Unit 8. The story of my village

Teacher: Nguyen Thi Binh
NGOC TAO HIGH SCHOOL
Period43: Unit 8

The story of my village
A. Reading
(Page 82, 83)
Work in pairs. Look at the picture. Discuss the questions
1. What are the people in the picture doing?
2. How are they working?
3. How is the crops?
4. What helps produce good crops?
Before you read
1. What are the people in the picture doing?
2. How are they working?
They’re working very hard.
They are working on the field
3. How is the crop?
It is a very good crop
4. What helps produce good crops?
Good weather.
Pre-reading vocabulary:
straw (n):
mud (n):
shortage (n):
farming method (n):
brick (n):
dry, cut stems of rice
wet, soft soil
lack of something
method of using land for growing
crops and raising animals
baked clay used for building
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B
A
B
1. make ends meet
2. in need of many things
3. bettering one’s life
4. bumper crops
5. cash crops
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay
for the things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops
While you read
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.
Match them with their definitions in B
A
B
make ends meet
in need of many things
bettering one’s life
bumper crops
cash crops
a. making one’s life better
b. have just enough money to pay
for the things that you need
c. crops to be sold, not for use
by the people who grow it
d. having to have many things that
you do not have
e. good crops


Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes
in the village. Complete the following table:
Areas of change
Before
now
houses
radio and TV
farming methods
crops
travel
made of straw and mud
motorbike
made of brick
few families had

many families have

old
new
poor
good/bumper
no information
Task 3: Answer the following questions:
What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?
Why did the villagers want to send their children to school
and college in spite of their shortages?
How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village
when they finished college or technical high school?
What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge
the young people brought home?
What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
1
2

3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
Congratulation!
1. What was life like in the author’s village many
years ago?
It was very poor and simple.
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to
school and college in spite of their shortages?
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 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 that their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children brought home.
5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
He told them to study harder so that they could do
more for the village than their 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
Period43: Unit 8

The story of my village
A. Reading
Before you read
While you read
Task 1: Matching words
Task 2: Completing the table
Task 3: Answering the questions
3. After you read
Home work
* Learn by heart the new words
* Rewrite the changes of life in the village
Thank you very much for your attention!