Unit 15 Space conquest

The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name Gagarin to honour this national hero... You get 10 points without having to answer any question.?[r]

Warm - up

Watch this video and answer the following questions:

- What is the event about?

- Do you know anyone in the video?

Part A: Reading

I BEFORE YOU READ

Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin Pham Tuan

Lift off

Vinasat lifted off into space in 2008

This is the orbit of the moon around the earth

Cosmonaut and Astronaut

cosmonaut

astronaut

failure

Venture (n) = risk

A plane crash

I BEFORE YOU READ

6 sự không chác chắn

7 một cách chính xác

8 đối phó (với)

9 sự căng thẳng vềmặt tâm lý

10 sự thất bại

11 sự mạo hiểm

12 sự/vụ rơi (máy bay)

= exactly, correctly, accuratelystress on the mind

II WHILE YOU READ

Task 1

Paragraph 2 B The lift-off

II WHILE YOU READ

Task 2

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 light?

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?

Jupiter sao mộc Saturn sao

thổ

Uranus sao thiên

vương

Neptune sao hải vương

Pluto sao diêm

vương

III AFTER YOU READ

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

success

named after view

lasted

in space

gravity cosmonaut

CONSOLIDATION AND HOMEWORK

 CONSOLIDATIONS

 Vocabulary related to Space Conquest

 Some reading skills:

 Learn by heart the new words

 Complete doing all the tasks into

notebooks

 Prepare for the next lesson

Question 3

What question were raised before

Gagarin’s space flight?

A What would happen to a human being

in space?

B How would the body react to the

extreme changes in temperature?

C A, B and “ How would the mind deal

with the psychological tension?”

Question 4

What was the speed of his

spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?

A It was more than 17,000 miles

per hour

B It was 17,000 miles per hour

C It was about 17,000 miles per

hour

Question 5

Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

A Because of a car crash

B Because of a tragic accident

C Because there were a lot of

astronauts

B The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star

City, Russia, was given the name Gagarin

to honour this national hero.

C Both A and B

You get 10 points without having to answer any question

You get 10 points without having to answer any question

You get 10 points without having to answer any question