Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 15: Space conquest - Period: 89 - Lesson: Reading

Date of preparation: April , 2009 Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
Date of teaching: April , 2009 Period: 89 Lesson: Reading 
I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
Language Content :
- To introduce the text “space conquest”
- To provide Ss with new words relating to space.
- To help Ss understand and use new words effectively through speaking, asking and answering.
Language Function :
To help Ss understand the text “space conquest”
Education Aim : To educate Ss to love the nature.
1. Language :
Vocabulary : lift, orbit, cosmonaut, enormous, precisely, psychological, 
Structure : The simple past tense.
2. Skills: Reading, Speaking. Listening
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
Method : Communicative approach.
Techniques : Repetition, group work, pair work.
Materials needed : textbook, charts, prediction, pictures
Students’ preparation: To review the simple present tense.
 5. Previous exercises:
III. PROCEDURES IN CLASS:
Stabilization: 1m
a. Warm-up: makes greeting.
b. Checking absence: asks the monitor: Who’s absent today?.
 2. Checking up the previous knowledge: Check while teaching.
 3. Presentation of the new materials:
Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
The con tent of the lesson
5 ms
10ms
10ms
10ms
6ms
1. LEAD – IN:
Shows Ss some pictures and asks Ss to answer the questions.
1. What do you see in the pictures?
2. What do we call a person who flies a plane / a spaceship?
3. Between them which job do you prefer? Why?
 Helps the sts to find out the answer
Checks their answer in front of the class
Leads to the new lesson: 
2. PRE - READING:
Has the sts to answer some 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 to fly into space?
Pre-teaches some new words
+lift(v)(example)
+ orbit(v)
+ cosmonaut(n)(picture)
+ enormous(adj)(synonym)
+ precisely(adv)(antonym)
+ psychological(adj)(translation)
Helps the sts to pronounce new words in chorus and individual
3. WHILE – READING: 
Asks the sts to read the passage in silence in 4 minutes
Task 1: Match the heading to the paragraphs.
Explains the requirements of this task
Lets the sts work in pairs
Goes around the class to help the sts if they have difficulties
Calls some sts to give their answer
Corrects their answer and gives the feedback
+Keys
Paragraph 1- B
Paragraph 2- E
..3- D
.4- C
..............5 - A
Task 2: Read the passage again and answer the questions
Lets the sts read the passage once more
Has the sts to find out the information from the passage individual
Asks the sts to work in pairs and discuss their answer
Calls some pairs of sts to ask and answer the questions
Checks their answer and corrects in front of the class
Gives the keys
+Keys
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.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
6..
4.POST – READING:
Has the sts read the passage again 
Lets the sts to work in pairs to complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/ phrases in the box into the blanks.
Goes around the class and help the sts if they have difficulty
Checks their answer and gives the feedback.
+Keys
1. Cosmonaut 2. in space 3. lasted
4. success 5.gravity 6. view 
7. impossible 8. named after
* CONSOLIDATION:
Helps Ss to remind the main content of the passage
Close the textbook and answer
Listen to the teacher and take note
Look at the questions and find out the answer
Listen and take note
+lift(v)(example)
+ orbit(v)
+ cosmonaut(n)(picture)
+ enormous(adj)(synonym)
+ precisely(adv)(antonym)
+ psychological(adj)(translation)
Task 1: The words and phrases below all appear in the passage. Use a dictionary to get their meaning. Then translate them into Vietnamese.
Find out the words from the passage
Identify the part of speech
Work in pairs
Give out the answer
+Keys
Paragraph 1- B
Paragraph 2- E
..3- D
.4- C
..............5 - A
Task 2: Read the passage again and answer the questions
Read the passage once more and find out the information from the passage.
Work in pairs to find out the answer
Make questions and answer in pairs
+Keys
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.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
6..
Read the passage again complete the summary
+Keys
1. Cosmonaut 2. in space 3. lasted
4. success 5.gravity 6. view 
7. impossible 8. named after
UNIT 14: RECREATION
Period: Reading
*New words
+lift(v)(example)
+ orbit(v)
+ cosmonaut(n)(picture)
+ enormous(adj)(synonym)
+ precisely(adv)(antonym)
+ psychological(adj)(translation)
Task 1: The words and phrases below all appear in the passage. Use a dictionary to get their meaning. Then translate them into Vietnamese.
Keys
Paragraph 1- B
Paragraph 2- E
..3- D
.4- C
..............5 - A
Task 2: Read the passage again and answer the questions
+Keys
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.
5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968
6..
Complete the summary
+Keys
1. Cosmonaut 2. in space 3. lasted
4. success 5.gravity 6. view 
7. impossible 8. named after
 4. Homework:
	- Asks Ss to practise reading the passage and learn by heart all the new words they’ve just learnt
 5. Preparation for the next lesson
	- Asks Ss to prepare the speaking lesson of the Unit 15 for the next period
 6. Self – evaluation:
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