Unit 15 -reading

Space conquest
Unit 15
Reading
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Who is the first human to fly into space?
Yuri Gagarine
Can you name the first human to set foot on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?
Pham Tuan
Typhoon
You got 5 points
What is the name of the first Russian spaceship to fly into space?
Vostok 1
- weightlessness
Vocabulary
c
- cosmonaut
Unit 15
Reading
- gravity
- psychological tension (n)
- technical failure (n)
- orbit
qũy đạo
phi hành gia
trọng lực
không trọng lượng
căng thẳng tâm lí
sự cố kỹ thuật
Vocabulary:
Lift – off:
Cosmonaut:
phóng
Psychological tension:
Phi hành gia
Tâm lí căng thẳng
Thảm khốc
quĩ đạo
Orbit:
Task 1: Match the headings to the paragraphs:
Paragraph 1 A. The tragic accident
Paragraph 2 B. The lift-off.
Paragraph 3 C. Congratulations.
Paragraph 4 D. A view on earth.
Paragraph 5 E. Uncertainties.

Task 2: Read the passage again and answer the questions:

How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?

How long was he in space?

What questions were raised before Gagarin’s space flight/


What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?

Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

What was done after Gagarin’s death to honors this national hero?


He was 27 years old
He was in space for 108 minutes
How would the body react to the extreme changesi in temperature?
How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? If there was a
Technical failure, Gagarin might never get back to the earth.
17,000 miles per hour
Because he died in a plane crash on a tour training flight in March 1968
His hometown of Gzhatsk was named Gagarin and so was the Cosmonaut
Training Centre at Star City
Impossible named after lasted gravity
Success view in space cosmonaut
On 12th April, 1981, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1)__________ became the first human being (2)_________. Although his flight (3)_________only 108 minutes, its (4)_____________made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in Zero(5)_________, and he was able to (6)__________ 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 (7) _____________. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were (8)__________him.
cosmonaut
in space
lasted
success
gravity
view
impossible
named after