Unit 15 - Reading

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

Spacecraft = spaceship = space shuttle

The earth

The moon

What’s his name?

planets

Work 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

1 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin

2 The first humans to set foot on the moon are

Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and Buzz Aldrin.

Pham Tuan

3 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan.

conquest (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

Lift off into space

Orbit (around the earth)

astronaut = cosmonaut

1 Paragraph 1 A The tragic accident

2 Paragraph 2 B The lift-off

Paragraph 2

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

Paragraph 3

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

Paragraph 4

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

national hero.

a tragic accident

1 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?”

Read 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.

On 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.

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