Unit 15. Space conquest

POST-SPEAKING: 5 minutes Task 3: individual work -T asks Ss choose 3 events in Task 2 and use the - Ss listen to the teacher.. - Ss work in pairs.[r]

Preparing date: 30/03/2018

Teaching date: 06/04/2018

Class: 11A1

Apprentice teacher: Bùi Thị Bích Ngọc.

Instructor: Mr Lê Văn Huy

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST

B SPEAKING

I Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

+ practice asking and answering questions on given information

+ talk about historical events in the space conquest

II Language and skills:

- Language: vocabulary related to space exploration

- Skills: communicative skills

III Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative approach.

IV Teaching aids: Textbooks, board, chalk, pictures, laptop, ….

V Procedures:

WARM UP (6 minutes):

Guessing game: Guessing the name of the

picture

- T prepares a picture and divides class into 2

teams

- T asks Ss to choose a number at random and

answer the corresponding questions Once

the question is correctly answered, one piece

of the picture is opened

- T gives the question:

What is the picture about?

- T give comments and leads Ss into the new

lesson

- Ss listen to the instructions

- Ss do as what teacher asks

Expected answers:

Spacecraft

PRE-SPEAKING (10 minutes)

-T introduces some new words and phrases

-T asks Ss to read aloud the words in chorus

and individually

-T asks Ss to copy down the words into

their notebook

Vocabulary:

- The USSR: Liên Xô (cũ): Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics

- launch /l :nt∫/ (v): phóng (tàu vũ tr ), h ɔ ụ ạ

thu (tàu thuy n)ỷ ề

- manned /mænd/ (adj): có người lái

- spacecraft /'spe skr ft/ (n): tàu vũ trɪ ɑː ụ

- milestone /'mailstәʊn/ (n): m c l ch số ị ử

- project /'pr d ekt/ (n): d án.ɔ ʒ ự

- artificial satellite/, :ti'fi∫ l 'sæt lait/ (n): ɑ ə ə

v tinh nhân t oệ ạ

- Sputnik /'sp tnik/ (n): v tinh nhân t o c aʊ ệ ạ ủ

Nga

- living being (n): sinh v t ậ s ng ố

Structures:

- T teaches Ss how to make and answer the

questions

- T gives examples:

1 What did you play yesterday evening?

=> I played computer games

2 When does our mother go to work?

=> She goes to work at 6 o'clock

3 Where have you got your ruler?

=> I've got it in my pencil case

-T asks Ss to give the structure

Form:

Question word+Auxiliary+Subject+Verb+Rest?

Subject+Auxiliary+Verb+Rest.

A list of verbs that function as auxiliaries:

be (am, are, is, was, were, being, been), can,

could, dare, do (does, did), have (has, had,

having), may, might, must, need, ought, shall,

should, will, would.

- Ss listen and take notes

-Ss listen to the teacher and say aloud the words

- Ss copy down the words into the notebook

WHILE-SPEAKING (23 minutes)

Task 1: Work in groups

- T helps Ss read the passage in textbook on

page 170 and underline important

information to rearrange the questions and

answer them

- T asks Ss to work in groups of 6 Ss in 2

minutes

- T calls on some Ss to practice in front of the

class

- T gives feedbacks

Questions:

1 What/ the name/ is/ of/ China’s first

manned spacecraft?

2 What/ of / the astronaut/ the name /is?

3 How/he/ when/ / into space/old/ he /

flew/ was?

4 How important/ of China/ flight/ the

successful / is?

5 How many/ independently/ manned space

flights/ countries in the world/ have been /

able to carry out? What are they?

Task 2: Work in groups.

Ss take turns to talk about the important

events in space exploration.

- T teaches Ss how to speak out the dates

- T reads the example and what students are

going to do

- T asks Ss to read the task to make sure

whether they understand the events

- T divides the Ss into 8 groups Each group

talks about an event given on page 171 of the

textbook

- T calls on some representatives to talk about

the events in front of the class

and do the task

- Ss practice in front of the class

- Ss listen and answer

Expected answers:

1 What is the name of China’s first manned spacecraft?

=> The name of China’s first manned spacecraft is “Shenzhou 5”

2 What is the name of the astronaut?

=> His name’s Yang Liwei

3 How old was he when he flew into space?

=> He was 38 years old

4 How important is the successful flight of China?

=> The successful flight marked a milestone in China’s space project

5 How many countries in the world have been able to carry out

independently manned space flights? What are they?

=> There are 3 countries They are Russia, The US and China

- Ss listen to the teacher

- Ss do as what teacher asks

- Ss correct the mistakes

- T gives comments and feedbacks.

Example: On 4th October, 1957, the USSR

launched its first artificial satellite, Sputnik,

into space It marked the beginning of Space

Age

On , …… became the first

into space He / She / It

POST-SPEAKING: (5 minutes)

Task 3: individual work

-T asks Ss choose 3 events in Task 2 and use the

information to talk about important events in

space explorations

Ex:

On 4th October, 1957, first satellite- Sputnik

marked beginning of Space Age Then, on 3rd

November, 1957, a dog named Laika that was

abroad Sputnik 2 became first living being in

Space 4 years later, in 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a

Russian cosmonaut became first human in

space

- T gives comments and feedbacks

- Ss listen to the teacher

- Ss work in pairs

- Ss correct the mistakes

- Ss discuss and present

HOMEWORKS: (1 minute)

- T asks Ss to learn by heart the vocabulary

- T asks Ss toprepare the next part

- Ss take notes

- Ss learn by heart the vocabulary