Unit 8. The story of my village

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TIẾNG ANH 10, UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE (READ)
TÁC GIẢ: TRẦN THỊ NHƯ NGỌC
Look at the following pictures
and answer the questions
What is the name of this animal?
buffalo
Where is this?
In a field
What are they doing?
They are transplanting
Who are they?
They are farmers
Unit 8: The story of my village
Part A : Reading
- export [`ekspɔ:t] (n):
dẫn đến
- farming methods [`fɑ:miη] [`meθədz](n):
* Vocabulary
- introduce [intrə`dju:s] (v):
giới thiệu.
sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu.
các phương pháp canh tác
- result (in) [ri`zʌlt] (v):
cash crop
► brick house
brick (n) [brik] :
gạch
mud (n) [mʌd] :bùn
straw (n) [strɔ:]: rơm
shortage(n) [`∫ɔ:tidʒ] of :
Sự thiếu thốn
bumper crop(n):
vụ mùa bội thu
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B.
thiếu thốn nhiều thứ.
cải thiện cuộc sống (của ai đó)
mùa màng bội thu.
cây trồng để thu hoa lợi.
kiếm đủ sống.
1. make ends meet
b. have just enough money to pay for the things that you need
2. in need of many things
d. having to have many things that you do not have
3. bettering one’s life
a. making one’s life better
4. bumper crops
e. good crops.
5. cash crops
c. crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it
Years ago the villagers were still poor
*
*
Although the villagers were poor, they sent their children to school or college
*
*
Today, the villagers live in many
houses
*
Villagers’ lives have become better thank
to new farming methods
*
*
T
Many years ago the villagers’ lives were not simple.
1
2
3
4
5
Task 2: Decide these statements are True (T) or False (F).
F
T
F
T
straw
brick
TASK 3: Read the text carefully then complete the following
table:
made of straw
and mud
made of bricks
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
Many families had
radios and TV set
old methods,
by buffalo
machine/
new methods
poor/ enough to eat
bumper/
more to sell
on foot/by bikes
by motorbikes
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 4: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
It was poor and simple.
Key
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?
Key
He said :”Our lives have changed a lot thanks to the knowledge our children brought home”.
5- What exactly
did the old farmer
tell his grandchildren?
Key
 He told his grandchildren: “Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”

What will you do to help your village when you have the chance?
Build more big and convenient houses
Build a new stadium for children
Widen the roads
Pay attention to taking care of children
Widen the roads and plant more cash crops

Homework
Learn by heart new word
Read the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese
Do the reading in workbook
Prepare for the Speaking lesson