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2. Why do people want to travel into space? 3. What project is NASA sponsoring? 4. How would a hotel get food and water on the Moon? 6. How would tourists walk on the Moon?. - conducts t[r]
(1)Unit 14: Space Conquest (Nâng cao) Reading
Objectives
Aim: Ss will be able to know more about space conquest
Lexical items: Words/phrases related to space conquest
Structures: Type conditionals
Skills: Reading for specific information
Teaching aids: pictures, posters, English 11 textbook
Procedure
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up (5 mins)
- asks the question: Do you like to be an astronaut? Why/Why not?
Pre-reading (25 mins) 1)
- has Ss look at the pictures of Neil Amstrong, Juri Gagarin, a space shuttle and an astronaut on the Moon and then talk about them
2) Before you read a, p 192 - gives instructions
- conducts the correction of part a
3) Before you read b, p 192 - reminds Ss of type conditionals
- has Ss discuss the question: If you were to travel into space, what would you bring with you?
4) Pre-teaching vocabulary space tourism:
outer space: space station: to envisage: to orbit: lunar complex: gravity:
5) True/False prediction
- has Ss predict something about the text (using a
- work in groups to discuss the question
- talk about the pictures
- work in pairs to answer the questions
Answers:
1 C C A
- give the use and form of type conditionals
- work in groups
- some representatives from the groups present their opinions
- take notes
(2)poster)
1 In a survey in Japan, people of all ages wanted to travel into space
2 More than 80% of people over the age of 60 would like to visit space
3 There would be a hotel on the Moon in the near future
4 Space tourists will orbit the Earth by the next generation of space shuttles
5 The shape of the space hotel designed by Peter Inston would be round
6 Passengers would take low gravity excursions outside the space hotel by Moon buses
While-reading (40 mins) 1)
- plays the recording of the reading text
2)
- has Ss task a, p 193 (using the poster)
- conducts the correction of task a)
3)
- has Ss task b, p 193 What does NASA stand for?
2 Why people want to travel into space? What project is NASA sponsoring? How much does a trip to space cost?
5 How would a hotel get food and water on the Moon? How would tourists walk on the Moon?
- conducts the correction of task b)
Post-reading (20 mins)
statements are true or false
- give feedback
- listen to the recording and read along
- read the text silently to check their prediction
- work in pairs Compare their work with their partners’
Answers:
1 F T F T T T
- work in groups Read the text again and then answer the questions
Answers:
1 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States Because they want to satisfy their curiosity/enjoy adventures
3 to build a space station for holidaymakers
4 about $ million
5 water from lunar ice and food from farms on the Moon surface
(3)- has Ss task c, p 193
Comments
- work in groups Discuss the questions
- some representatives from the groups present their ideas in the front of the class
Students’ answers may vary