Unit 15: Space conquest

- Know the first human to fly into space - Learn the meaning of the words - Answer the questions 3... Warm up: - Show some picture about space, spaceship and ask questions: Give so

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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