Unit 15 Space conquest

Preparing date: 30/03/2018
Teaching date:06/04/2018
Class:11A1
Apprentice teacher: BùiThịBíchNgọc.
Instructor: Mr. LêVănHuy

UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST
B. SPEAKING
I. Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
+ practice asking and answering questions on given information.
+talk about historical events in the space conquest.
II. Language and skills:
-Language: vocabulary related to space exploration.
- Skills: communicative skills.
III. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative approach.
IV. Teaching aids: Textbooks, board, chalk, pictures, laptop,….
V.Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

WARM UP (6 minutes):
Guessing game: Guessing the name of the picture.
- T prepares a picture and divides class into 2 teams.
- T asks Ss to choose a number at random and answer the corresponding questions. Once the question is correctly answered, one piece of the picture is opened.
- T gives the question:
What is the picture about?/
- T give comments and leads Ss into the new lesson

- Ss listen to the instructions.
-Ss do as what teacher asks.

Expected answers:
Spacecraft.

PRE-SPEAKING (10 minutes)
T introduces some new words and phrases.
T asksSs to read aloud the words in chorus and individually.
T asksSs to copy down the words into their notebook.
Vocabulary:
- The USSR: LiênXô (cũ): Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- launch /lɔ:nt∫/ (v): phóng (tàuvũtrụ), hạthuỷ (tàuthuyền)
- manned /mænd/ (adj): cóngườilái
- spacecraft /`speɪskrɑːft/ (n): tàuvũtrụ
- milestone /`mailstәʊn/ (n): mốclịchsử
- project /`prɔdʒekt/ (n): dựán.
- artificial satellite/,ɑ:ti`fi∫əl `sætəlait/ (n): vệtinhnhântạo
- Sputnik /`spʊtnik/ (n): vệtinhnhântạocủaNga
- living being (n): sinh vật sống
Structures:
- T teaches Ss how to make and answer the questions.
- T gives examples:
1. What did you play yesterday evening?
=> I played computer games.
2. When does our mother go to work?
=> She goes to work at 6 o`clock.
3. Where have you got your ruler?
=> I`ve got it in my pencil case.
-T asks Ss to give the structure.
Form:
Question word+Auxiliary+Subject+Verb+Rest?
Subject+Auxiliary+Verb+Rest.
A list of verbs that function as auxiliaries:
be (am, are, is, was, were, being, been), can, could, dare, do (does, did), have (has, had, having), may, might, must, need, ought, shall, should, will, would.

-Ss listen and take notes.
-Ss listen to the teacher and say aloud the words.
- Ss copy down the words into the notebook.














WHILE-SPEAKING (23 minutes)
Task 1: Work in groups.
Rearrange these questions and answer them
- T helpsSs read the passagein textbook on page170 and underline important information to rearrange the questions and answer them.
- T asksSs to work in groups of 6 Ss in 2 minutes.
- T calls on some Ss to practice in front of the class.
- T gives feedbacks.
Questions:
1. What/ the name/ is/ of/ China’s first manned spacecraft?
2. What/ of / the astronaut/ the name /is?
3. How/he/ when/ / into space/old/ he / flew/ was?
4. How important/ of China/ flight/ the successful / is?
5. How many/ independently/ manned space flights/ countries in the world/ have been / able to carry out? What are they?









Task 2:Work in groups.
Ss take turns to talk about the important events in space exploration.
- T teaches Ss how to speak out the dates.
- T reads the example and what students are going to do.
- T asks Ss to read the task to make sure whether they understand the events.
- T divides the Ss into 8 groups. Each group talks about an event given on page 171 of the textbook.
- T calls on some representatives to talk about the events in front of the class.
- T gives comments and feedbacks.
Example: On 4th October, 1957, the USSR launched its first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into space. It marked the beginning of Space Age.
On ....................., ……....became the first .................