Unit 15: Space conquest

Name of teaching: N«ng Quèc Huy.(0974144195)
Date of teaching : 31 /03/2011.
School :Son Duong High school.
Class :11B1
PERIOD 89 : Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
Lesson 1: Reading
A. Objectives:
1. Aim: Reading a passage about space conquest
2. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:
- Summarize the main idea of the paragraph.
- Know the first human to fly into space
- Learn the meaning of the words
- Answer the questions
3. Skill-based: Reading
B. Teaching aids:

- Textbook, handouts, picture ,…
C. Teaching method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative approach
D. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm up:
- Show some picture about space,
spaceship and ask questions:
Give some questions:
1.What can you see in there pictures?
2.What is his job?
3. Would you like pilot/astronaut? Why
do you like it?
- Lead in the new lesson.
II. New lesson:

1. Pre - reading.
a. Discuss the pictures (p.166).
a. The first Vietnamese astronaut.
b. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
Ask Ss to look at the pictures in the
book and answer the questions
- Look at the pictures and answer
the questions.
1. Picture 1: It’s a spaceship
Picture 2: Gagarin .
2. Gagarin is a pilot/ astronaut
3. - I like pilot because I want to
travel everywhere.
- I like astronaut because I want to
the moon/fly in the space
Look at the pictures in your book
Give answers:
1- Who is the first human to fly into
space?
2- Can you name the first human to set
foot on the moon?
3- Who is the first Vietnamese fly into
space?
b. Vocabulary:
Introduce some new words and write on
the board.
- lift off (v)
- cosmonaut (n)
- launch (v)
- precisely (adv)

- psychological (adj )
- deal with
- tension (n)
- venture (v)
- feat (n)
Read the words and ask Ss to repeat in
chorus then individually.
2.While-reading
Task 1: Match the heading to the
paragraphs:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to match the
heading to the paragraphs
Paragraph 1 A. The tragic accident
Paragraph 2 B. The lift - off
Paragraph 3 C. Congratulation
Paragraph 4 D. A view on Earth
Paragraph 5 E. Uncertainties

- Listen and give feedback.
Task 2: Answer the question:
-Ask Ss to read the passage individually
and do task 2 in pairs.
1. The first human to fly into space is
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
2. The first human to set foot on the
moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin.
3. The first Vietnamese fly into space is
Pham Tuan/ It was Pham Tuan.

Give the meaning
- Practice reading vocabulary in chorus
then individually.
- Listen and take notes.
- Work in pairs to match the heading to
the paragraphs
The answer:
Paragraph 1 B. The lift - off
Paragraph 2 E. Uncertainties
Paragraph 3 D. A view on Earth
Paragraph 4 C. Congratulation
Paragraph 5 A. The tragic accident
Read the passage individually and do
task 2 in pairs.
- Call on some Ss 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 space flight?
4. What was the speed of his spacecraft
in orbit around the Earth?
5. Why couldn't Gagarin make a new
spaceship?
6. What was done after Gagarin's death
to honor this national hero?
- Corrects and give comments.
3. Post - reading
Complete the summary of the reading
passage by putting the words/ phrases

in the box into blanks.
Ask Ss to work in groups to fill in the
blank.
- Correct mistakes
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 and 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
Gzahatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the
Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City,
Russia, was given the name of this
national hero.

Work in group:
- Use the words/phases complete
passage.
- The answer:
1. cosmonaut 2. in space
3. lasted 4. success
5. gravity 6. view
7. impossible 8. named after
III. Consolidation

- Remind Ss of the history of the
first human to fly into space
( Gagarin).
IV. Homework:
Ask Ss to learn new words, reading
passage and translate passage into
Vietnamese.
Prepare for the next lesson: Speaking.
- Listen and remember.
- Listen and notes.
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