UNIT 8 - READING

Why are so many people leaving their home?. Typhoonn: Trận bão lớn flood n: drought n: tragedy n: increase v: Supply v : migrant n: cơn lũ trận hạn hán bi kịch cung cấp tăng lên người

Tuesday December, 7 th , 2010

What are these people doing?

They are

selling

newspapers.

What are these women doing?

They are

selling fruit

along streets.

What are these women and

men doing?

They are

waiting for

jobs.

Why are so many people leaving their home?

What problems do they cause?

Typhoon(n): Trận bão lớn flood (n):

drought (n):

tragedy (n):

increase (v):

Supply (v) :

migrant

(n):

cơn lũ trận hạn hán

bi kịch

cung cấp tăng lên người di cư

= rise

otello

II Read

Governments all over the world

to provide facilities for the migrants

Children have to live at home with

relatives while their parents live and work in

cities

The increase in population in many cities

problems

to schools, hospitals, water and electricity

supplies

Farmers easily lose their harvests

because of typhoons, floods or droughts

Countryside people move to the city

because they want to find well – paying jobs

b

c

d

1 Prediction

1 Prediction

e

a

any doesn’t causecauses

are not trying

are trying some

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II Read

1 rural area 2 Matching

2 a well paying job –

3 urban area

4 (to) live apart

5 (to) put a strain on

6 overcrowding (n)

7 a struggle with nature

a sống cách xa nhau

b dẫn đến sự quá tải

c vùng nông thôn

d công việc được trả lương cao

h quá đông người

e cuộc đấu tranh với thiên nhiên

g vùng đô thị

3 Read 1: Complete the summary Use the

information from the passage

People from the countryside are (1) their (2) to go and live in the (3) _ Farming can sometimes be a difficult life and these people from (4) areas feel the (5) _ offers more

opportunities However, many people coming to the city create (6) _ There may not be enough (7) _

or (8) _, while water and electricity supplies may not be adequate This is a (9) _ facing governments around the (10) _.

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h

p w

eaving

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roblem orld

a of the countryside

b as many as needed

c become greater or larger

d a great pressure

f of the city or city life

e a terrible event

4 Read 2: Find the words in the passage that means

a of the countryside

b as many as needed

* Read passage 3 again and find the word that means:

c become greater or larger

d a great pressure

* Read passage 4 again and find the word that means:

f of the city or city life

e a terrible event

* Read passage 1 again and find the word that means:

4 Read 2:

a. of the

countryside

b. as many as needed

c. become greater or

larger d. a great pressure

e. a terrible

event

f. of the city or city

life

a rural

b plentiful

c

increase

d strain

e tragedy

f urban

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Lucky animal

50

10

10

Lucky animal

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1 Learn by heart the new words

2 Write a passage about the reasons why many people are leaving their

home for the city and problems they cause, using the given words.

3 Prepare for the next lesson:

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