Unit 8. The story of my village

What was the 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 shortage.. How did the children

questions.

1 What are the people in the

picture doing?

2 How are they working?

3 How is the crop?

4 What makes a good crop?

1 What are the people in the picture doing?

- They are collecting rice

from the field.

2 How are they working?

- They are working very

hard.

3 How is the crop?

- It’s a good crop/ bumper crop

4 What makes a good crop?

- Good weather

- Good farming methods

- Farmers’ efforts

- ……….

Eg: This is a muddy road

Mud (n) -> Muddy (a )

Eg: This cottage is made of mud and

straw

(n)

Eg: This house is made of brick (n)

Eg: This man has to live in poverty and shortage. (n)

Technical high school (n)

- Be made in + N (places)

by + N (people)

Task 1: Pair work

The words in A appear the reading passage

Match them with their

Reading-Task 1: Pair work (p.83)

The words in A appear 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

B

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

Task 1: Pair work

Work in group and complete the following

table.

Areas of

Houses Made of straw

Areas of change Before Now

Houses Made of straw

and mud Made of brick

Radio and TV Few families had

Poor Good/ bumper

Travel On foot/ by bike By Motorbike

Areas of change Before Now

Areas of change Before

Reading-Task 3: Pair work (p.84)

Ask and answer the following questions

Ask and answer the questions

1 What was the 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 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 brought home?

5 What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

1 What was life like in the author’s

village many years ago?

-> It was poor and simple

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 better 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 grow cash crop.

4 What did an old farmer say about the effect

of the knowledge the young brought home?

-> He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home

5 What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

He told to his grandchildren: “Study harder so that you can do even more for the village than your parents!”

He told his grandchildren to study harder

so that they could do even more for the

village than their parents.

“What will you do in the future to help people in your home town?”

Use the dialogue as

example:

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

B: I want to become a doctor.

A: If you are a doctor, what can you do

to help people in your home town?

B: I will cure their diseases and keep

them healthy What about you, Huong?

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

and the cues below:

school, new flats for local people

- Doctor/ Cure people’s health

- Teacher/ Teach the children

- Scientist/ Invent new modern

technologies

- ……

What will you do in the future to help people in

your home town?

- Learn by heart the new words.

- Rewrite the changes of life in the author’s village.