Unit 8. The story of my village

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Teacher: Nguyen Thi Hong
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UNIT 8:
THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
Lesson 1: Reading
Look at the picture and answer the following questions

1.What are the people in the picture doing?
2.How are they working?
3.What do you think of the crop?
4.What helps produce good crops?

Before you read.
Unit 8: The story of my village
1. Vocabulary:
mud (n):bùn
straw (n): rơm
Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud
be made of + N..: duoc lam bang..
brick (n): gạch
Technical high school:
Truong trung hoc ki thuat
This girl is a beggar.
She has to live in poverty
and shortage.
shortage (n) :
Sự thiếu thốn
Unit 8: The story of my village
I-Before you read.
1. Vocabulary:
straw
: rơm
mud (n)muddy(a):
brick (n):
bùn
Gạch




Unit 8: The story of my village
Shortage (n) :
Sự thiếu thốn
resulted in
2. Checking vocabulary.
His carelessness …………….a bad accident.
The farmer used …………..to burn the tiger.
: dẫn đến
TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B
Answers:
II. While you read.
TASK 2: Read the text carefully then complete the following table:
old methods,
by buffalo
made of bricks
Many families have
radios and TV set
machine/
new methods
bumper/
more to sell
made of straw
and mud
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
2
3
5
4
6
8
1
10
9
poor/ enough to eat
7
1- What was life like in the author`s village many years ago?
2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?
3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?
4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?
5- What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
TASK 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
Unit 8: The story of my village
4. What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?
He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
(Lines 1,2, paragraph 3)
1.What was life like in the author`s village many years ago?
It was poor and simple
(Line 2,3, 4, paragraph 2)
(Line 3, paragraph 1)
You are very lucky
You get 30 points
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortages?
Because they hope that with an education of science and technology their children could find a way of bettering their lives.
They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped grow cash crops for export.
(Lines 6,7,8 paragraph 1)
5.What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
He told his grandchildren: "Study harder so that you can do more for the village than your parents did."
(Lines 3,4, paragraph 3)
3. How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?
After you read
Tell about the changes of the village
from the past until now.
After you read
Tell about the changes of our school from the past until now.
After you read
Truong PTDTNT nam hoc: 1994- 1995.
Tell about the changes of our school from the past until now.
After you read:
After you read
Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions
Discuss about the changes of our school from the past until now.
After you read
Look at the pictures and tell about the changes of our school.
Nam hoc: 1994- 1995
Nam hoc: 2009-2010
After you read
Tell about the changes of our school from the past until now.
Truong PTDTNT Ba Vi
Who ?
After you read:
After you read
Look at the pictures and tell about the changes of our school.
Who?
After you read:
After you read
Discuss the changes of our school from the past until now
Home work
Learn by heart the new words
Write a paragraph about 150 words to tell
about the changes of your village.
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Prepare: Speaking.
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