unit 8- Reading

Match them with their definitions in B bettering one’s life cải thiện cuộc sống của ai đó bumper crops mùa màng bội thu cash crops cây trồng th ơng phẩm a.. Task 3: Answer the follow

Teacher: Nguyen Dinh Hung

NGOC TAO HIGH SCHOOL

Period 43: UNIT 8

The story of my village

A Reading

(Page 82, 83)

Work in pairs Look at the picture Discuss the questions

3 What are they doing?

4 How are they working?

5 What do you think of the crop?

6 What helps produce good crops?

Before you read

1 Who are these people?

2 Where are they?

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

Match them 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 that 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

e good crops

While you read

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

Match them with their definitions in B

bettering one’s life

(cải thiện cuộc sống của ai đó)

bumper crops

(mùa màng bội thu)

cash crops

(cây trồng th ơng phẩm)

a making one’s life better

b have just enough money to pay for the things that 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

e good crops

While you read

Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes

in the village Complete the following table:

Task 3: Answer the following questions:

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

Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortages?

How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?

What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home?

What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

While you read

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

It was very poor and simple.

2 Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortages?

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 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 that their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children brought home.

5 What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

He told them to study harder so that they could do more for the village than their parents did.

Tell some changes in your village, using the suggestions bellow:

After you read

1 Houses : Small,mud and straw,… >< big,high,brick …

2 furnitures: Few families had a TV, radio >< many

families have a lot of valueable thing (colour TV, telephone ,video, ,gas stove….)

3 Farming

methods:

Old, less productive/work very hard ><

morden, new,productive/not very hard

4 Living

standard:

Low/not enough rice to eat / in need many things ><have a proper life

5 education: Not many children had chance to go to

school >< all children can go to school even university or post-granduatestudies….

Period 43: Unit 8

The story of my village

A Reading

1 Before you read

Discussing the questions

1 While you read Task 1: Matching words Task 2: Completing the table Task 3: Answering the questions

3 After you read

Telling about some changes in your village

Home work

* Learn by heart the new words

* Rewrite the changes of life in your village

Thank you very much for your

attention!