Unit 4. Our past

Truong Quang Trong secondary school
Welcome to class 8C
Welcome to class 8C
GETTING STARTED
Look at the picture. Write the names of the things that do not belong to the past
mobiblephone
Radio
Television
Lighting fixture
School Bag

Uniform school
I.Vocabulary:
electricity n (điện
) withou :t ) ( prep :không
equipment (n) :thiết bị
(to) lose :mất, thất lạc
folktale (n) :chuyện dân gian
traditional (n) :truyền thống
Grandma: This is me, Nga. T 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 had to look afer my younger brother and sisier.
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 electrycity. 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 ma the tale, Grandma. Traditional stories are great.
Grandma: All right. Once a poor farmer ...
1.Listen the conversation between Nga nad her Grandma:
2.Practice the dialouge with a partner.
3.Answer the questions.(Lucky numbers)
Where did Nga`s Grandmother use to live?

Why didn`t she go to school?

What did Nga`s Great-grandmother use to do?

What did Nga`s Great-grandmother and Great-grandfather do after dinner?


e) What did Nga ask her Grandmother to do at the end of the conversation?
- Nga`s grandmother used to live on afarm.

- Because she had to stay at home to help her mom look after her younger brother and sister.

- Nga`s Great-grandmother used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.

After dinner, Nga`s Great-grandmother lit the lamp and Nag`s Great-grandfathe rused to tell stories.

- She asked her Grandmother to tell her the story "The Lost Shoe".
F
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I used to live on a farm.
There wasn`t any electrycity.
Mom had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
The best one was The Lost Shoe.
Traditional stories are great.
My father used to tell us stories.
4.Fact or Opinion:
SPEAK
1.Look at the picture. Talk about the way things used to be and the way they are now.
*Suggest:
- Traffic
- House
- Clothes
- Children
- Electricity
People used to live in thatched cottages. Now, people live in large houses or buildings.
People used to travel on foot. Now, they travel by bike, motorbike, car, bus, ...
People used to work hard all the time.
SPEAK
2. Tell your partner about the things you used to do last years. (Homework)
EX: Last year T used to get up late. Now, T get up early and do morning exercise.
do morning exercise
1.Listen the story. Write the letter of the most suitable moral lesson.
Don`t kill the chicken.
Don`t be foolish and greedy
Be happy with what you have.
It`s difficult to find gold.
Once a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family. His chicken laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing for his family.
One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He should excitedly to his wife, "We`re rich! We`re rich!"
His wife ran to him and they both looked at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut opn all the chickens and find more gold eggs. Unfortunately he couldn`t find any eggs. When he finished all the chicken were dead. There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wife.
READ
1.Read the story"The Lost Shoe":
2.Complete the sentences:
Little Pea`s father was a_____.
Little Pea`s mother____when she was young.
Little Pea___ to do the housework all day after her father got married_____.
The Prince wanted to_____ a girl from Little Pea`s village.
Stout Nut`s mother did not make ________ for Little Pea.
The Prince found Little Pea`s___ shoe.
famer
died
had
again
marry
new clothes
lost