Unit 8. The story of my village

Unit 8: Reading
1. Warmer: GUESSING
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UNIT 8:
THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
Lesson 1: Reading
1. WARMER
Guessing
2. PRE-READING
Vocabulary
3. WHILE-READING

4. POST READING:
Discussion
5. HOMEWORK
Unit 8: The story of my village
Unit 8: The story of my village
I. Vocabulary:
mud (n):bùn
straw (n): rơm
Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud
be made of + N..được làm từ..
brick (n): gạch
Technical high school:
trường trung học kỹ thuật
This girl is a beggar.
She has to live in poverty
and shortage.
shortage (n) of :
Sự thiếu thốn
Unit 8: The story of my village
I- Pre- reading:
1. Vocabulary:
straw (n):
rơm
mud (n)muddy(a):
brick (n):
bùn
Gạch
to better one’s life
# to make one’s life better:
bumper crops
# good crops (n):

Unit 8: The story of my village
Mùa bội thu
Cải thiện cuộc sống
Shortage (n) of :
Sự thiếu thốn
His carelessness resulted in a bad accident.
resulted in : dẫn đến
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 (good) crop.
Unit 8: The story of my village
TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B
Answers:
Unit 8: The story of my village
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
Question number 1:
1- What was life like in the author`s village many years ago?
? It was poor and simple.
Answer
Key
Question number 2:
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.
Answer
Key
Question number 3:
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.
Answer
Key
Question number 4:
4- What did an
old farmer say
about the effect
of the knowledge
the young people
brought home?
Answer
Key
He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
Question number 5:
5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren?
Answer
Key
 He told his grandchildren: “Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.”
After you read:
After you read
Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions
What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown?
A: Khoa, what do you want to do in the future?
A: If you are a doctor, what can you
do to help people in your home
town?
B: I will kill their diseases and keep
them healthy. What about you?
A: I want to be an architect. I will build
lots of flats for local people to live in.
After you read
Work in pairs. Discuss the following questions
What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown?
B: I want to become a doctor
Home work
* Learn by heart the new words
* Rewrite the changes of life in the village
Goodbye! Have a nice day
Classrooms – be well-equipped- up to now
Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004
Tan Chau supermarket – being built now
Tan Chau market – build- 1997
Tan Chau bus & coach station – upgrade-
a few years ago
The road fromTan Chau to Chau Doc –widen & upraise - a year ago
Farmers – work- machines- nowadays