Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11 unit 15: Space conquest

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Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
A.READING
I/ Aim :
-Reading for special information about astronauts’ space
conquest in the world and
do some exercises to understand more the content of
the lesson.
II/. Objectives :
+ By the end of the lesson:
-Ss will be able to talk about astronauts and their works.
-Ss learn new words through situations , pictures.
-Ss can wide their knowledge about space conquest from the lesson.
III/. Materials:
+ Text book , pictures…
IV/. Anticipated problems : + Ss may have no ideas about space conquest.
V/. Procedure :
Steps

T’s activities
Ask students to look at the picture in the text book and
answer the following questions:
1. Look at the picture and tell me what you see
in picture 1, 2, 3.
2. Do you know the people who are they?
3. What do you call a person who flies a plane /
a spaceship?
Warmer
……………………………………………………….
2. Picture 1 : Neil Armstrong is the first human

to set foot on the moon .He is an American astronaut.
Picture 2: Yuri Gagarin is the first human in
space .He is a Russian astronaut.
Picture 3: Pham Tuan is the first Vietnamese
in space
Before -Ask : Students to answer the questions in the text
you
book.
read
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 person to fly
into space?
-Feed back and give correct answers:
1 :The first human to fly into space is Yuri
Alekseyevich Gagarin.

Ss’ activities

Answer the
questions in
pair work.

-Individual
work and
whole class.


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While
you
read

2 : The first human to set foot on the moon are Neil
Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
3: The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham
Tuan.
Vocabulary :
Space /s peis / (n)
Conquest / ‘k3ijkwest/ (n)
To set foot on
To fly into space =to lift into space aboard
Practice :
Ask student to read the passages quickly and stop at
the lines that contain the words to guess the closest
meaning.
Task 1 :
Ask student to match the headings to the paragraphs.
Go around the class and provide help if necessary.
Paragraph 1 -A : The tragic accident
2 - B : The lift off
3 - C : Congratulations
4 - D : A view on Earth
5 - E : Uncertainties.
Call on some Ss to read aloud their answers.
Check and give correct answers.
- > Paragraph 1 - B : The lift off
2 - E : uncertainties

3 - D : A view on Earth
4 - C : Congratulations
5 - A : The traffic accident.
Task 2:
Ask students to read the passage again and answer the
questions:
How old was Gagarin when he became the first
human being in space ?
How long was he in space ?
What question were raised before Gagarin ‘s space
flight ?
What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around
the Earth ?
Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight ?

Individual
work and
compare in
pair work
-Write down
correct
answers

-Work in
pair and
check in
pair


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After
you
read

What was done after Gagarin ‘s death to honour this
national hero ?
Call on some students to answers in front of the class.
Feed back and suggested answer:
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 ind
would deal with the spychological 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 home town of Gzahatsk
was renamed Gagarin , and the cosmonaut training
centre at star city , Russia , was given the name of this
national hero.
Task 3 :
-Complete the summary of reading passage by
putting the words / phrases in the box into the blanks:
Impossible Named
Lasted
gravity
after
Success

View
In space cosmonaut
On April 12 , 1961 Yuri Gagarin , a Russian
(1)………became the first human being (2)……….
Although his light (3)………….only 108 minutes , it
(4)…………made him a national hero. Healso became
the first person to eat and drink in zero (5)……….and
he was able to (6)……….the Earth in the 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
cosmonaut training centre at star city , Russian were
(8)……………him.
-Go around the class to check and help.
- Check their answer in front of the class.
1) Cosmonaut

2) in space

3) lasted


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4) success
7) impossible

Home
work

5) gravity
8) named
after

6) view

Ask Ss learn by heart the vocabulary.
Translate the summary ( task 3) into Vietnamese.
Prepare “ speaking”

-write down
correct
answers


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Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
SPEAKING
I. Objective: This lesson helps Ss will be able to talk about China’s first manned
spacecraft and the important events in space exploration.
II. Teaching procedures:
Time Steps
5’

