Unit 3. A trip to the countryside

WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
Teacher: Trần Thanh Đoan
Lê Lợi School, District 3
Word guessing game
This word has 6 letters.
It consists of a lot of rooms and a playground.
Sometimes it’s very noisy.
It’s a place where teachers teach and children learn.
school
Word guessing game
This word has 7 letters.
It’s a place with lots of trees and plants far from the city center
There are few high buildings, but many rice fields in one.
It’s situated in a country area.
village
Unit 3:
A trip to the countryside.
Getting started
2. swimming in the river.
3. collecting the eggs.
4. harvesting the crop.
5. feeding the pig.
6. plowing in the field.
7. flying a kite.
8. playing soccer.
1. watering the vegetables.
Listen and read
Listen and answer the questions:
1. How far is it from Ha Noi to Ba’s home village?
2. What did they do in the afternoon?
banyan tree
bank
shrine
entrance
New words:
entrance (n):
? enter (v):
shrine (n):
bank (n):
banyan tree (n):
Unit 3:
Part: Listen and read
BACK
1. Ba and his family had a two-day trip to their
home village.
2. Many people like going there for their weekends.
3. There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance
to the village.
4. Liz had a snack at the house of Ba’s uncle.
5. There is a shrine on the mountain near Ba’s
village.
6. Everyone had a picnic on the mountain.
7. Everyone left the village late in the evening.
8. Liz had a videotape to show the trip to her
parents.
9. Liz wants to go there again.
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GROUP-WORK:
True or False?
# a day trip
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# big old banyan tree
# took a lot of photos
# river bank
Check the boxes. Correct the false statements.
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# under the banyan tree
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LUCKY NUMBER
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3
4
5
6
7
8
2
entrance
Checking vocabulary:
Match the vocabulary with the pictures:
snack
bank
banyan tree
journey
shrine
plow
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2
4
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Game: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B.
A
1. shrine
2. travel
3. entrance
4. banyan tree
5. snack
6. opportunity
7. collect
8. countryside
B
a) a good chance
b) a small, quick meal
c) bring things together
d) make journey, go from place to place
e) a place of worship
f) where you can enjoy the fresh air
g) where you can go into a place
h) a big tree whose branches come down to the ground and take roots.
Keys: 1…. 2…. 3…. 4…. 5…. 6…. 7…. 8….
e
d
g
h
a
f
c
b
Make a list of the activities that Ba & Liz did in the countryside
travel between the green paddy fields
cross a small bamboo forest
walk up the mountain
visit the shrine of a Vietnamese hero
go boating
have a picnic on the river bank
Make a dialogue from the text.
Country life
Compare: country life and city life.
City life
- Learn vocabulary by heart.
- Practice reading the text/p23
- Prepare: U3. Speak and listen (p 24, 25)
Homework:
Thanks for listening
Goodbye! See you next time.
Where is Ba’s village?
 It’s about 60 kilometers to the north of Ha Noi.
2. How did Ba and his family get to the village?
 They got to the village by bus.
Lucky number
3. Where is the banyan tree?
 The banyan tree is at the entrance to the village.
4. What did they see on the mountain?
 They saw the shrine of a Vietnamese hero on the mountain.

 They had their picnic on the river bank.
5. Where did they have their picnic?
6. What did Liz do to show the trip to her parents?
 She took a lot of photos to show the trip to her parents.
7. What does Liz wish?
 She wishes she could visit Ba’s village again.