Unit8 - E11

The farmers work on the farm and the workers work in Trai Cau Iron Mine.. But now the town has changed, the towners’lives are better thanks to the new technical and advanced farming me

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My name’s Nghiem Thi Kim Quyen

I come from Trai Cau high School in Trai cau town.

Trai Cau where I live in is a small town.

The towners are farmers and workers

The farmers work on the farm and the workers work

in Trai Cau Iron Mine

Many years ago, the town was very poor and the

towners’lives were very simple.

But now the town has changed, the towners’lives are better thanks to the new technical and advanced farming

methods.

- The farmers work on the

farm and the workers work in

Trai Cau Iron Mine

- Many years ago, the town was

very poor and the towners’lives

were very simple

- But now the town has

changed , the towners’lives are

better thanks to the new

technical and advanced farming

methods

UNIT 8:

Lesson 1: Reading

Lesson A-Reading

I Before you read

II While you read

III After you read

I Before you read

I Vocabulary:

straw (n) / strɔ:/

Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud

be made of + N ….được làm từ….

What’s this?

Is the crop good or bad?

It’s a good crop / bumper crop

- bumper crop (n) / bΛmpə krop/

The wall is made of brick.

The farmers grow vegetables, corn, rice to sold.

The farmers grow cash crop to sold.

- cash crop (n) /kæ ∫ krop/

- What are the people in the picture doing?

+ They are harvesting their crop.

-How are they working?

+ They are working very hard.

- Why do they have to work hard?

+ They work hard to make their lives better.

to better their lives To better one’s life

What help farmers have bumper crops?

Farmers’hard working, weather and new farming methods

- farming methods /fa:miŋ meθəd/

- better (v) / betə/

- To better one’s life

I Before you read

- cash crop (n) /kæ ∫ krop/

- farming method /fa:miŋ meθəd/

muddy (a) / mΛdi/

TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in 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 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

4 6 8 1

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:

II While you read

1 - What was life like in the author’s village many years ago?

 It was poor and simple.

Answer

Question number 1:

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

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.

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?

Home work

* Learn by heart the new words

* Rewrite the changes of life in the village

Goodbye! Have

a nice day

A: I want to become a teacher to help the children in my home town

What about you?

B: I want to become a doctor to kill their diseases and keep them healthy

After you read

Work in pairs Discuss the following questions

What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown?

Farmers – work- machines- nowadays