Unit 8. The story of my village

What helps produce good crops?. - good farming method, weather, effort…... crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it 4.. Areas of change Before Now houses made of straw a

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Unit 8: The story of my village

2016

A Reading

Nguyen Tran Nhu Huynh

Class: 10A6

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

1 What are the people doing? - collecting the harvest

2 How are they working? - working hard

3 What helps produce good crops?

- good farming method, weather, effort…

I Vocabulary:

- mud [mʌd] (n): bùn

- brick [brik] (n): gạch

- straw [strɔ:] (n): rơm

- farming method ['fɑ:miη] ['meθəd] (n): phương pháp

canh tác

- export [ 'ekspɔ:t] (n): sự xuất khẩu, hàng xuất khẩu

≠ import [ ‘impɔ:t]

II While - reading:

Task 1: Matching the words in column A with

theirs definitions in column B

A 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.

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 mud

radio and

TV

farming

methods

crops

travel by motorbike

made of brick

few families had a radio or a TV set many families have a radio or a TV set

poor good / bumper

on foot

Task 3:Answer the following questions:

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?

1 It was poor and simple (line number 1)

2 Because they hoped that with an

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

3 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)

4 He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.

(Paragraph 3, line 1,2)

5 He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder

so that you can do even more for the village than your parents did.

(Paragraph 3, line 2, 3)

III Post – reading: