Unit 4. Our past

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO HUYỆN PHÙ YÊN
TRƯỜNG THCS VÕ THỊ SÁU
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A2
Giáo viên:Trân Binh Minh
TV
Radio
Washing machine
Rice cooker
Mobilephone
Computer
Electric iron
Modern clothes
Refrigerator
Modern things
Unit 4: our past
Period 21: Getting started & Listen and read
I. Getting started
Look at the picture and talk about the names of the things that do not belong to the past
Television
radio
Mobile phone
lighting fixture
school uniform
viet nam 100 years ago
Glowing tunic
Modern clothes
Grandma: This is me, Nga. I used to live on a farm when I was a young girl.
Nga: What was life like then?
Grandma: I didn’t go to school because I had to stay home and help my mom. I used to look after my younger brothers and sisters.
Nga: What did Great-grandma do?
Grandma: She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
Nga: That sounds like hard work!
Grandma: It was. And there wasn’t any electricity. Mom had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
Nga: What did you do in the evening?
Grandma: After dinner, Mom lit the lamp and Dad used to tell us stories.
Nga: Do you remember any of them?
Grandma: Oh, yes. The best one was The Lost Shoe. It’s an old folktale.
Nga: Please tell me the tale, Grandma.
Traditional stories are great.
Grandma: All right. Once a poor farmer …
II. Listen & read :
1.practice the dialogue with apartner:
- ( to ) look after :
- equipment (n) :
- Great-grandma :
Cụ bà
- (a) folktale :
Chăm sóc
traditional (adj) :
Trang thiết bị
Câu chuyện dân gian
Truyền thống
I used to live on a farm when I was a young girl.
-->Used to :
Form :
đã từng, (thường) làm gì (diễn tả thói quen trong quá khứ )
(+) S + used to + V.......
(-) S + didn’t use to + V .......
(+) Did + S + use to + V .......?
Yes, S + did. / No, S + didn’t.

Grandma: This is me, Nga. I used to live on a farm when I was a young girl.
Nga: What was life like then?
Grandma:I didn’t go to school because I had to stay home and help my mom. I used to look after my younger brothers and sisters.
Nga: What did Great-grandma do?
Grandma: She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
Nga: That sounds like hard work!
Grandma: It was. And there wasn’t any electricity. Mom had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
Nga: What did you do in the evening?
Grandma: After dinner, Mom lit the lamp and Dad used to tell us stories.
Nga: Do you remember any of them?
Grandma: Oh, yes. The best one was The Lost Shoe. It’s an old folktale.
Nga: Please tell me the tale, Grandma. Traditional stories are great.
Grandma: All right. Once a poor farmer …
2.Work with apartner.Ask and answer the questions:
a.Where did Nga’s grandmother use to live ?
c.What did Nga’s great - grandmother use to do?
b.Why didn’t she go to school ?
d.What did Nga’s great – grandmother and great – grandfather do after dinner ?
She used to live on a farm.
Because she had to stay home and help her mom.
She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
She used to lit the lamp and he used to tell them stories.
e.What did Nga ask her grandmother to do at the end of the conversation ?
She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale “ The lost shoe”.
3.Fact or opinion ?Check () the boxes:
a. I used to live on a farm.
b.There wasn’t any electricity.
c. Mom had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
d. My father used to tell us the stories.
e. The best one was The Lost Shoe.
f. Traditional stories are great.

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Did Nga’s grandmother go to school?
a. Yes, she did
b. No, she didn`t
c. Yes, she does
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Lucky number
Nga’s grandmother....... look after her younger brothers and sisters
a. use to
b. uses to
c. used to
X
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Nga’s great-grandmother had to do everything.........the help of modern equipment.
a. without
b. with
c. in
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X
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The Lost Shoe ...... an old folktale
a. is
b. is not
c. are
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Nga thinks traditional stories are .....
a. horrible
b. great
c. boring
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Structures:
(+) S + used to + V_infi …
(-) S + didn’t +use to + V_infi …
(?) Did + S +use to + V_infi … ?
Newwords:
1) Great-grandma (n) :
Cụ bà
2) without (prep) :
không có
3) modern equipment (n) :
thiết bị hiện đại
4) light – lit/lighted (v) :
thắp , đốt (đèn)
5) folktale (n) :
truyện dân gian, truyện cổ tích
tale (n) :
Traditional story :
Homework:
Learn by heart the new words.
Make 2 sentences with used to.
- Do exercise 1,2 – page 27.
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