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WARM-UP

GAME KIM’S GAME

What do you see in the following pictures?

Name all of them in 1 minute

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Unit 8 THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE

I PRE-READING

Look at the picture and answer the questions

1 What are the people in the picture doing?

2 How are they working?

3 What do you think of the crop?

4 What helps produce good crops?

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

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

1 Vocabulary

bùn gạch rơm

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

sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu.

các phương pháp canh tác

- result (in) [ri'zʌlt] (v):

2 Complete the following sentences using the words or phrases you’ve just learnt

1. In the past, our houses were made of ……….and ……

2 I would like to you to my students

3. The new……… were useful for their village

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

farming methods

mud straw

introduce

4 Your laziness will in failure.result

II WHILE-REA DING

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

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

thiếu thốn nhiều thứ.

cải thiện cuộc sống (của ai đó)

mùa màng bội thu.

cây trồng để thu hoa lợi.

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

4 bumper crops e good crops.

by the people who grow it

Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes

in the village Complete the following table.

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

houses made of straw and

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?

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

Pair work

 Task 3: Read the passage again, and find answers for the

following questions.

LUCKY FRUIT

LUCKY FRUIT

 What was life like in the author’s village

many years ago?

 It was poor and simple.

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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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III POST-READ ING

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

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE - LESSON 1: READING

Group work

Take care of children

Build more big and convenient houses

Build new stadiums for children

Widen the roads and plant more cash crops

1 Learn by heart the new

words and phrases from the passage.

2 Re-read the passage

carefully.

3 Prepare for the next lesson.

Designed by Nguyen Hoang Linh

2009 - 2010

According to the passage, what are the most important things to improve the lifestyle in the village ?

A The modern traffic.

B The new farming methods.

C The mass media.