Unit 8 The story of my village reading

Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes in the village.. What was life like in the author’s village many years ago ?2.. How did the children help to improve the lifesty

TEACHER: NGUYỄN HỒNG THIỆN

English 10

We’re going to read about a story about the changes in a village

PERIOD 45

Look at the picture and answer the questions (P.82)

1 What are the people doing?

2 How are they working?

3 What helps produce good crops?

(collect, harvest,… ) (Hard, laboriously,… ) (good farming method, weather, effort…)

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

sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu

phương pháp canh tác

Ex: They introduce new way to produce this food

II WHILE-READING

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

5. cash crops e. good crops.

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.

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

by the people who grow it

ANSWER

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

in the village Complete the following table.

Areas of change Before Now

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 – PART A: READING

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

following questions.

1 2 3

6 5

4

 What was life like in the author’s village

many years ago?

 It was poor and simple (line number 1)

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 (line 5,6,7,8)

 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.

(Paragraph 2, line 2,3)

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.

(Paragraph 3, line 1,2)

III POST-READING

What will you do to help your village if you have chance?

If I have chance, I

will……

INTERVIEW

Take care of children

Build new stadiums for children

What will you do to

help your village if

you have chance?

UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE – PART A: READING

If I have chance, I

will……

A: What will you do to help your village if you have chance?

B: If I have chance, I will + V0

Suggestion: Take care of children ; build new schools, new hospitals ; widen streets; build more stadiums, …

1 Learn by heart the new words and phrases from the passage.

2 Re-read the passage carefully.

3 Prepare for the next lesson.