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OUR CLASSS
Trang 2A.READING
Trang 3Warm-up: Match One name with a suitable picture.
Trang 4Warm-up: Match One name with a suitable picture.
Trang 5Ask 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?
I.Before you read
UNIT 15
Trang 6*PRE-TEACH VOCABULARY
astronaut
Trang 7Weightlessness (n)
Gravity (n)
Trang 8không trọng lượng căng thẳng tâm lí
sự cố kỹ thuật
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II.While you read
Read the text about Yuri Alekseyevick Gagarin, the first
human to fly into space and then do the tasks that follow.
Reading
Trang 10Task 1. Match the headings to the paragraphs
UNIT 15
Trang 11Task 1. Match the headings to the paragraphs
1 B 2 D 3 E 4 C 5 A
Trang 121 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 space flight?
6 What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national hero?
Task 2 Read the passage again and answer the questions
Reading
UNIT 15
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1 He was 27 then
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 psychology tension
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
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
1 He was 27 then
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
5 Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
1 He was 27 then
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
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
1 He was 27 then
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
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 psychology tension
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
1 He was 27 then
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
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 psychology tension
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
1 He was 27 then
6 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of his national hero
2 He was in space for 108 minutes
2 He was in space for 108 minutes
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III.After you read
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/ phrases in the box into the blanks.
Trang 16On 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
success view in space cosmonaut
Trang 17Talk about a Vietnamese hero
Pham Tuan was born on February
14th , 1947 in Kien Xuong, Thai Binh
He became a national hero in 1973
He was the first Vietnamese and Asian human to fly into space in 1980 in
Intercosmos of the Soviet Union
His flight lasted 7 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes
He retired in December 2007 with army rank: lieutenant-general
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Trang 18IV.HOMEWORK IV.HOMEWORK
Remember to do your homework
1 Learn by heart the vocabulary
2 Summarize the reading passage
3 Prepare for the next period (speaking)
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1 How old was Gagarin when he became the
first human being in space?
- He was 27 then
Trang 212 How long was he in space?
- He was in space for 108 minutes
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3 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 psychology tension
Trang 234 What was the speed of his spacecraft
in orbit around the Earth?:
- It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
Trang 245 Why couldn’t Gagarin make a
new space flight?
Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
Trang 256 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 Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name
of his national hero
Trang 271. At 9.07 a.m Moscow time on 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off inti space aboard the Vostok 1 Approximately 12 minutes later, the first human beings was in orbit oround the Earth at a speed
of more than 17,000 miles per hour His flight lasted 108 minutes
B The lift - off
Trang 282. The 27- year- old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in weighlessness From his window in space, Gagarin was able to see the earth in a way that no human beings had done before The first words spoken from space were: “I see the Earth It’s so beautiful.”
D A view on Earth
Trang 293. Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enomous uncertainties No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space How would the body react to the streme changes in temperature? How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? If there was a technical failure, Gagarin might never get back to the Earth
E Uncertainties
Trang 304. The success of Gagarin’s flight attracted worldwide attention and made him a hero In a telegram to Moscow, US President John F Kennedy wrote, “The peopple 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.”
C Congratulations
Trang 315. 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 After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero
A The tragic accident
Trang 321 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
Trang 33Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin
2 The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Trang 34Pham Tuan
3 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan.
Trang 35What do you say when your friend do something good?
- Congratulations!
15 letters
Trang 37What do you call it? - Sp a ce
5 letters
Trang 38What’s it?
8 letters
Trang 39What’s this? - C r ash
5 letters
Trang 40What can you see?
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