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(1)Wee: 32 Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST A.READING Period 90 I OBJECTIVES: - Aims: Through the reading skills, sts can have a general idea of the lesson as well as enrich their knowledge in the field of space and spacecraft; how human conquered the space - Lexical items: words/ phrases related to space and spacecraft II TIME: 45’ III SKILLS: Reading for gist and for specific information IV METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative V TEACHING AIDS: cassette player, chalks, pictures, and letters VI PROCEDURE: STAGES Warmer PreReading TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES (Teacher prepares a picture of a plane, a spacecraft and an astronaut) T asks students to look at the pictures and answer the questions: - What can you see in each picture? - What you call a person who flies a plane/ a spaceship? - Which job you prefer, a pilot or an astronaut? Why? ( Based on sts’ answer, teacher leads in the new lesson) Activity 1: -Ask sts to match the names with the pictures in the textbook (page 166) Pham Tuan Neil Armstrong Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Activity 2: - Have sts work in pairs, answers the questions in the textbook based on the names of people in activity - Check sts’ answer and supply the correct information if necessary Activity 3: - Teacher introduces some new words orbit (n) weightlessness (n) Lop11.com STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES Discuss in pairs and answer the teacher’s questions Suggested answers: - It’s a plane/ a spacecraft/ an astronaut - A person who flies a plane is called a pilot, and a person who flies a spacecraft is called an astronaut - Answer orally (Order of the pictures from left to right: Neil Armstrong, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Pham Tuan) Answers to the questions in textbook: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Pham Tuan - Listen and take notes (2) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao enormous (a) uncertainty (n) temperature (n) occur (v) - T has sts practice reading the new words WhileReading T plays the cassette Sts open books listen to the text and read in silence Task 1: - Give instructions for task - Read aloud their answers - Ask sts to read the passage silently to Suggested answers: finish task Paragraph 1: B the lift off - Check orally & correct if necessary Paragraph 2: D A view on Earth Paragraph 3: E Uncertainties Paragraph 4: C Congratulations Paragraph 5: A The tragic accident Task 2: - Ask sts to read the passage again to Read silently and then work in pairs answer the question in pairs Give answers and take notes - Teacher walks around to give help if Suggested answers: necessary He was 27 then - Check sts’ answers by asking some He was in space for 108 minutes pairs of sts give the questions and They were what would happen to a human being in space or how the body answers would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind would deal with the psychological tension It was more than 17 000 miles per hour Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968 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 PostReading -Ask sts to work in groups, complete the Work in groups and the task summary of the reading passage by Give answers putting the words/ phrases in the box into Suggested answers: cosmonaut the blanks - Teacher walks around to give help if in space necessary lasted - Check sts’ answers and give bonus to success gravity the winners Lop11.com (3) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao view impossible named after HOMEWORK: - Learn the new words - Read the passage again - Prepare Part B: Speaking Week: 32 SPEAKING Period: 91 - Teaching Aims: After the lesson, student will able to : - _talk about possible of events - _talk about historical events on the space conquest - Lexical items: - Words/phrases relate to the process of launching its first manned apace craft into space - Teaching aims: chalk, picture, handout Stages Teacher’s Activities Students Activities Warn Up(5’) _close the book Listen _give some picture of famous Answer astronaut _ask sts some questions and answer Question 1.Who Are They? 2.What Are They? 3What Are their nationalities? *Ask sts rearrange picture with is name Pict 1:He’s Pham Tuan_VietNamese astronaut 2.He’s Yuri Gagarin Russian astronaut Buzz Aldrin_American Astronaut 4.Yang Liwei_Chinese Austronaut 5.John Glenn_An American Astronaut Valentina_Tereshkova Lop11.com (4) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Pre Speaking(8’)( task 1) Bui Thi phuong Thao Now we study “Speaking of Space conquest “ _Has sts work in pair, read the following piece of news, then ask and answer question (task 1) _give some new words : manned, spacecraft _Listen and repeat launch(v) milestone, _Has sts made questions with when, what, how old, how important, how Work in pair Ex: many S1: When did China laugh first manned spacecraft into space? S2:On October 15/2003 S1: what is the name of china’s first manned spacecraft? S2:It’s SjemZjou S1: What is the name of the astronaut? S2;His name’s Yang Liwei S1: How old was he when he flows into space? S2: 38 years old S1:How important was the successful flight to China S2:Make a milestone in China’s space project Lop11.com (5) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao While _Has sts talk about the important speaking (22’) events in space exploration _walks around the class, offer ideas and comments when sts need help _set model with students Ex: (1)T: when did Russia launching its artificial satellite? S: on October 4,1957 T: What is the name of Russia’s first artificial S: sputnik T How important? S: mask the beginning of space age Post speaking (8’) Have some students come form of the _ individual class and talk about the important event in the space conquest Homework (2’) _Prepare “ listening” _ Rewrite “the important event in the space conquest.” “ Week:33 Period: 92 LISTENING I TEACHING AIMS: - To help Ss practice listening about the first human moon landing - To relate the content with real life II LANGUAGE MATERIALS: New words: A suitcase with oxygen launch portable life support system some words from before you read Structures: III APPROACH AND TEACHING AIDS: Approach: Communication Teaching aids Cassette