Unit 4. Our past

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UNIT 4: OUR PAST
LESSON 1:
Getting Started + Listen and Read
GETTING STARTED
Look at the picture. Write the names of the things that do not belong to the past.
VIET NAM 100 YEARS AGO
stereo
television
lighting fixture
school uniform
modern clothes
school bag
modern dress
trousers
shirt
mobile phone
LISTEN AND READ
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 evenings?

Grandma: After dinner, Mom lit the lamp and Dad used to tell us stories.

Nga: Do you remember any thing 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 of the poor farmer …
NEW WORDS:
- great-grandma (n) = great-grandmother (n):
- folktale (n) = traditional story (n):
Ex:
The Lost Shoe is an old folktale.
- light (v): lit (past)
- modern equipments (n):
Ex:
My grandmother had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
My father used to smoke last year.
Ex:
Now he doesn’t smoke.
used to + V-infi: tell about the things that people
usually did in the past
NEW WORDS:
- great-grandma (n) = great-grandmother (n):
- folktale = traditional story (n):
- modern equipment (n):
- folktale = traditional story (n):
- light (v): lit (past)
1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
2. Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions.
a) Where did Nga’s grandmother use to live?
b) Why didn’t she go to school?
c) What did Nga’s great-grandmother use to do?
d) 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?
She used to live on a farm.
Because she had to stay home and help her mom. (She used to look after her younger brothers and sisters).
She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
Her great-grandmother lit the lamp and her great-grandfather used to tell them stories.
She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale “The Lost Shoe”.
3. Fact or opinion?
- Opinion:
- Fact:
something that is true or real (sự thật)
personal idea (ýkiến cá nhân)
Ex:
a) Lan is a student.
b) She is a beautiful girl.
Opinion
Fact
F O
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 stories.
e) The best one was The Lost Shoe.
f) Traditional stories are great.
3. Fact or opinion? Check ( ) the boxes.
MORE EXERCISE
* Name some things that belong to the past and now.
Houses:
Clothes:
-Means of transports:
Entertainments:
-Life: …
-Children:
Learn the new words by heart.

-Write some things that belong to the past.

-Write 4 sentences: 2 sentences are fact, 2 sentences are opinion

-Do the exercises: 1, 2, 3 in workbook

-Prepare: Speak and Listen
Homework
- I used to visit Ha Long Bay when I was young.
used to (v): tell about the things that people
usually did in the past
Ex:
- Lan didn’t use to visit Ha Long Bay.
- Did you use to visit Ha Long Bay?
Form:
MORE EXERCISES
1. Answer the question:
What did Nga’s grandmother use to do?
- She / live / farm
- She / look / brothers / sisters
She used to live on a farm.
She used to look after her younger brothers and sisters.
- Did all of the children go to school?
- Do you know the life of the people 100 years ago?
- Do you live with your grandparents?
- Do you like folktales?
- Do your grandparents always tell you the story?
1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
- What are they talking about?
What did Nga’s grandma
use to do?
* Name some things that belong to the past
Ex:
MORE EXERCISE
Children used to stay at home to do chores.
But now they go to school.
* Talk about the life in the past and now
Ex:
- Clothes: traditional clothes – modern clothes
- Houses: big houses, high buildings – small houses, cottages
- Entertainments: play on the fields, around the house – watch TV ….
- Transports: bike, car, motorbike …… - on foot
- Life: …
Children used to stay at home to help their parents.
But now they go to school.
NEW WORDS:
- great-grandma (n) = great-grandmother (n):
- folktale = traditional story (n):
- used to (v):
Ex:
I used to live in CHM City.
- have to (v): had to
- modern equipment (n):
Ex:
She had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
Ex:
The Lost Shoe is an old folktale.
- tale (n):
Past
Present
-What do the children often do now?
-What did they do in the past?
LISTEN AND READ.
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 evenings?

Grandma: After dinner, Mom lit the lamp and Dad used
to tell us stories.

Nga: Do you remember any thing 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 of the poor farmer …
Learn the new words by heart.

-Write some things that belong to the past.

-Write 4 sentences: 2 sentences are fact, 2 sentences are opinion

-Do the exercises: 1, 2 in workbook

-Prepare: Speak and Listen
Homework.