Unit 8. The story of my village

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UNIT 8
Lesson 1: Reading
1. WARMER
Guessing
2. PRE-READING
Vocabulary
3. WHILE-READING

4. POST READING:
multiple choice question

5. HOMEWORK
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): gach
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
Copy down the new words
mud (n)
Straw (n)
Poverty (n)
Shortage (n)
Brick (n)
Cash crop (n) crops for sell or export
Farming method
Change (v) become different


Listen to the tape
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.
farmer
The villagers live in poverty
The farmers are
harvesting
their crops

The farmer is ploughing


buffaloes
field
river
bridge
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 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
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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.”

4. 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 new word
Read the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese
Do the reading in workbook
Prepare for the Speaking lesson
TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B
Answers:
The answers of the questions
1- It was poor and simple.
2-Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.
3. They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops. They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export.
4- He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.
5- He told his grandchildren: " Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did."

3. While-reading
Task 1: Matching
Task 2: Complete the table
Task 3: Answer the questions
Many years ago, my village was very poor. The villager had to work hard in the field all day and could hardly make ends meet
Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things. Many people had to live in houses made of straw and mud, and a few families had a radio or a TV set.
However, in spite of the shortages, the villagers managed to send their children to school and college.
They hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives
The children have met their parents’ wishes. When they came back from college or technical high school, they introduced new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops.
They also helped the villagers grow cash crop for export. Soon, the lifestyle of my village changed
Today, people live in brick houses. In the evening, they can listen to the news on the radio or watch TV for entertainment.. Sometimes they go to town on their motorbikes to do some shopping or to visit their friends.
“ Our lives have changed a lot thanks to the knowledge our children brought home” said an old farmer, “and I always tell my grandchildren to study harder so that they can do even more for the village than their parents did”
Reading
Many years ago, my village was very poor. The villager had to work hard in the field all day and could hardly make ends meet. Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things. Many people had to live in houses made of straw and mud, and a few families had a radio or a TV set. However, in spite of the shortages, the villagers managed to send their children to school and college. They hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.

The children have met their parents’ wishes. When they came back from college or technical high school, they introduced new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops.

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