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...[r]
(1)Lop11.com (2) Yuri Gagarin Lop11.com (3) Neil Armstrong Lop11.com (4) Buzz Aldrin Lop11.com (5) Pham Tuan Lop11.com (6) Yuri Gagarin Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin * Work with a partner: Ask and answer the following questions Who is the first human to fly into space? Can you name the first humans to set foot on the moon? and Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space? Lop11.com Pham Tuan (7) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Lop11.com (8) ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Quang Trung Senior High School I PRE READING: * VOCABULARY: - ( to) lift off - Orbit Phóng lên (n) quỹ đạo - Cosmonaut - Gravity (n) Phi hành gia = astronaut (n) trọng lực - Weightlessness (n) trạng thái không trọng lực Lop11.com (9) ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Quang Trung Senior High School * Checking vocabulary: weightlessness cosmonaut orbit Lop11.com gravity lift off (10) ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Quang Trung Senior High School II WHILE READING: Read the text about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to fly into space and then the tasks that follow Task Match the headings to the paragraphs Paragraph A The tragic accident Paragraph B The lift-off Paragraph C Congratulations Paragraph D A view on Earth Paragraph E Uncertainties Lop11.com (11) ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Quang Trung Senior High School Task Play a game “lucky pictures” Lop11.com (12) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING When did Yuri Gagarin lift off into space aboard the Vostok ? On 12th April, 1961 Lop11.com (13) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space ? He was 27 years old then Lop11.com (14) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING How long was Gagarin in space ? He was in space for 108 minutes Lop11.com (15) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING 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 Lop11.com (16) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth ? It was more than 17,000 miles per hour Lop11.com (17) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Who wrote a telegram to Moscow to congratulate the success of Gagarin’s flight ? U.S President John F Kennedy Lop11.com (18) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight ? Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968 Lop11.com (19) Quang Trung Senior High School ENGLISH 11 Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST A READING What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national hero ? 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 Lop11.com (20) Lop11.com (21)