Unit 8- Reading

Teacher: Nguyen Dinh Hung
NGOC TAO HIGH SCHOOL
Period 43: UNIT 8

The story of my village
A. Reading
(Page 82, 83)
Work in pairs. Look at the picture. Discuss the questions
3. What are they doing?
4. How are they working?
5. What do you think of the crop?
6. What helps produce good crops?
Before you read
1. Who are these people?
2. Where are they?
Pre-reading vocabulary:
straw (n):
mud (n):
shortage (n):
farming method (n):
brick (n):
dry, cut stems of rice
wet, soft soil
lack of something
method of using land for growing
crops and raising animals
baked clay used for building
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B
A
B
1. make ends meet
2. in need of many things
3. bettering one’s life
4. bumper crops
5. cash crops
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay
for the things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops
While you read
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B
A
B
make ends meet
(KiÕm ®ñ sèng)

in need of many things
(thiÕu thèn nhiÒu thø)
bettering one’s life
(c¶i thiÖn cuéc sèng cña ai ®ã)
bumper crops
(mïa mµng béi thu)
cash crops
(c©y trång th­¬ng phÈm)
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay
for the things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops


Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes
in the village. Complete the following table:
Areas of change
Before
now
houses
radio and TV
Farming
methods
crops
travel
made of straw and mud
motorbike
made of brick
few families had

many families have

old
new
poor
good/bumper
no information
Task 3: Answer the following questions:
What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
Why did the villagers want to send their children to school
and college in spite of their shortages?
How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village
when they finished college or technical high school?
What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge
the young people brought home?
What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
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4
5
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5
Congratulation!
1. What was life like in the author’s village many
years ago?
It was very poor and simple.
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to
school and college in spite of their shortages?
Because they hoped that with an education of
science and technology, their children could find a
way of bettering their lives.
3. How did the children help improve the lifestyle in
the village when they finished college or technical
high school?
They introduced new farming methods, which
resulted in bumper crops. They also helped the
villagers grow cash crops for export.
4. What did an old farmer say about the effect of the
knowledge the young people brought home?
He said that their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children brought home.
5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
He told them to study harder so that they could do
more for the village than their parents did.
Tell some changes in your village, using the suggestions bellow:
1. Houses :
Small,mud and straw,… >< big,high,brick…
2. furnitures:
Few families had a TV, radio >< many families have a lot of valueable thing (colour TV, telephone ,video, ,gas stove….)
3. Farming methods:
Old, less productive/work very hard >< morden, new,productive/not very hard
4. Living standard:
Low/not enough rice to eat / in need many things >5. education:
Not many children had chance to go to school >< all children can go to school even university or post-granduatestudies….
6. travel:
On foot >< motorbike, bus, car….
Period 43: Unit 8

The story of my village
A. Reading
Before you read
Discussing the questions
While you read
Task 1: Matching words
Task 2: Completing the table
Task 3: Answering the questions
3. After you read
Telling about some changes in your village
Home work
* Learn by heart the new words
* Rewrite the changes of life in your village
Thank you very much for your attention!