Teacher Quach Thi Hien

Preparing time 18 /3/2010 Teaching time 22 / 3 /2010

Unit 15 Space conquest

Lesson 1: Reading
I. Objectives:
- Understand the passage about Space conquest
- Know about the first human flying into space
- have more new words about Space conquest field
- Develop the reading comprehension skill
II. Methods.
- Integrated, mainly communicative approach
III. Teaching aids
- Teacher; lesson plan, textbook, handout.
- Students: textbook, notebook,
IV. Procedure:

Time Teacher activities Students activities

Warm up Aim: to motivate Ss before starting - Listen
(5) the lesson
- Do you want to find out about the
solar system?
- You will know through a game. - Ss work in group.
Class is divided into 4 groups.
Handout
- Matching the word in column A with
the word in column B in suitable way.
A B
1. Mars a. mt trng
2. Mercury b. tri t
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3. Jupiter c. mt tri
4. Venus d. sao ha
5. Saturn e. sao th
6. Sun f. sao mc
7. Moon g. sao kim the representative write the answer
8. Earth h. sao they on the board.
- After 2, T asks the representative to 1-d, 2- h, 3- f, 4- g, 5- e, 6- c,
write the answer on the board. 7- a, 8- b
- T checks and gives the gift to the Listen and the win group receive
win group. the gift
- There are 8 planets in the solar
system. Now human discovers and
sets foot on some planets.
- Who is the first human to fly into
space? - That is Yuri Gagarin.
- yes, now we will find out about the
space conquest of the scientists listen
through the new lesso
Before Aim: to help Ss have brainstorming Listen
you read. about the space conquest.
(3) 1. Do you know people in this -They are the scientists who are the
picture. first people to fly into spaces.
2. Do you know about the circles in - They are the planets of the solar
the picture? system.
- to understand more about the space Ss listen
conquest you will move to the reading
passage.

while while you read:

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you read: - T asks Ss to read the requirement of Ss listen and read the requirement
of the reading passage.
(6) the reading passage.
vocabulary:
Ss take note.
+ Astronaut: (n) nh du hnh v tr
+ Orbit: (n) qu o
+ congratulate: ( v) chc mng
+ spacecraft: phi thuyn
+ gravity: (n) trng lc
+ Tragic accident: tai nn bi thm
+ Lift off: (v) bay ln
+ Uncertainty: (n) khng chc chn
+ Spacecraft: (n) tu v tr
- Reads one or more times and asks Ss - Listen and repeat
to repeat.
- Calls some Ss read individually -Read individually.
- Listens and correct if necessary.
- Before reading the passage you
move to the task 1

Task1 Aim: Reading quickly to understand

(10) the main ideas of the each paragraph.
- Read and translate the title.
- Reads and translates the title .
- Does the class understand the - yes/no
requirement of task1?
- Read all the sentences then to come - listen and read.
back to the passage - listen
- Read one by one the paragraph to
find the suitable paragraph
- Do task1 in 7 minutes.(work in pair ) - Ss work in pair then give the
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- Divides class into 3 groups. answer.
- listens and corrects if necessary. paragraph 1- B paragraph 2 - D
- youve matched the headings to the paragraph 3 - E paragraph 4 - C
pragraphs, you can know more clearly paragraph 5- A
through doing task 2

Task 2 Aim: developing reading

- listen
(15 ) comprehension skill to answer the
questions.
- Read and translate the title
- Reads and translates the title
-Listen
- firstly, you read all the questions
- secondly, underline the key words
of each sentence
- Finally, find the key words in the
passage will refer to the answer.
-Work in pair
- Work in pair
1. He was 27 then.
- Calls on some pair of Ss answer.
2. He was in space for 108 minutes.
- T listens and corrects if necessary.
3.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.
4. It was more than 17,000 miles
per hour

After you Aim: to check Ss understanding Ss listen

read. through doing exercise
(5) Handout
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I. Choose the best answer.
1. On the 12th April 1961, Yuri
Gagarin, a Russian ..........became the
first human being in space.
A. Scientist B. Cosmonaut
2. His flight..........only 108 minutes.
A. Took B. Lasted
3. Its ...........made him a national hero
A. Failure. B. Success
4. He also became the first person to
eat and drink in Zero............
A. Weightlessness B. Gravity
5. He was able to .........the Earth in
way that no one had done before.
A. View B. Watch
6. Gagarins plane crash made his
desire of revisiting space..............
A. possible B. impossible -Answer.
7. His hometown & the Cosmonaut
Training Centre at Star City, Russia 1. C, 2.B, 3.B, 4. B, 5. C, 6.
were...him. B, 7 A,
A. named after B. take after
- T asks Ss to do exercise then back to
the reading passage to check. + Yuri Gagarin is the first human
fly into space.
- This is the summery of the passage, + That flight was success.
which helps you to remember more However, there were a lot of
confused things before that flight.
easily. + Now his hometown and the
- Asks Ss to recall the main ideas of Cosmonaut Training Centre a Star
city were named after him.
the reading passage.
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Home T asks Ss to reread the passage then to listen

work (1) prepare the next lesson.