LESSON PLAN

Students name: Nguyn Ngc Phng

Class: DH12AV Student code: DAV111020
Instructor: Nguyn Xun Trng
Date: 08/04/2014 Grade: 11 Class: 11C Period:

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST
A. READING

I. Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas, and
identifying and correcting false statements
- use the information they have read to discuss celebrations in their culture
- General knowledge: sts can have a general idea of the lesson as well as enrich
their knowledge in the field of space and spacecraft; how human conquered the space.
- New words: words/ phrases related to space and spacecraft
3. Skills: Reading for general or specific information
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Some photos of celebrations in the world
IV. Procedures:
Time Content T and Ss activities
5ms Warm-up: GUESSING PICTURES







Suggested questions:
- 1. What can you see in each picture?
- 2. What do you call a person who flies a plane/ a
spaceship?
- 3. Which job do you prefer, a pilot or an
astronaut? Why?
Suggested answers:
- T elicits the activity:
- T asks students to look at the
pictures and answer the
questions(Teacher prepares a picture
of a plane, a spacecraft and an
astronaut)
- Ts instructions:
+ Before we start our lesson, lets
play a game.
+ I have some pictures for you
+ now, you work individually and
look at the pictures, then guess what is
it?
Checking:
+ What do you do?
- Its a plane/ a spacecraft/ an astronaut.
A person who flies a plane is called a pilot, and a
person who flies a spacecraft is called an
astronaut.
+ are you work in group?

+ ok, you are ready?
+ now, what can you see in each
picture?
- +they areright! Its a
plane/ a spacecraft/ an astronaut.
- + so, we call the person who flies a
plane is
+ right, you are so excellent, he/she
is a pilot or an astronaut
- Ss practice and answer the questions.
- T gives the topic of reading lesson
and leads to the new lesson
9ms Activity 1: Teaching vocabulary:
orbit (n) qu o (picture + translation)
weightlessness (n) tnh trng phi trng lc
(translation)
enormous (a) khng l (picture + translation)
uncertainty (n) tnh trng khng chc chn
(translation)
temperature (n) nhit ( translation)
occur (v) xy ra (translation)
I. PRE-READING:
Activity 2: Prediction
Which passage following the headings:
headings paragraphs
a. The tragic accident
b. The lift-off
c. Congratulation
d. A view on the Earth
e. uncertainties
1. Paragraph 1
2. Paragraph 2
3. Paragraph 3
4. Paragraph 4
5. Paragraph 5

- T elicits the words one by one.
Ts instruction:
+ now, look at the picture on the
scene and tell me. What is it?...
its l qu o, th qu o in
english is.................. this is orbit.
Now, listen to me, just listen, orbit,
orbit. Ok, listen and repeat, orbit.
.

-Ask Ss to predict that which passage
following the headings.
- Listen and write on the board Ss
answers.


14 ms





II. WHILE-WRITING:

Activity 3: task 1

Suggested answers:
1. B 2. D 3. E 4. C 5. A

Activity 4: task 2 (page 168)


- Ask Ss to read the passage silently
individually to finish check their
answers for activity 2 in 5ms
- Check orally & correct if necessary
- Ask Ss to write down on the note
book.


Answer the questions by a game lucky number
Suggested answers:
1. 1. He was 27 then.
2. 2. He was in space for 108 minutes.
3. 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. 4. It was more than 17 000 miles per hour.
5. 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.
Activity 5: complete the summary of the
reading passage (page 169)
Suggested answers:
1. 1. Cosmonaut 5. gravity
2. 2. In space 6. view
3. 3. Lasted 7. impossible
4. 4. Success 8. named after

- Ask Ss to read the passage again to
answer the question in groups of four.
- T walks around to give help if
necessary.
- Check Ss answers by asking some
pairs of Ss give the questions and
answers








- T asks Ss to do the activity 5.
- Ss work individually, then compare
the answers with friends.
10 ms III. POST-WRITING:
Discussing about Yuri Gagarin
Suggested questions:
What did he do?
Whats happen to him?
Why was he honour as a hero?
- T asks Ss to discuss about Yuri
Gagarin
- T gives Ss some questions about him
- Ss practise
- T calls some Ss to speak out their
thinking about him
- T corrects.
2ms IV. HOMEWORK:
- Learn vocabulary
- read the passage again
- Prepare Lesson B: SPEAKING
- T asks Ss to listen and write on their
note book.
- T gives the instruction:
+ class, you learn vocabulary and read
the passage again. And, prepare next
lesson: SPEAKING
+ I will check your homework on next
period.
- Ss listen and write Ts requests on
your note book.