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...[r]
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* Work with a partner: Ask and answer the following questions.
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?
and
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I PRE READING:
- Orbit
- Cosmonaut
- Weightlessness
- Gravity
- ( to) lift off
* VOCABULARY:
Phóng lên (n) quỹ đạo
(n) Phi hành gia = astronaut (n) trọng lực
(n) trạng thái không trọng lực
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* Checking vocabulary :
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II WHILE READING:
Read the text about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to fly into space and then do the tasks that follow.
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 Congratulations
D A view on Earth
E Uncertainties
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Task 2. Play a game “lucky pictures”
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When did Yuri Gagarin lift off into space
aboard the Vostok 1 ?
On 12th April, 1961
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How old was Gagarin when he became the first
human being in space ?
He was 27 years old then
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How long was Gagarin in space ?
He was in space for 108 minutes
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What questions were raised before
Gagarin’s space flight ?
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 tension
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What was the speed of his spacecraft in
orbit around the Earth ?
It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
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Who wrote a telegram to Moscow to congratulate the success of Gagarin’s flight ?
U.S President John F Kennedy
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Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight ?
Because he died in a plane crash on a routine
training flight in March 1968
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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
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