Thiết kế bài dạy môn Tiếng Anh 11 năm 2010 - Unit 15 Space conquest - Lesson 1: Reading

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.
- Read and translate the title.
- yes/no
- listen and read.
- listen
- Ss work in pair then give the answer.
paragraph 1- B paragraph 2 - D
paragraph 3 - E paragraph 4 - C
paragraph 5- A
- listen
- Read and translate the title
-Listen
-Work in pair
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 or how the mind would deal with the psychological tension.
4. It was more than 17,000 miles per hour
After you read.
(5’)
Aim: to check Ss’ understanding through doing exercise
 Handout
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. Gagarin’s plane crash made his desire of revisiting space..............
 A. possible B. impossible 
7. His hometown & the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia were...him.
 A. named after B. take after
- T asks Ss to do exercise then back to the reading passage to check.
- This is the summery of the passage, which helps you to remember more easily.
- Asks Ss to recall the main ideas of the reading passage. 
Ss listen
-Answer.
1. C, 2.B, 3.B, 4. B, 5. C, 6. B, 7 A,
+ Yuri Gagarin is the first human fly into space. 
+ That flight was success. However, there were a lot of confused things before that flight. 
+ Now his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre a Star city were named after him.
Home work (1’)
T asks Ss to reread the passage then to prepare the next lesson.
listen