Unit 8 the story of my village

Vocabulary: straw n: rơmmud nmuddya: brick n: Gạchbùn to better one’s lifebumper crops # good crops n:# to make one’s life better: Unit 8: The story of my village Mùa bội thu Cải thiện

Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004

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PROVINCE Unit 8: Reading

Teacher : LE CONG DANH

1 Warmer : GUESSING

VILLAGE

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UNIT 8:

Lesson 1: Reading

Unit 8: The story of my village

I Vocabulary:

mud (n):bùn

straw (n):

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

be made of + N ….được làm từ….

brick (n): gạch

Technical high school:

trường trung học kỹ thuật

This girl is a beggar

She has to live in poverty

and shortage

- shortage (n) of : Sự thiếu thốn

Unit 8: The story of my village

I- Pre- reading:

1 Vocabulary:

straw (n): rơmmud (n)muddy(a):

brick (n): Gạchbùn

to better one’s lifebumper crops # good crops (n):# to make one’s life better:

Unit 8: The story of my village

Mùa bội thu Cải thiện cuộc sống

Shortage (n) of : Sự thiếu thốn

His carelessness resulted in : dẫn đếnresulted in a bad accident.

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 (good) crop.

Unit 8: The story of my village

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 need

e) good crops

Unit 8: The story of my village

Travel on foot/by bikes by motorbikes

TASK 2 : Read the text carefully then complete the following table:

5

4 6 8 1

10 9

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:

Unit 8: The story of my village

Question number 2:

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 science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives.

Answer

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

Key

Question number 4:

4- What did an

old farmer say

about the effect

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?

A: Khoa, what do you want to do in the future?

A: If you are a doctor, what can you

do to help people in your home town?

B: I will kill their diseases and keep them healthy What about you?

A: I want to be an architect I will build lots of flats for local people to live in.

After you read

Work in pairs Discuss the following questions

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

B: I want to become a doctor

Home work

* Learn by heart the new words

* Rewrite the changes of life in the village

Goodbye! Have

a nice day

Tan Chau High School- build - 2004

Classrooms – be well-equipped- up to now

Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004

Tan Chau supermarket – being built now

Tan Chau market – build- 1997

Tan Chau bus & coach station – upgrade-

a few years ago

The road fromTan Chau to Chau Doc –widen & upraise - a year ago

Farmers – work- machines- nowadays