Ss’
Work

Warm up
T asks Ss close the book and then T shows pictures of China’

astronaut with the spacecraft was called “ Shenzhou 5”
T asks Ss look at these pictures and answer:
1. Who’s he?
2. What is his nationality?
Pair
work

He’s Liwei. He’s Chinese. He’s China’s first astronaut. Next is
spacecraft was called “shenzhou 5”.
T asks Ss to open their book and look at the Task 1

15’

Task 1: Read the following piece of news, then ask and answer
questions.
On 15 october in2003, China launched its first manned
spacecraft into space. The spacecraft was called “ Shenzhou 5”.
Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut, was 38 years old then. The
successful flight marked a milestone in China’s project. China
became the third country in the world to be able to indendently


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23’

carry out manned space flights.
Setting model:
A: When did China launch its first manned spacecraft into space?
B: on October 15, 2003

Make questions with
What……………………………..?
How old ………………………….?
How important ……………………?
How many………………………….?
Questions and answer:
A: What is the name of China’s first manned spacecraft?
B: Its name’s Shenzhou 5
A: What is the name of the astronaut?
B: His name’ s Yang Liwei
A: How old was he when he flew in to the space?
B: He was 38 years old
A: How important was the successful flight to China?
B: The successful flight made a milestone in China’s space
project
A: How many countries in the world have been able to carry out
independently manned space activities? What are they?
B: There have been three. They are: Russian, the United State
and China.
Task2: Make questions and answers about the important events
in space conquest.
T shows picture of some famous astronauts and asks Ss look at
the pictures, answer the questions:
1. Who are they?
2. What are their nationalities?


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2’

Picture1: He’s Pham Tuan
- Vietnamese astronaut
Picture2: He’s Yuri Gagarin
- Russian cosmonant
Picture3: He’s Armstrong
- American astronaut
Picture4: He’s Buzz Aldin
- American astronaut
Picture5: She’s Valentina Tereshkova - Russian cosmonaut
Picture6: He’s John Glenn
- American astronaut
T writes the model sentences on the board and explain them.
T shows model with a student in the class.
Setting model:
A: When did Russian launch its first artificial satellite?
B: on October 4, 1957.
A: What is the name of Russian’s first artificial satellite?
B: Sputnik.
A: How important was the artificial satellite to Russia?
B: The first artificial satellite marked the beginning of space
Age.
(2)A: who is the first woman to fly into space?
B: That’s Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian cosmonaut.
A: when did she fly into space?
B: on June 16, 1963.
(3)A: who are the first human to set foot on the moon?
B: They are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin American
Astronaut.
A: When did they set foot on the moon?

B: on July 20,1969.
(4)A: Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?
B: That’s Pham Tuan.
A: With whom did he go along into space?
B: He went with V.V . Gorbotko a Russian cosmonaut.
A: How long did he stay in the orbit.
T goes around to help and check Ss then T calls a pair of a group
practice in front of the class.
T corrects mistake their pronunciation.


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Home work: write a short paragraph about the one important
event in space conquest.


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Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
LISTENING
I. TEACHING AIMS:
- To help Ss practice listening about the 1st human moon landing.
- To relate the content with real life.
II. LANGUAGE MATERIALS:
1. New words:
A suit case with oxygen launch
portable life support system
some words from Before you read.
2. Structures:

III. APPROACH AND TEACHING AIDS:
1. Approach: Communication
2. Teaching aids: Cassette player, chalk, pictures, text book, gestures, simple
English…
IV. RECENT WORK:
Unit 15 - Speaking
V. TEACHING STEPS:
1. Classroom procedures: - Greeting
- Checking attendance
2. Review the previous lesson:
3. New lesson:
Time &
Teacher’s Activities
Stages
Presentation * Warm- up:
Have students close their books
then ask some questions to lead
in
Name the 1st men to land on the
moon.
His nationality.
When
* Before you listen
- Have students work in pairs to
match the picture with the
caption.
- Have students read a loud the
words correct.

