Unit 15 Space conquestreading

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* Warm up :*

PHAM TUAN

GAGARIN

BUZZ ALDRIN

NEIL ARMSTRONG

Match ONE name with a suitable picture.

 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

1 Who is the first human to fly into space?

I Pre – reading : Work in pair : Answer the following questions

Buzz Aldrin

 The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

2 Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?

Neil Armstrong

Pham Tuan

 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan.

Pham Tuan & Gorbotco

3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

• VOCABULARY

venture (n) /'vent∫ə/ adventure feat (n) /fi:t/ results

deal with (v) sovle (v)

orbit (n) /'ɔ:bit/

lift off (n) /'lift'ɔ:f

cosmonaut (n) /'kɔzmənɔ:t/ /

= astronaut /'æstrənɔ:t/

Weightlessness (n) /'weitlisnis/

Gravity (n)/ 'græviti/

1 Orbit (n) /'ɔ:bit/

2 Lift off (n) /'lift'ɔ:f/

3 Cosmonaut (n) /'kɔzmənɔ:t/ = /

astronaut /'æstrənɔ:t/

4 Weightlessness (n) /'weitlisnis/

5 Gravity (n) /'græviti/

6 Venture (n) /'vent∫ə/

7 Feat (n) /fi:t/

8 Deal with (v)

VOCABULARY

Read the text about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

II While – reading

Task 1 Match the headings to the paragraphs

II While – reading 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 question were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?

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

5 What couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

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

-> He was 27 then.

-> He was in space for 108 minutes.

• what would happen to a human being in space

•How the body react to the extreme changes in temperature

•How the mind would deal with the psychological tension

-> It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.

-> Because he died in a plane crash on a routine flight in March 1968 -> After his death, his hometown of Gzatsk, the Cosmonaut Traning Center at Star City, Russia was given the name of the national hero.

III Post – reading

Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the

given words/phrases into the blanks

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

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