Unit 8: THE STORY Ò MY VILLAGE (READING)

TRƯỜNG THPT BÀN TÂN ĐỊNH TIẾNG ANH 10, UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE READTÁC GIẢ: TRẦN THỊ NHƯ NGỌC... have just enough money to pay for the things that you need 3.. have just eno

TRƯỜNG THPT BÀN TÂN ĐỊNH TIẾNG ANH 10, UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE (READ)

TÁC GIẢ: TRẦN THỊ NHƯ NGỌC

Look at the following pictures and answer the questions

What is the name of this animal?

Where is this?

What are they doing?

Who are they?

- export ['ekspɔ:t] (n):

dẫn đến

- farming methods ['fɑ:miη] ['meθədz] (n):

* Vocabulary

- introduce [intrə'dju:s] (v): giới thiệu.

sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu.

các phương pháp canh tác

- result (in) [ri'zʌlt] (v):

cash crop

► brick house

brick (n) [brik] : gạch

mud (n) [mʌd] : bùn

straw (n) [strɔ:] : rơm

Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage.

Match them with their definitions in B.

1. make ends meet a. making one’s life better

2. in need of many things b. have just enough money to pay for the things that you need

3. bettering one’s life c. crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it

4. bumper crops d. having to have many things that you do not have

thiếu thốn nhiều thứ.

cải thiện cuộc sống (của ai đó)

mùa màng bội thu.

kiếm đủ sống.

1 make ends meet b have just enough money to

pay for the things that you need

2 in need of many things d having to have many things

that you do not have

3 bettering one’s life a making one’s life better

5 cash crops c crops to be sold, not for use

Years ago the villagers were still poor

straw

brick

TASK 3 : Read the text carefully then complete the following table:

Few families had a radio or a TV set

Many families had radios and TV set old methods,

by buffalo new methodsmachine/

more to sell

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?

TASK 4: 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?

 Because they hoped that with an education of

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?

He said :”Our lives have

changed a lot thanks to the

What will you do to help your village when you have the chance?

Build more big and convenient houses

Build a new stadium for children

Widen the roads

Pay attention to taking care of children

Widen the roads and plant more cash crops

Homework

• Learn by heart new word

• Read the text again and

into Vietnamese

• Do the reading in workbook

• Prepare for the Speaking lesson