UNIT 15 - READING

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin DA. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin B... How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space.. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s spa

CHAU THANH HIGH SCHOOL

ENGLISH 11

WELCOME TO OUR CLASS – 11/5

Presented by : LÊ TRẦN KHẢ LOAN

WARM – UP : Choose the best answer:

1 Who is the first human to fly into space?

A Yuri Gagarin B Neil Armstrong C Valentina Tereshkova

2 Who are the first humans to set foot on the moon?

A Neil Armstrong and John Glenn B Pham Tuan and Buzz Aldrin

C Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin D Yang Liwei and John Glenn

D John Glenn

3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

A Pham Thanh Trung B Pham Tuan C Vo Nguyen Giap

A Yuri Gagarin

C Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

B Pham Tuan

Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST

READING

PRE – READING:

- conquest (n)

- cosmonaut (n) ['k zm n :tɔ ə ɔ ] = astronaut ['æstr n :tə ɔ ] :

Ex: Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong,… are the astronauts

nhà du hành vũ trụ

sự chinh phục, sự xâm chiếm

- psychological tension : sự căng thẳng tâm lý

- lift-off (n): Sự phóng (tên lửa, tàu vũ trụ)

- tragic accident : tai nạn thảm khốc

['kɔηkwest] :

- conquest (n)

- cosmonaut (n) ['k zm n :tɔ ə ɔ ]

= astronaut ['æstr n :tə ɔ ] :

- psychological tension :

- lift-off (n):

- tragic accident :

Decide these sentences are True or False:

1. _ Yuri Gagarin is the Russian cosmonaut

2. _ He became the first human in space in 1961

3. _ He died because of the technical failure of the spacecraft in 1968

Who is he?

He’s Yuri Gagarin

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WHILE - READING Task 1: Match the headings to the paragraphs:

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 3

Paragraph 4

Paragraph 5

A The tragic accident

B The lift-off

C Congratulation

D A view on Earth

E Uncertainties

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 questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?

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

5 Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new spaceflight?

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

1 2 3

LUCKY NUMBER

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

He was 27 years old

2 How long was he in space?

He was in space for 108 minutes

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

Lucky number: you’ll get 10 marks if you give the correct answer

Lucky number

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

It was more than 17,000 miles per hour

5 Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new spaceflight?

Lucky number: you’ll get 10 marks if you give the correct answer

Lucky number

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

After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero

1 He was 27 years old.

2 He was in space for 108 minutes

3 They were what would happen to a human being in space or how the

body would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind would deal with the psychological tension3

4 It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.

5 Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.

KEYS:

POST - READING

Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/phrases in the box into the blank:( Textbook: page 169 )

Keys:

1 cosmonaut

2 in space

3 lasted

4 success

5 gravity

6 view

7 impossible

8 named after

Ex: Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong,… are the astronauts.

The lift - off

The end!