UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST
( Lesson 1: Reading
( Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to
scan read for specific ideas
skim read for specific ideas
( Materials: Textbook, picture, chalk,…
Time
Content
T’s& Ss’ activities

5’
I. Warm-up (Matching)
Match the people with their job
Name Job
1. Gagarin a. football player
2. David Beckham b. scientist
3. Van Cao c. astronaut
4. Marie Curie d. musician

* Today we are going to read about Gagarin – a soviet astronaut.
- T asks Ss to work in groups and match the names with the jobs.
- Ss write the answers on board.
- Give feedback


- T leads-in the new lesson.


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II-Pre-reading
* Pre-teach vocabulary
- conquest (n): chinh phục
- astronaut (n)= cosmonaut (n): phi hành gia
- lift off: phóng lên
- uncertainty (n): điều nghi ngờ
- orbit (n): quỹ đạo
- psychological (adj) thuộc về tâm lý.
- feat (n): chiến công, chiến tích







* Pre reading
Questions
1. Who is the first person to fly into space? – Gagarin
2. Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon? – Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin – American astronauts
3. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space? – Pham Tuan

- T presents or elicits the meaning of these words from the class. (When teaching these words, T helps Ss to pronounce them correctly modeling)
-Elicits the new words by using different techniques.
-Asks the sts to repeat(chorus (individually) and copy down the new words in to the notebook
- T gives corrective feedback.


- T asks Ss to answer questions in group.
- call Ss to answer if they know.

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III.While -reading
Task 1: Match the headingto the paragraphs .
Paragraph 1 – B. The lift off
Paragraph 2 – D. A View on Earth
Paragraph 3 – E. Uncertainty
Paragraph 4 – C. Congratulation
Paragraph 5 – A. The tragic accident

Task 2 : Answer the questions :
1. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
( He was 27 years old then.
2. How long was he in space?
( He was in space in 108 minutes.
3. What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight?
( They were - what would happen to a human being in space
- how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature
- how the mind would deal with the psychological tension.
4. What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
( It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.
5. Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
( Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.
6. What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national hero?
-> His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.
- T asks Ss to read the headings first.
- Then read the test to answer.
- call Ss to write answers on board.
- give feedback.


- T asks Ss to work in pairs and answers the questions.
- T calls on some pairs to act out the activity in front of the class.
- T checks the answers in front of the class as a whole.


10’
IV. Post-reading : (gap- fill)
Fill each blank in the summary of the reading with a suitable group of words from the box below.
impossible named after lasted gravity
success view in space cosmonaut
Keys:
1. cosmonaut 5. gravity
2. in space 6. view
3. lasted 7. impossible
4. success 8. named after

- T has Ss work independently and fill I each blank with a suitable group of words from the text .
- T asks Ss to read the summary carefully before doing the task.
- T has Ss compare their answers with a friend.
-n T calls on some Ss to read the completed summary.
- T feedbacks and gives correct answers.



V.Homework :
Rewrite the following sentences from the cues given.
Gagarin/ not/ get / home/ if / there/ technical failure.
Although