Unit 8. The story of my village

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A noun of place
Unit 8
THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
Reading
Look at the picture. Discuss the questions.

What are the people in the picture doing?
The farmers are harvesting the crop.

2. How are they working?
They are working very hard.

3. What do you think of the crop?
It’s a good crop.

4. What helps produce good crops?
 Good farming methods
Vocabulary
1. straw (n)
2. mud (n)
3. shortage (n)
4. introduce (v)
5. method (n)
6. result in (v)
7. bumper crop (n)
8. cash crop (n)
9. brick (n)
10. knowledge (n)
+ know (v)
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B.
Task 2: Decide these statements are True (T) or False (F).
Many years ago the villagers had to live in houses made of straw and mud.
Sometimes they go to town on their bike to do some shopping or to visit their friends.
Today, they live in brick houses.
Villagers’ lives have become better thanks to new farming methods.
They managed to send their children to school and college in spite of shortage.
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Many years ago the villagers had to live in houses made of straw and mud.
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T
Paragraph 1
Line 3,4
They managed to send their children to school and college in spite of shortage.
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Paragraph 1
Line 5,6
Sometimes they go to town on their to do some shopping or to visit their friends.
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bike
motorbike
Today, they live in brick houses.
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Paragraph 2
Line 5
Villagers’ lives have become better thanks to new farming methods.
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Paragraph 2
Task 3: Answer the following questions.
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 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?
1. What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
 It was poor and simple.
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?
 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 to 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 their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.

1. Learn by heart the new words and phrases from the passage
2. Prepare for the next lesson.
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