Unit 8. The story of my village

UNIT 8
Giáo viên: Phạm Tuấn Anh
Trường THPTDL Trần Quang Khải
Lesson 1: Reading
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Work in pairs.
Look at the picture and then discuss the question.
1. What are the people in the picture doing?
2. How are they working?
3. What do they think of the crop?
4. What helps produce good crops?
Answer:
1. They are working on the farm
2. They are working very hard
3. The crop is very good
4. Machine
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Task 1: The words in A appear in reading passage. Match them with their definition in B

Answer keys
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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 children?
3. How did the children help 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?
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Task 3. Answer the following questions.
1. What was life like in the author’s village many years ago ?
- My village was very poor and simple
2. Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their children?
- They hope 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 method, which resulted in bumper crops.

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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 brought home.
5. What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?
- He told his grandchildren to study harder so that they could do even more for the village than their parents had done.
Lesson 1:Reading
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