Unit 15 Reading lớp 11

1.Who is the first human to fly into space?Yuri Gagarin... Task 2.Read the passage again and answer the questions1.How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?. 3.W

A plane

A spaceship

1.What do you call a person who flies a plane?

2.What do you call a person who flies a spaceship?

A pilot

An astronaut

Unit 15.SPACE CONQUEST

Lesson 1.Reading

I.Before you read

*Look at the pictures and match

them with names

1.Neil Armstrong 2.Pham Tuan 3.Yuri Gagarin

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A

1.Who is the first human to fly into space?

Yuri Gagarin

2.Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon?

Neil Armstrong

3.Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?

Pham Tuan

1.orbit (n)

2.cosmonaut (n)3.astronaut (n)4.react (v)

5.extreme (adj)6.venture (n)

7.tragic (adj)

8.tension(n)

II While you read

Task 2.Read the passage again and 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 could’nt Gagarin make a new

space flight?

6.What was done after Gagarin’s death

to honour this national hero?

Task 2 Read the passage again and answer the questions

1.How old was Gagarin when he

became the fisrt human being in space?

He was 27 then

2.How long was he in space?

He was in space for 108 minutes

3.What questions were raised before

Gagarin’s space flight?

They were what would happen to a

human being in space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind would

deal with the psychological tension

4.What was the speed of his spacescraft

in orbit around the Earth?

It was more than 17,000 miles per hour

5.Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new

space flight?

Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968

6.What was done after Gagarin’s death

to honour this national hero?

After his death,his hometown of

Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin,and the Cosmonaunt Training Centre at Star City,Russia,was given the name

of his national hero

III/After you read

1.(n) cosmonaut2.(adv) in space3.(v) lasted

4.(n) success

5.(n)gravity

6.(v) view

7.(adj) impossible8.(v) named after

-learn all new words

-prepare the next period