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
(5’)
Aim: to motivate Ss before starting the lesson
- Do you want to find out about the solar system?
- You will know through a game.
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. mặt trăng
2. Mercury b. trái đất
3. Jupiter c. mặt trời
4. Venus d. sao hỏa
5. Saturn e. sao thổ
6. Sun f. sao mộc
7. Moon g. sao kim
8. Earth h. sao they
- After 2’, T asks the representative to write the answer on the board.
- T checks and gives the gift to the win group.
- 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?
- yes, now we will find out about the space conquest of the scientists through the new lesso
- Listen



- Ss work in group.











the representative write the answer on the board.
1-d, 2- h, 3- f, 4- g, 5- e, 6- c, 7- a, 8- b
Listen and the win group receive the gift




- That is Yuri Gagarin.

listen

Before you read.
(3’)






Aim: to help Ss have brainstorming about the space conquest.
1. Do you know people in this picture.
2. Do you know about the circles in the picture?
- to understand more about the space conquest you will move to the reading passage.
Listen

-They are the scientists who are the first people to fly into spaces.
- They are the planets of the solar system.
Ss listen




while you read:
(6’)

















Task1
(10’)














Task 2
(15 )


















while you read:
- T asks Ss to read the requirement of the reading passage.
vocabulary:
+ Astronaut: (n) nhà du hành vũ trụ
+ Orbit: (n) quỹ đạo
+ congratulate: ( v) chúc mừng
+ spacecraft: phi thuyền
+ gravity: (n) trọng lực
+ Tragic accident: tai nạn bi thảm
+ Lift off: (v) bay lên
+ Uncertainty: (n) không chắc chắn
+ Spacecraft: (n) tàu vũ trụ
- Reads one or more times and asks Ss to repeat.
- Calls some Ss read individually
- Listens and correct if necessary.
- Before reading the passage you move to the task 1

Aim: Reading quickly to understand the main ideas of the each paragraph.
- Reads and translates the title .
- Does the class understand the requirement of task1?
- Read all the sentences then to come back to the passage
- Read one by one the paragraph to find the suitable paragraph
- Do task1 in 7 minutes.(work in pair )
- Divides class into 3 groups.
- listens and corrects if necessary.
- you’ve matched the headings to the pragraphs, you can know more clearly through doing task 2

Aim: developing reading comprehension skill to answer the questions.
- Reads and translates the title
- 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
- Calls on some pair of Ss answer.
- T listens and corrects if necessary.














Ss listen and read the requirement of the reading passage.


Ss take note.













- Listen and repeat


-Read individually.