Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Unit 15 Space Conquest - Nguyễn Văn Tạo

Lesson Plan – Grade 11

Teacher in-charge: Nguyen VanTao

Date: April 4th, 2010 Period 90

Unit 15 SPACE CONQUEST Lesson READING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

- scan for specific ideas - understand about space conquest. II. Language Focus:

- Grammar: - New words: gravity, cosmonaut, last, name after . . . III. Teaching Aids: cassette player, textbook . . . . IV. Procedures:

Stages/

Time Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities

Warm – up

(7 minutes)

-T asks Ss to look at the pictures in the textbook and answer the following questions: 1. What do you see in picture 1 & 2? 2. What do you call a person who flies a plane / a spaceship? 3. Between them which job do you prefer? Give reasons for your answer. -T requires Ss to work in pairs and present their ideas in front of the class. -T goes around the class and helps Ss. * Expected answers: 1. It’s a plane / a spaceship (spacecraft) 2. A person who flies a plane is called a pilot and a person who flies a spacecraft is called an astronaut (cosmonaut) 3. I like pilot because I want to travel everywhere. I like to be an astronaut because I want to go the moon /fly into the space. Lead – in -T can ask Ss some questions to lead in the new lesson:  In today’s lesson, you are going to read something about Space Conquest.

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Pre – reading

(8 minutes)

Vocabulary Pre-teach -T asks Ss to look at the pictures again and answer the questions above the pictures. * Suggested answers: 1. The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. 2. The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. 3. The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan. -T elicits or explains some new words before reading. + gravity (n): the pull of the earth + cosmonaut (n): astronaut + last (v) + name after (v) (context) -T helps Ss pronoun the new words.

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While – reading

Task 1 – Matching -T asks Ss to read the passage quickly and then do Task 1 in pairs. -T lets Ss compere their answers with other pairs. -T calls on some Ss to go to the board and copy their answers on the table

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Lesson Plan – Grade 11

Teacher in-charge: Nguyen VanTao

(10 minutes) (prepared by teacher beforehand) -T gives feedback and correct answers. * Expected answer: Paragraph 1: B. The lift-off Paragraph 2: D. A view on Earth Paragraph 3: E. Uncertainties Paragraph 4: C. Congratulations Paragraph 5: The tragic accident

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(10 minutes)

Task 2 – Questions and Answers -T asks Ss to read the passage again silently and answer their questions. -T asks Ss to compare their answers with a partner. -T calls on some Ss to read their answers. -T has Ss work in pairs, aking and answering the questions. -T goes around the class and provides help if necessary. -T calls on some representatives of groups to act out the activity in front of the class. -T comments and gives the suggested answers. * Expected answer: 1. He was 27 then. 2. He was in space for 108 minutes. 3. They were what would happen to a human being in a 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. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.

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Post – reading

(8 minutes)

Gap – filling -T asks Ss to read the text and then work in pairs to do the gap-filling test in the textbook. -T moves around the class and help Ss if necessary. -T calls on some Ss to present their ideas in front of the class. -T gives feedback. * Suggested answers: 1. cosmonaut 2. in space 3. lasted 4. success 5. gravity 6. view 7. impossible 8. named after

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Homework

(2 minutes)

-T asks Ss to learn …