Unit 8. The story of my village

1. Warmer:
The story of my village
Unit 8:
A. Reading
Look at the picture and answer the following questions
1. What are the people in the picture doing? They are harvesting.
4. What help produce good crop? Good farming methods, good weather conditions...
2. How are they working? They are working hard
3. What do you think of the crop? It is a bumper crop.
Mud (n):
Straw (n):
Vocabulary:
Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud
be made of + N .......được làm từ
technical high school
Brick (n):
This girl is a beggar. She has to live in poverty and shortage.
Shortage (n) of:
Sự thiếu thốn
The villagers live in poverty
farmer
The farmers areharvesting their crops
The farmer is ploughing
buffaloes
field
bridge
river
New words:
mud(n)
Change(v)become different
Farming method
Cash crop(n)crops for sell or export
Brick(n)
Shortage(n)
Poverty(n)
Straw(n)
1- make ends meet
5- cash crops
4- bumper crops
3- bettering one’s life
2- in need of many things
e. good crops
d. having to have many things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for
use by the people who grow it
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay for the things you need
Task1:
Match the world in A with their definitions in B
A
B
Task 2:
Match the world in A with their definitions in B
old methods,
by buffalo
made of straw
and mud
Few families had a
radio or a TV set
Poor/ enough to eat
on foot/by bikes
Made of bricks
Many families have
radios and TV set
Machine/
new methods
Bumper/
more to sell
By motorbikes
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 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?
1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
1- It was poor and simple.
2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?
2- 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.
5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren?
He told his grandchildren: “Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”
Choose the best answer for the following sentences:
4. POST-READING
A. Get plenty of food
B. Better their lives
C. Earn enough money for living
D. Apply new farming method
A. Become old
B. Become sick
C. Become better
D. Become different
A. Good crops
C. Bad crops
B. Cash crops
D. Crops for selling
3. They apply new farming methods to get bumper crops
2. Everything has changed since he returned.
Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet.
C
D
A
- 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
HOMEWORK