unit 15 space conquest reading

The questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight were “what would happen to a human being space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind w[r]

Welcome to our class

11B3

Presented by Ms Thuy Dinh

Instructor: Lê Kim Luông

Trainee teacher: Trần Thùy Linh

Unit 15: Space Conquest

A - Reading

1 space (n): không gian

2 conquest (n): chinh phục

3 human = human being (n): con người

4 orbit (n, v): quỹ đạo, di chuyển quanh quỹ đạo

5 cosmonaut = astronaut (n): phi hành gia

6 Weightlessness (n): tình trạng mất trọng

lượng

7 tension (n): tình trạng căng thẳng

8 psychological (adj): tâm lý

9 venture = adventure (n): việc mạo hiểm

10 (to) lift off = launch (v): bay lên, phóng lên

11 (to) react (v): phản ứng lại

12 (to) deal with = solve (v): giải quyết

13 Failure >< success (n): thất bại >< thành

Match one name with the suitable picture

NEIL ARMSTRONG

Answer the questions

“Do you know Gagarin?”

“Could you tell me about him?”

read the text in your textbook to more understand clearer about him

Task 1 Match the headings to the paragraphs

Paragraph 1 A The tragic accident

Paragraph 2 B The lift-off

Task 2

1 Gagarin was 27 years old when he became the first human being in space

2 He was in space for 107 minutes

3 The questions were raised before Gagarin’s space

flight were “what would happen to a human being space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in

temperature or how the mind would deal with the

psychological tension”

4 The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth was more than 15,000 miles per hour

5 Gagarin made a new space flight

6 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

Task 2

1 Gagarin was 27 years old when he became the first human being in space

2 He was in space for 107 minutes

3 The questions were raised before Gagarin’s space

flight were “what would happen to a human being space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in

temperature or how the mind would deal with the

Task 2

4 The speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth was more than 15,000 miles per hour

5 Gagarin made a new space flight

6 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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Task 3 Complete the summary of the reading passage by

putting the words/phrases in the box into blanks

impossible named after lasted gravity

success view in space cosmonaut

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

Thank you for your attention

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