Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 11 tiết 85 - Unit 15: Space conquests - Lesson 1: Reading

Week: 29 Period: 85
Date: 17/ 03 /2014 
	UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUESTS
 LESSON 1: READING
I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to know the some vocabulary about astronauts and space
II. Teaching aids: text book , handouts, boards
III. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
I. WARM- UP Pictures
-T asks ss to work in 2 groups and answer the questions
- T asks ss to look at the picture and tell what they see in picture 1 & 2.
What do you call a person who flies a spaceship?
Between them which job do you prefer? 
Why do you like it?
- T asks ss to give the answers and gives feedback
II. PRE-READING
* Pre teach vocabulary: 
- T elicits and presents new words by situation and examples , then models and writes on the board.
- lift off (v) = launch (v) phóng , thả (tàu) (synonym)
- cosmonaut = astronaut (n) phi hành gia (picture)
- precisely (adv) = exactly chính xác (synonym)
- psychological (adj) thuộc về tâm lý (translation)
- venture (n) cuộc mạo hiểm (translation)
- feat (n) chiến công (translation)
- orbit (n) quỹ đạo (v) bay quanh (picture)
- T asks ss to write on the notebooks.
*Checking: MATCHING VOCABULARY
* Pictures
- T asks ss to look at the picture and match them with the decriptions
a. The first Vietnamese astronaut.
b. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
c. The orbit and a satellite.
- T asks ss to answer the questions.
1- Who is the first human to fly into space?
2- Can you name the first human to set foot on the moon?
3- Who is the first Vietnamese fly into space?
III. WHILE- READING
 TASK 1: Task 1: Match the heading to the paragraphs:
- T has ss work in pairs to match the heading to the paragraphs
Paragraph 1 A. The tragic accident
Paragraph 2 B. The lift - off
Paragraph 3 C. Congratulation
Paragraph 4 D. A view on Earth
Paragraph 5 E. Uncertainties
TASK 2: ANSWERING QUESTIONS
- T ask ss to work in pairs and ask and answer the questions in their textbook.
1. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
2. How long was he in space?
3. What questions were raised before Gagarin's space flight?
4. What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
5. Why couldn't Gagarin make a new spaceship?
6. What was done after Gagarin's death to honour this national hero?
- T runs through the meaning of some words to help ss understand 
- T calls some pairs to practice aloud in front of class
- T listens and gives the correct answers
IV. POST –READING 
Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/ phrases in the box into blanks
T asks ss to work in groups to fill in the blank.
- T runs through the meaning of some words to help ss understand 
- T calls some pairs to practice aloud in front of class
- T listens and gives the correct answers
V. HOMEWORK
 T asks ss to prepare the next lesson and do the homework on the handout
- Follow the teacher’s instructions
- Answer the questions
à Expected answers
Picture 1: It's a plane
Picture 2: It's a spaceship
A person who flies a plane is called a pilot and a person who flies a spaceship is called an astronaut.
I like pilot because I want to travel everywhere./ I like to be an astronaut 
Listen to the T’s instruction and contribute to the lesson.
Practice reading the new words.
Listen and repeat.
Copy down.
- Read the words and do the task.
- Look at the picture and do the task.
à Expected answers
Picture 1: b
Picture 2: c
Picture 3: a
1. The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
2. The first human to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
3. The first Vietnamese fly into space is Pham Tuan
- Work in pairs to match the heading to the paragraphs
à Expected answers
Paragraph 1 B. The lift - off
Paragraph 2 E. Uncertainties 
Paragraph 3 D. A view on Earth Paragraph 4 C. Congratulation
Paragraph 5 A. The tragic accident
- Take notes.
- Read the passage individually and do task 2 in pairs
- Some ss answer in front of the class.
à Expected answers
1. He was 27 then
2. He was in space for 108 minutes.
3. They were: "What would happen to a human being in space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature and how the mind would deal with the psychological tension?"
4. It was more than 17,000 miles per hour.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.
6. After his death, his hometown of Gzahatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.
- Discuss in groups of 4.
- Present in class.
à Expected answers
1. cosmonaut 2. in space
3. lasted 4. success
5. gravity 6. view
7. impossible 8. named after
- Do the task
HOMEWORK:
The 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in ______. 
	A. weight 	B. weighting 	C. weightless 	D. weightlessness
Neil Armstrong, an American ______, was the first man to step on the moon's surface. 
	A. scientist 	B. cosmonaut 	C. astronaut	D. astronomer
Neil Armstrong was the first man to ________ foot on the moon.
	A. try	B. let	C. put	D. set
How long did Yuri Gagarin’s trip into space ____? --Only 180 minutes.
	A. lengthen	B. last	C. late	D. strengthen
Many spacemen could never get back to the Earth because of ____ accidents.
	A. tragedy	B. tragic	C. tragically	D. tragedies