Students’ Activities

- Close their book.
- Answer the questions in
group.
1. Neil Armstrong & Buzz
Aldrin.
2. American.
3. 20 July 1989
- Work in pairs.
- Share as.
1d – 2a – 3c – 4e – 5b
- Practice reading.


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Practice

Production

- Supply the stress (or
pronunciation) and the meaning.
* While you listen:
Task 1
- Explain the situation.
- Have students read through the
statements quickly.
- Supply the meaning of some
words (in need).
- Play the tape thrice, for the last
time, have a pause after each

sentence.
- Play the tape again (in need) to
confirm the answer.
Task 2
- Ask students have a look at the
questions.
- Have students listen to the tape
again for 3 times (with a pause).

* After you listen:
- Have students work in group to
discuss the questions.
- Go round the class to help
students
(In need).
- Call some students to raise
answer

- Take notes.

- Listen.
- Read the statements.
- Take notes.
- Listen twice.
- Give answer after 3rd times
1F – 2F – 3F – 4F – 5T
- Listen again.
- Read the questions.
- Listen to the tape.
- Work in groups to give

answers.
- Share answers & take notes.
1. NASA’s Apollo Program.
2. On 16 July 1969.
3. Controlling the oxygen,
temperature & pressure inside
the space suit.
4.
5. Performed a variety of
experiments & collected soil &
rock sample to return to Earth.
6. On 24 July 1969.
- Work in groups.
- Ask some difficult words.
- Share answer & take notes.
1. Some reason:
- adventure
- find out another life outside
the earth.


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- precious material.
- other place for human beings.
2. The three things are:
- camera.
- water / food.
- tent.
4. Consolidation

5. Homework Prepare Unit 15 – Writing


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Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
WRITING
A. Objectives
1. Educational Aim
Students can get to know the content and structure of one’s person biography.
Students can write the biography of one identified person, based on the given
information.
2. Knowledge
General knowledge: Students learn about the content and structure of a biography
of a person.
Language: The Simple Past Tense and Simple Present Tense
Skills: Writing a biography
B. Method
Integrated, mainly communicative
C. Teaching Aids
A profile of the astronaut Neil Armstrong
Cards, pictures, highlight pens..
D. Procedure
Ask students to close their books and answer the
Warm-up
questions below after looking at a picture.
(3 minutes) Show the picture to students and ask them some
questions such as:

Question

1. What ‘s his name?
2. What’s his job?
3. What did he do?

Suggested answers
1. He’s Neil
Armstrong.
2. He’s astronaut
3. He, the first human,

Close their
books.
Look at the
picture and
answer the
questions:


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4. Is he Russian?

Date of birth

set foot on the moon
4. No, he isn’t. He’s
American.

Ask students to find out necessary information to
write a biography.

Place of
birth
Biography

Quote
Career
Known as (famous for)

Explain some new words: Navy, B.S, M.S,
WASA, investiate, space shuttle.
Show the picture of space shuttle:
Pre-Writing
( 9 minutes)

Work in pairs
and find out
the necessary
information to
write a
biography.
Then, they
answer the
question.


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Ask students to work in pairs to put each of the
correct word or phrases in the correct blank.(Task
1)

Suggested answers:
Date of birth
Place of birth
Known as
Career
Quote
Remind students of using correctly the
prepositions: in, at,on, from, to, with. And some
phrases:
Be known as
work as
While-Writing
receive something from
(20-25
resign from something.
minutes)
Divide the class into 4 groups and give each group
an Ao paper has been covered with plastic and a
marker and ask them to write Neil Armstrong’s
biography by using task 1 cues in textbook. (Task
2)
Do the first sentence on the blackboard as an
example:

Work in
pairs and
do the Task
1 and give
their
questions.

