LESSON PLAN
Prepared date:
Teaching date:
Period: 45’
Unit 15 – SPACE CONQUEST
Lesson: Reading(pp 166 – 169)
Learner’s aspects:
- Characteristic: Active, talkative…
- Background knowledge: Ss have learnt some vocabulary about space (ex: moon, stars, planet….)
- Language level: Grade 11 a 11
- Number of Ss in class: 45 Ss
Objective: at the end of the lesson Ss will be able to
- Know and remember well some vocabulary about the lesson
- Read the text to scan and skim information about the text
- The students will know more about wonders of the world.

Aim:
- Vocabulary: Ss know some words related to the party.
- Skill:. 4 skills; main skill: reading
Teaching aids: textbook,laptop, speaker, gifts, book.
Procedure:
Time
Content
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

13’
I. Pre-Reading
* Activity 1:Look at the picture. Ask and answer the following questions?
1. Who is he?
2. Who is the first human to fly into space?
3. Who is the first Vietnamese to fly into space?
4. Who is the first humans to set foot on the moon?
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Neil Armstrong

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Buzz Aldrin

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

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Pham Tuan
- Suggested answers:
1) picture 1: Neil Armstrong
Picture 2: Buzz Aldrin
Picture 3: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Picture 4: Pham Tuan
2) Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
3) Pham Tuan
4) Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong


New Words:
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- (to) lift off:
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- Orbit (n): /ˈɔːrbɪt/
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- Cosmonaut(n): /ˈkɒzmənɔːt/
= Gravity (n): /ˈɡrævəti/
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- Weightlessness (n): /ˈweɪtləsnəs/
- Enormous (a) /ɪˈnɔːməs/ = huge/big
- Certain (a) = sure (a)
( Uncertain (a) = not sure (a)
- Precisely (adv) /prɪˈsaɪsli/ = clearly/ exactly
- deal with (phr v)= to solve
- Telegram (n) /ˈtelɪɡræm/
- Feat (n) /fiːt/ = success
- Conquest (n):


- Aks Ss to look at the picture and answer the questions in
- Calls some Ss to answer the questions
- correct and give suggested answers
- lead in the new lesson.
- Play CD of the text
- Introduces new words
- Read the new words, let Ss repeat after
- Calls some Ss read all the word
- Work in pair


- answer the questions
- listen to the teacher


- listen the CD text


- listen and repeat




















































7’

* While–reading:

Activity 2: read again the text about Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to fly into space and then, work in group to do task 1
- 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

Suggest answers:
1-B; 2-D; 3-E; 4-C; 5-A




- Aks Ss to read silent and do task 1
- Calls some Ss write down the answer on the board
- Check the answer



- Work in group, one table is a group
And do the task
- Go to the board and write the answer
-Listen and take note

15’
* Activity 3 :Mini game “lucky stars”. Work in group. Each group will choose 1 star and answer the question.
1) When did Yuri Gagarin lift off into space aboard the Vostok?
2) How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?
3) How long was Gagarin in space?
4) What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?
5) Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?
6) What was done after Gagarin’s death to honour this national hero?

Suggest anwers;

1) On 12th Aprill, 1961
2) He was 27 years old
3) He was in spaces for 108 minutes
4) It was mors than 17,000 miles per hour
5) Because he