player, chalk, pictures, textbook, gestures, simple English… IV RECENT WORK: Unit 15 - Speaking V TEACHING STEPS: Classroom procedures: - Greeting Lop11.com (6) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao - Checking attendance Review the previous lesson: New lesson: Time & Stages Presentation Practice Production Teacher’s Activities * Warm- up: Have students close their books then ask some questions to lead in Name the 1st men to land on the moon His nationality When * Before you listen - Have students work in pairs to match the picture with the caption - Have students read a loud the words correct - Supply the stress (or pronunciation) and the meaning * While you listen: Task - Explain the situation - Have students read through the statements quickly - Supply the meaning of some words (in need) - Play the tape thrice, for the last time, have a pause after each sentence - Play the tape again (in need) to confirm the answer Task - Ask students have a look at the questions - Have students listen to the tape again for times (with a pause) * After you listen: Lop11.com Students’ Activities - Close their book - Answer the questions in group Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin American 20 July 1989 - Work in pairs - Share as 1d – 2a – 3c – 4e – 5b - Practice reading - Take notes - Listen - Read the statements - Take notes - Listen twice - Give answer after 3rd times 1F – 2F – 3F – 4F – 5T - Listen again - Read the questions - Listen to the tape - Work in groups to give answers - Share answers & take notes NASA’s Apollo Program On 16 July 1969 Controlling the oxygen, temperature & pressure inside the space suit Performed a variety of experiments & collected soil & rock sample to return to Earth On 24 July 1969 (7) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao - Have students work in group to - Work in groups discuss the questions - Go round the class to help students - Ask some difficult words (In need) - Call some students to raise answer - Share answer & take notes Some reason: - adventure - find out another life outside the earth - precious material - other place for human beings The three things are: - camera - water / food - tent Consolidation Homework Prepare Unit 15 – Language focus Week: 33 Period: 93 WRITING Time: 45 minutes A Objectives Educational Aim Students can get to know the content and structure of one’s person biography Students can write the biography of one identified person, based on the given information Knowledge General knowledge: Students learn about the content and structure of a biography of a person Language: The Simple Past Tense and Simple Present Tense Skills: Writing a biography B Method Integrated, mainly communicative C Teaching Aids A profile of the astronaut Neil Armstrong Cards, pictures, highlight pens D Procedure Stages & Time Teacher’s activity Lop11.com Students’ activity (8) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Warm up (3 minutes) Bui Thi phuong Thao Show a short video clip /picture about Neil Armstrong and ask students some questions about him: - Who is he? - What does he do? - Is he Russian or American? - When did he walk on the moon? Pre -writing (12 -Divide sts into four groups, ask minutes) one from each group to the board Brainstorming: to write down information we need to write one’s biography Others in the same group can help by shouting the needed words or phrases - Give feedback and marks to the group with correct information - Choose five words/phrases and explain the meanings (if necessary): career, place of birth, date of birth, quote, known as Activity Task 1: -Ask sts to read the information about Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon, then put each of the headings in the box in the appropriate blank - Show some pictures relating to the career of Neil Armstrong: NASA, the moon, space shuttle, United States Navy - Explain the meaning of some difficult words: resign, appoint, vice chairman, committee, investigate, disaster, leap) While writing (20 minutes) TASK - Teacher divides students into groups of four - asks sts to write a biography of Neil Armstrong from the information given in task - Ask sts to pay attention to these points: Lop11.com - work in groups of four suggested answers: He is Neil Armstrong He is an astronaut He is American In 1969 - Work in groups - Brainstorming for needed words/phrases to write one’s biography - Suggested answers: job, address, hometown, career, place of birth, date of birth, quote, marital status, family, education… -Work individually, and then check with their partners -Take notes on difficult words - Suggested answers: Birth Place of Birth Known as Career Quote - Students works in groups and write the biography on a piece of paper card - Suggested answers: Neil Armstrong is an American astronaut He is known as the first person to walk on the moon He was born on August 5th, 1930 in (9) Lesson plan 11 (Basic) Bui Thi phuong Thao + prepositions: at-on-in-from-towith +articles: a-an-the + words/phrases used to write biography: be known as- work asresign from+ Simple past tense +Simple present tense - move around to supervise and give help when necessary Post writing (10 minutes) Homework - ask sts to exchange their paper card to correct - ask one group to show their biography on the board - Give comment and correct in front of other students, ask them to pay attention to some basic grammatical mistakes Ask sts to write their own biography Lop11.com Wapakoneta in Ohio From 1949 to 1952, he worked as a pilot in the United States Navy Armstrong received his B.S from Purdue University in 1955 He joined the NASA astronaut program in 1962 Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon’s surface on July 20th, 1969 He was joined by Buzz Adrian forty minutes later Armstrong and Adrian spent two and a haft hour on the moon’s surface Armstrong received his M.S from the University of Southern California He resigned from NASA a year later and from 1971 to 1979, he taught at the University of Cincinnati In 1986 Armstrong was appointed vice chairman of the committee that investigated the Challenger shuttle disaster He is also well-known for what he said when he stepped on the moon’s surface:” That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” - Students pick out the mistakes then correct them - show their biography on the board (10)