Do the Task
2 and write
on the Ao
paper
covered
with plastic.

Neil Armstrong was born 5th August, in 1930.
Go around the class to help the students if they
have difficulty.

Post-Writing
(5-7 minutes)
Homework
(5 minutes)

Ask the students to stick their Ao sheets on the
board, the students and the teacher corrects the
students' mistakes.
Ask students to a short biography of Marie Curie

Stick the Ao
sheets on
the board.


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7th 1867:

1891 :
1894 :
1903 :

born in Warsaw.
went to Paris
got married
received Ph.D


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UNIT 15: LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. AIMS:
Students practice pronouncing correctly five ending sounds /nt/, /nd/, /n θ /, /ns/ and
/nz/.
Students practice COULD/ BE ABLE TO and TAG QUESTIONS.
II. LEXICAL ITEMS:
Sounds, words and sentences related to five ending sounds.
Sentences related to grammar notes.
III. STRUCTURES:
Could – be able to.
Tag questions.
IV. TEACHING AIDS: Textbook, charts.
V. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warmer
T sets situation by giving two examples.
Ss follow these two examples and

Ex:
guess what sounds they are going
1. Kent is my friend. He learns very hard and
to learn today.
ranks tenth in my class.
2. He went away yesterday so we had no
chance to see him again.
T: Read two sentences and guess what sounds
we are going to learn today.
T: The sounds /nt/, /nd/, /n θ /, /ns/ and /nz/.
Ss guess.
Pronunciation:
Ss look at the sounds in textbook
- T. introduces five sounds
Ss repeat after T.
- T. reads five sounds
Ss practice reading aloud the
- T. has Ss practice the dialogue
dialogue in pairs
- T. observes the whole class and helps them
Ss practice in front of class
when needed
- T. checks.
Grammar and Vocabulary
Activity 1: T. uses examples to set situation.
Ss follow these two examples
Ex:
1. He could run very fast when he was young
- We were able to get tickets for the match
yesterday.

- T. has Ss compare the difference between the
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- T. checks and explains. (chart)
1. “COULD” is used to express an ability in
the past
2. “WERE ABLE TO” is used to express any
complete success in the past.
Exercise 1: Complete the sentences using
could, couldn’t or was / were able to
T. checks and explains

1. couldn’t / wasn’t able to
2. was able to
3. was able to / could
4. was able to
5. could / was able to
6. couldn’t / wasn’t able to
Activity 2:
T. sets situation
T: You haven’t had lunch, have you?
S: No, I haven’t
T: Is the sentence a question?
S: Yes, it is. It contains a tag questions.
Exercise 2: Read the situation and write a
sentence with a tag question. In each situation
you are asking your friend to agree with you.

T. checks

1. It’s expensive, isn’t it?
2. The film was great, wasn’t it?
3. She has (got) a lovely voice, doesn’t
she?
4. It doesn’t look very good, does it?
5. You’ve had your hair cut, haven’t
you?
Notes: (chart)
Statement
Tag
Affirmative 
Negative
Negative
Affirmative
Activity 3: T. has Ss practice Exercise 3.
Exercise 3. Mark and Jenny were showing
some family photograph to a friend. Here are
some of the questions that were asked.
Complete the questions by adding the tag

Ss compare the two verbs in pairs
Ss take notes

Ss practice Exercise 1 in pairs
Ss practice in front of class

Ss answer the questions

Ss work in pairs
Ss practice in front of class
Ss write the answers on the board

Ss take notes

Ss work individually
Ss practice in front of class


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questions.
T. controls the whole class
T. checks

1. ……… doesn’t she?
2. ………, haven’t you?
3. ………, wasn’t it?
4. ………, didn’t we?
5. ………, won’t we?
6. ………, can’t you?
7. ………, mustn’t it?
Homework:
1. Practice the five sounds
2. Practice could / be able to and tag questions
3. Prepare: Unit 16 reading.