name with a suitable picture.

 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

1 Who is the first human to fly into space?

I Pre – reading :

Work in pair : Answer the following questions

Buzz Aldrin

 The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

2 Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?

Neil Armstrong

Pham Tuan

 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan

Pham Tuan & Gorbotco

3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

Read the text about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

1 Orbit (n) /'ɔ:bit/

VOCABYLARY

Đường bay của

một hành tinh,

ngôi sao, mặt

trăng quanh một

thiên thể khác;

quỹ đạo

2 Cosmonaut (n) /'kɔzmənɔ:t/ /

= astronaut /'æstrən :t ɔ /

phi hành gia, nhà du

hành vũ trụ

3 Weightlessness

VOCABULARY

Sự không có trọng lực

Gravity (n)/ 'græviti/ Sức hấp dẫn, trọnglực

1 Orbit (n) /'ɔ:bit/ Đường bay của một hành tinh, ngôi sao, mặt trăng

quanh một thiên thể khác; quỹ đạo

2 Cosmonaut (n) /'kɔzmənɔ:t/ = astronaut /'æstrənɔ:t/phi hành gia, /

nhà du hành vũ trụ

3 Weightlessness (n) /'weitlisnis/Sự không có trọng lực

4 Gravity (n) / 'græviti/ Sức hấp dẫn, trọnglực

5 Psychological tension /,saikə'l d ikl ɔ ʒ 'ten∫n / (n): sự căng thẳng về tâm lý

6 Venture (n) /'vent∫ə/:mạo hiểm

7 Feat (n) /fi:t/: kỳ công, thành quả

8 Deal with (v): đối phó, giải quyết, xử lý

9 Rename (v) /ri:'neim/ đặt tên mới, đổi tên, thay tên (người, đường phố )

= name after

VOCABYLARY

II While – reading

Task 1 Match the headings to the paragraphs

1 Paragraph 1 A The tragic accident

2 Paragraph 2 B The lift-off

3 Paragraph 3 C Congratulations

4 Paragraph 4 D A view on earth

5 Paragraph 5 E Uncertainties

II While – reading

Task 2 : Read the passage again and answer the questions

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

space?

2 How long was he in space?

3 What question were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?

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

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

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

-> He was 27 then.

-> He was in space for 108 minutes.

• what would happen to a human being in space

•How the body react to the extreme changes in temperature

•How the mind would deal with the psychological tension

-> It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.

-> Because he died in a plane crash on a routine flight in March 1968 -> After his death, his hometown of Gzatsk, the Cosmonaut Traning

III Post – reading

Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the

given words/phrases into the blanks

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 were (8)

…… … ….him

impossible named after lasted gravity

Artificial Satellite

 Yi So-yeon - South Korea's First Woman Astronaut Lifts Off Into Space on 8 April, 2008

South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, left, and Russian cosmonaut, commander Sergei Volkov, speak prior to launch in

Kazakhstan, 8 Apr 2008