unit15: reading

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST
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I. Aims and objectives:
+ Language content:
- The students can understand Gagarin’s historic flight into space.
+ Language function:
- Through the reading period, the students will be able to develop their reading skill
and enlarge their vocabulary.
+ Education aim:
- To educate the students to understand more about the history of space science, the
love of science and the respect of respect of great men.
1. Language:
a. Vocabulary: cosmonaut, uncertainty, tension, feat.
b. Structrues:
2. Skill: Reading.
3. Education factor:
II. Teacher and students preparation:
1. Method: communicative approach.
2. Techniques: scanning, skimming, information gap, Brainstorm.
3. Material needed: extra board.
4. Students preparation: prepare vocabulary.
5. Previous exercise.
III. Proceduce in class:
1. Stabilization: 1’
+ Warm up:
+ Checking absence.
2. Checking up previous knowledge:
3. New lesson:
Time Teacher’s activity Students’ activity The content of the
lesson
5’ Lead in: Give a game

“crossword”.
1. It in a verb about fast or
slow.
Look at the board and
listen to the teacher’s
suggestion to guess the
words in teams.
2. A person who is fanous and
respected in the history.
3. The planet that we are
living.
4. The plant of our earth.
5. A city where spacemen are
trained in Russia.
6. A person who flies into
space.
7. Spacemen fly into space by
this means.
8. A centre which researches
space in the U.S.A.
- Can you guess the topic of
this unit.?
- Give their answer.
15’ - Give the topic of the unit
and ask the students to find
any words that relates to this
topic.

Space

- Ask the students to work in
pairs and answer the
questions.
- In troduce the fire leadings
before asking students to
skim the whole passage and
choose the correct heading in
groups.
- Have some students in each
group to show their choice.
- Listen to the teacher to
explain 5 headings and
then skim the passage to
choose the correct
heading for each
paragraph.
- Give the matching.
Unit 15: Space
conquest.
A. Reading.
Vocabulary:
- cosmonaut (n) a
Russian astronaut.
- uncertainty (n)
- tension (n)
=> vietnamese
meaning.
Before you read:
1. Garagin is the first
human to fly into

space .
2. Arm strong and Buzz
Aldrin are the first
persons to set food on
the moon.
3. Pham Tuan is the
first Vietnamese to fly
into space.
While you read:
1. Task 1:
A. The tragic accident:
paragraph 5.
B.The lift off:
paragraph 1
C. Conngratulations:
paragraph 4
D. A view on earth:
paragraph 2.
E. Uncertainties.
Paragraph 3.
- Introduce 6 questions.
- Ask students to work in
pairs to find the answer for
these questions.
- Have some students answer.
- Answer the questions.
2. Task 2:
1. He was 27 year old.
2. He was in space for
108 minutes.

3. What would happen
to a human begings in
space 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.
Introduce the table of words. After you read:
Impossible – named
after – lasted.
Gravity – success –
view in space
cosmonaut.
(1). Cosmanaut.
(2). In space.
(3). Lasted.
(4). Success
(5). Gravity.

(6) view
(7). Impossible
(8) named after.
1. His success attracted
word wide attention and
U.S president sent
congratulations.
2. He was the first
- Have some students give the
order.
Homework:
persion to view the eath
in a way that no human
begins done before.
3. On 12
th
, April, 1961
Yuri Gagarin flied into
space.
4. Hr died in a plane
crach and his name was
named for his home
town and the
cosmonaut training
center at star sity.
5. People worried that
Gagarin mingt never
get back to the earth.
3 – 2 – 5 – 1 – 4.