reading unit 8

 mud n: bùn - muddy adj  bumper crop n ['bʌmpə] mùa bội thu  farming methodsn: các phương pháp canh tác  better v: cải thiện Listen to the tape Unit 8: The story of my village His c

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LESSON

Teacher : Nguyen Hoang Linh

1 Warmer : GUESSING

VILLAGE

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UNIT 8

Lesson 1: Reading

5 HOMEWORK

I Vocabulary

mud (n)

straw (n)

be made of + N ….được làm từ….

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

Unit 8: The story of my village

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

Copy down the new words

 make ends meet (v) : kiếm đủ sống.

 mud (n): bùn - muddy (adj)

 bumper crop (n) ['bʌmpə] mùa bội thu

 farming methods(n): các phương pháp canh tác

 better (v): cải thiện

Listen to the tape

Unit 8: The story of my village

His carelessness resulted in a bad accident.

They want to better the living condition

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

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Unit 8: The story of my village

The villagers live in poverty

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The farmers are harvesting their crops

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The farmer is ploughing

buffaloes

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bridge

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

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poor/ enough to eat7

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:

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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

Key

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

Answer

Question number 4:

4- What did an

old farmer say

about the effect

had brought home.

Post Reading: Discussion

What will you do to help your village when

you have the chance?

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Pay attention to taking care of children

Build more big and convenient houses

Build a new stadium for children

Widen the roads and plant more cash crops

4 POST-READING Choose the best answer

for the following sentences:

1 Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet.

2 Everything has changed since he returned.

3 They apply new farming methods to get bumper crops

A Get plenty of food B Better their lives

C Earn enough money for living D Apply new farming method

A Become old B Become sick

C Become better D Become different

A Good crops B Cash crops

C Bad crops D Crops for selling

Unit 8: The story of my village

• Learn by heart new word

• Read the text again and translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese

• Do the reading in workbook

• Prepare for the Speaking lesson

TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B

1- make end meet

2-in need of many

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

The answers of the questions

1- It was poor and simple.

2-Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find

a way of bettering their lives.

• 3 They introduced new farming methods They introduced new farming methods

which resulted in bumper crops They also

helped the villagers grow cash crops for export 4- He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to

the knowledge their children had brought home 5- He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder so

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

3 While-reading

• Task 1 : Matching

• Task 2 : Complete the table

• Task 3 : Answer the questions

• Many years ago, my village was very poor The villager had to work hard in the field all day and could hardly make ends meet

Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things Many people had to live in houses made of straw and mud, and a few families had a radio or a TV set.

• However, in spite of the shortages, the villagers

managed to send their children to school and college

• They hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way

• The children have met their parents’ wishes When they came back from college or technical high school, they introduced

new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops

• They also helped the villagers grow cash crop for export Soon, the lifestyle of my village

changed

• Today, people live in brick houses In the evening, they can listen to the news on the radio or watch TV for entertainment Sometimes they go to town on their motorbikes to do some shopping or to visit their friends.

• “ Our lives have changed a lot thanks to the knowledge our children brought home” said an old farmer, “and I

always tell my grandchildren to study harder so that they can do even more for the village than their parents did”

• Many years ago, my village was very poor The villager had to work hard in the field all day and could hardly make ends meet Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things

Many people had to live in houses made of

straw and mud, and a few families had a radio

or a TV set However, in spite of the

shortages, the villagers managed to send their

that with an education of science and

technology, their children could find a way of

bettering their lives.

• The children have met their parents’ wishes

When they came back from college or technical high school, they introduced new farming

methods, which resulted in bumper crops.

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