11 u 15 SPACE CONQUEST A.reading

Monday, March 29th, 2010.

Welcome to our class

11c6
Teacher: Thai


Human
fly

moon

conquest

space
set foot

speed

cosmonaut

flight

hero

orbit

scientist

accident

Earth
crash

honour


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Teachers
engineers
cosmonauts
1. Who is the first human to fly into space?
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
2. Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
3. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?
Pham Tuan
Neil Armstrong
1

Yuri Alekseyevich
Gagarin
2

Pham Tuan
3

Spacecraft
Space Shuttle


True Or False
1. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin lived
in USA

F

2. Gagarin’s historic flight was on
12th April,1961.

T

3. Gagarin became a hero then.

T

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin


Task 1. Match the headings to the paragraphs
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5

A. The tragic accident
B. A view on Earth.
C. Uncertainties
D. The lift off
E. Congratulations


Task 2 . Read the passage again- 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 questions were raised before Gagarin’s flight ?
4. What was the speech of Gagarin’s 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 ?


Lucky numbers

1

5

2

6

3

7

4

8


1. He was 27 then
2. He was in space for 108 minutes
3. They were what would happen to a human being in
space or how the body would react to the extreme
changes in temperature or how the mind would deal
with the psychological tension
4. It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine
training flight in March 1968
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


Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting
the words/ phrases in the box into the blanks
impossible
lasted
gravity
named after

success
view
in space
cosmonaut
On 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1)……………… became
the first human being (2)….…………. . Al though 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.


Tragic accident


c

c


Home work

Remember the information about
Gagarin
Rewrite the tasks
Prepare B. Speaking

Thanks for attention !
GOOD BYE !


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1


1

2


3. What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour
this national hero ?
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


4. Why couldn’t Gagarin
make a new space flight?
Because he died in a plane
crash on a routine training
flight in March 1968


5. What was the speech of

Gagarin’s spacecraft in
orbit around the Earth?
It was more than 17,000
miles per hour.


6. How old was Gagarin
when he became the first
human being in space?
He was 27 then


7. How long was he in space?
He was in space for 108
minutes


8. What questions were raised
before Gagarin’s flight ?
They were what would happen
to a human being in space or
how the body would react to
the extreme changes in
temperature or how the mind
would deal with the
psychological tension


Yuri Gagarin is ……………. human to
fly into space

A. the first B . the second C. the third


Yuri Gagarin’s flight into
space lasted ….............
………………
A.108 seconds B. 108 minutes
C. 9 hours 7minutes