ENGLISH 11. UNIT 15. READING

Teacher : Lê Thị Hồng Quế
Date: March 29
th
, 2013

I. BEFORE YOU READ
Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin
Pham Tuan
1. Who is the first human to fly into space?
2. Can you name the first humans to set foot on the
moon?
3. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

Part A: Reading

Vocabulary
1. Lift + off (v)
2. Orbit (n)
3. Cosmonaut
= Astronaut (n)
4. Weightlessness (n)
5. Crash (n)
phóng lên
quĩ đạo
phi hành gia
trạng thái không
trọng lượng
vụ rơi (máy bay)

II. WHILE YOU READ

Task 1
Paragraphs Headings
Paragraph 1 A. The tragic accident
Paragraph 2 B. The lift-off
Paragraph 3 C. Congratulations
Paragraph 4 D. A view on earth
Paragraph 5 E. Uncertainties
B. The lift-off
D. A view on earth
E. Uncertainties
C. Congratulations
A. The tragic accident

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?

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter

Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Sun

Question 1
How old was Gagarin when he
became the first human being
in space?
A. seven
B. seventeen
C. twenty – seven
D. seventy
Saturn

Question 2
How long was he in space?
A. 108 minutes
B. 12 minutes
C. at 9.07 a.m.
D. 27 years
Earth

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. How would the mind deal with the psychological
tension?
D. All are correct
Uranus

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
D. It was less than 17,000 miles per
hour
Question 4
Mars

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 still
enormous uncertainties.
D. Because the Earth is so beautiful.

Question 5
sun

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

hero?
A. His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.
B. The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was
given the name Gagarin.
C. Many cosmonauts were named after him.
D. Both A and B

Neptune

You get 10 points
without having to
answer any question

III. AFTER YOU READ
On 12
th
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

- Learn the new
words by heart.
- Copy all the
sentences into
notebooks.
- Prepare Lesson
2. Speaking


Lift off
Vinasat lifted off into space in 2008

Orbit
This is the orbit of the moon around the earth

Cosmonaut and Astronaut
cosmonaut
astronaut

weightlessness

crash
A plane crash