The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin..3. The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan... From his window in space, Gagarin was able to in a way that no h
Trang 1Spacecraft = spaceship = space shuttle
Trang 2The earth
Trang 3The moon
Trang 4What’s his name?
Trang 5planets
Trang 7Work with a partner Ask and answer
the following questions.
1 Who is the first human to fly into
the space?
2 Can you name the first humans
to set foot on the moon?
3 Who is the first Vietnamese to fly
into space?
Before you read
Trang 81 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
Trang 9Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin
2 The first humans to set foot on the moon are
Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and Buzz Aldrin.
Trang 10Pham Tuan
3 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan.
Trang 11conquest (n) ['k ηkwest] ɔ : sự chinh phục
lift off (n /v) [lift :f] ɔ
orbit (n) [' :bit] ɔ
astronaut (n) ['æstrən :t] ɔ ̣ = cosmonaut (n) ['k zmən :t] ɔ ɔ
weightlessness (n) ['weitlisnis]: zero gravity
uncertainty (n) [ n'sə:tnti] ʌ : sự không chắc chắn
precisely (adv) [pri'saisli]: exactly
react (v) [ri:'ækt]: phản ứng
extreme (adj) [iks'tri:m]: tột độ
psychological tension (n) [,saikə'l d ikl 'ten∫n] ɔ ʒ : áp lực tâm lý
hero (n) ['hiərou]: anh hùng
venture (n) ['vent∫ə] việc mạo hiểm
feat (n) [fi:t]: chiến công
Trang 12Lift off into space
Trang 13Orbit (around the earth)
Trang 14astronaut = cosmonaut
Trang 151 Paragraph 1 A The tragic accident
2 Paragraph 2 B The lift-off
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The 27 – year – old Soviet cosmonaut became
the first person to eat and drink in
weightlessness From his window in space,
Gagarin was able to in a way that
no human beings had done before The first
words spoken from space were: “I see the Earth It’s so beautiful!”
view the Earth
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Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enornous No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space How would the body react to the extreme
changes in temperature? How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? If there
was a technical failure, Gagarin might never
turn back to the Earth.
uncertainties
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The success of Gagarin’s flight attracted
worldwide attention and made him a hero In
a telegram to Moscow, US President John F Kennedy wrote, “The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet
Union their satisfaction for the safe flight on the astronaut in man’s venture into space
We you and the Soviet
scientists and engineers who made this feat possible.
congratulate
Trang 20national hero.
a tragic accident
Trang 211 How old was Gagarin when he became the
first human being in space?
2 How long was he in space?
3 What question were raised before Gagarin’s
space flight?
Read the passage again and answer the questions.
He was 27 then
108 minutes
- What would happen to a human being in space?
- How would the body react to the extreme changes in temperature?
- How would the mind deal with the
psychological tension?”
Trang 22Read the passage again and answer the questions.
4 What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit
around the Earth?
5 What couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
6 What was done after Gagarin’s death to honor this national hero?
It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
Because of a tragic accident
- His hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin.
- The Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City,
Russia, was given the name Gagarin to honour
this national hero.
Trang 23On 12th 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.
cosmonaut
success
gravity view
impossible
named after
Complete the summary of the reading
passage by putting the words/phrases in
the box into the blanks.
Trang 24HOME WORK
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