unit15: reading

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST read 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. . into space. + Language function: - Through the reading period, the students will be able to develop their reading skill and enlarge their vocabulary. +. Vocabulary: cosmonaut, uncertainty, tension, feat. b. Structrues: 2. Skill: Reading. 3. Education factor: II. Teacher and students preparation: 1. Method: