Bài 15. Đòn bẩy

*Matching:
a. Buzz Aldrin
d. Pham Tuan
c. N.Armstrong
b. Y.A.Gagarin
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Who is the first human to fly into space?
Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
Reading: Y.A. GAGARIN
I. New words
II. Ordering
III. Questions
IV. Gap-fill
V. Retell
I. New words:
a cosmonaut
: nhà du hành vũ trụ (Nga)
an orbit
: quỹ đạo
weightlessness (unc):
trạng thái phi trọng lượng
a plane crash
: vụ rơi (va chạm) máy bay
I. New words:
an orbit
: quỹ đạo
weightlessness (unc):
trạng thái phi trọng lượng
a plane crash
: vụ rơi (va chạm) máy bay
a cosmonaut
: nhà du hành vũ trụ (Nga)
P.1. The lift-off
P.2. A view on Earth
P.3. Uncertainties
P.4. Congratulations
P.5.The tragic accident
II. Ordering the headings of 5 paragraphs:
The tragic accident
The lift-off
Congratulations
A view on Earth
Uncertainties
P1- B
P2- D
P3- E
P4- C
P5- A
III. Answer the questions:
- He was 27.
How old was Gagarin when he became first human being in space?
2. How long was he in space?
- He was in space for 108 minutes.
3. What was the speed of his spacecraft
in orbit around the Earth?
- It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.
4. Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
Because he died in a plane crash on a
routine training flight in March 1968.
IV. Fill in each blank with a suitable word:

On 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1)________ became the first human being in space. Although his flight (2)________ only 108 minutes, its (3)____________ made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (4)____________, and he was able to (5)_________ the Earth in a way that no one had done before. Unfortunately, a plane crash in March 1968 made Gagarin’s desire of revisiting space (6)____________. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were named after him.
cosmonaut
gravity
lasted
impossible
success
view
IV. Retell the summary of the reading:
Vostok 1/ lifted off
flight/ 108 minutes
first man/ weightlessness
J.Kennedy/ congratulated
national hero
plane crash/ died
* HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart new words.
Prepare for speaking lesson.
GOODBYE!
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