Unit 8.A.reading

Good farming methods, good weather conditions.... Task 2: Match the world in A with their definitions in BAreas of change In the past At the present Houses Radio &TV Farming methods Cr

1 Warmer :

Unit 8:

A Reading

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.

Mud (n): Straw (n):

Vocabulary:

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

be made of + N được làm từ

technical high school Brick (n):

This girl is a beggar She has to live in poverty and shortage

- Shortage (n) of: Sự thiếu thốn

The villagers live in poverty

farmer

The farmers are harvesting their crops

The farmer is ploughing

buffaloes

river

New words:

mud(n)

Change(v)become different

Farming method

Cash crop(n)crops for sell or export

Brick(n)

Shortage(n)

Poverty(n)

Straw(n)

1- make ends meet

5- cash crops

4- bumper crops

3- bettering one’s life

2- in need of many things

e good crops

d having to have many things that you need

c crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it

a making one’s life better

b have just enough money to pay for the things you need

Task1: Match the world in A with their definitions in B

Task 2: Match the world in A with their definitions in B

Areas of

change In the past At the present

Houses

Radio &TV

Farming

methods

Crops

Travel

old methods,

by buffalo

made of straw and mud

Few families had a radio or a TV set

Poor/ enough to eat

on foot/by bikes

Made of bricks

Many families have radios and TV set Machine/

new methods Bumper/

more to sell

By motorbikes

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 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?

1- What was life like in the

author’s village many years ago?

1- It was poor and simple

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

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.

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 had brought home

5- What exactly did the

old farmer tell his

grandchildren?

He told his grandchildren:

“Study harder so that you

can do even more for the

village than your parents

did.”

Choose the best answer for the following sentences:

4 POST-READING

A Get plenty of food B Better their lives

A Become old B Become sick

C Become better D Become different

A Good crops

C Bad crops

B Cash crops

D Crops for selling

3 They apply new farming methods to get

3 They apply new farming methods to get bumper cropsbumper crops

2 Everything has

2 Everything has changedchanged since he returned

1 Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meetMany peasants find it difficult to make ends meet.

C

D A

- 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

HOMEWORK