Unit 8. The story of my village

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UNIT 8
Part A: READING
Vocabulary
Mud (n)

Straw (n):
be made of + N : ..được làm từ..
Ex : In the past , my house was made of straw and mud

Brick ( n ) : gaïch
technical high school
trường trung học kỹ thuật

This girl is a beggar.
She has to live in poverty
and shortage .
Shortage of (n) :
Sự thiếu thốn .
Copy down the new words
mud (n)
Straw (n)
Make ends meet
Poverty (n)
Shortage (n)
Brick (n)
Cash crop (n) crops for sell or export
Farming method
Change (v) become different
Result in
Lifestyle (n)

Look at the picture and answer the following questions
1. What are the people in the picture doing?.
They are harvesting.





4. What helps produce good crops? .
Good farming methods , good weather ,
conditions ,…
3. What do you think of the crop?
It is a bumper crop.
2. How are they working? .
They are working hard .
The farmers are
harvesting
their crops
TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B .
Answers:
TASK 2: Read the text carefully then complete the following table:
old methods,
by hand
made of bricks
many families have
radios and TV set
new methods ,
with machines

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
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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:
Question number 1 :
1- What was life like in the author`s village many years ago ? .
1- 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 ? .
2-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? .
3- 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
4- 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
5- He told his grandchildren:
“ Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did ” .

POST-READING : Choose the best answer for the following sentences :

Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet .





Everything has changed since he returned .







They apply new farming methods to get bumper crops .

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
B. Cash crops
C. Bad crops
D. Crops for selling
HOMEWORK :
Learn by heart the new words .
Read the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese .
Do the reading in workbook .
Prepare for the Speaking Part .