Unit 3. A trip to the countryside

Raise chickens, pigs, cattle
Collect eggs
Struggle
with nature
Have a hard life
Busy all year round
Work hard
Brainstorming
Life on a
farmer
Monday, October 19th 2009

Unit 3: A trip to the countryside
Period 17: Read

Matching


a) field
b) tree
c) village
d) forest
e) air


1/ banyan
2/ home
3/ bamboo
4/ fresh
5/ paddy

A
B
Vocabulary
















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- grow maize(corn )
Trồng ngô
- work part-time
Làm việc bán thời gian
- collect eggs
Thu lượm trứng
- hamburger
Bánh mì kẹp thịt
- hot dog
Xúc xích
- grocery store
Cửa hàng tạp hoá
Do you often visit your home village?
When?
What can you see on the road
to your home village?
Look at the map. Guess and draw Ba’s trip.
Listen and check!
Listen and check!
C
D
E
B
F
Highway No1
airport
gas station
Dragon Bridge
Banyan tree
store
pond
G
I
A
Parking lot
C
H
Bamboo forest
Answer the questions
1. Where is Ba’s home village?
W est
East
North
South
2. How does Ba go to the village?
3. What could they see on paddy fields?
4. Is there a banyan tree at the entrance to Ba’s village?
1. Where is your home village?
- It’s to the W est
South
North
East
of the town
2. How far is it from here/your town?
- It’s about …… km
- It’s about 100/ 550 kilometers
3. How can you get there?
- I can get there by
4. How long does it take to get there?
It takes me about ……… (minutes/hours )
to get there
- It takes me about 30 minutes to get there
- It takes me about 4 hours to get there
- It takes me about a day to get there
5. What do people do for a living
In your village?
- They ………..
Grow rice
Grow vegetables
Raise cattle
Fish
Trade
6. Does your village have any ……..?
1. Where is your home village?
2. How far is it from here?
3. How can you get there?
- It’s to the W
E
N
S
of my town
- It’s about …… km
- I can get there by bus/ train/ coach/ plane/ motorbike …
4. How long does it take to get there?
- It takes me about ……… (minutes/hours ) to get there
5. What do people there do for living?
- They ………..
6. Does your village have any rivers?

B

To the west of the city
15 km from the city
By motorbikes
50 minutes
Plant rice and raise cattle
No river but there is a big lake
A
To the south of the city
30 km from the city
By bus
1 hour
Plant rice and vegetables
A river flowing across the village
Where is your home village?
Talk about your home village
1. Where is your home village?
2. How far is it from here?
3. How can you get there?
- It’s to the W
E
N
S
of my town
- It’s about …… km
- I can get there by bus/ train/ coach/ plane/ motorbike …
4. How long does it take to get there?
- It takes me about ……… (minutes/hours ) to get there
5. What do people there do for living?
- They ………..
6. Does your village have any rivers?
Homework
- Learn by heart new words
- Prepare Read
Goodbye see you again