Unit 8- Reading

Rub out & remember To make ends meet :  :thiếu thốn nhiều thứ  Straw n:  : bùn  To better one’s life :  : trường trung học kĩ thuật Cải thiện cuộc sống của ai Technical high scho

Welcome to our class,10 A4 !

Warm-up: Look at the picture and guess the word

VILLAGE

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UNIT 8

I Before you read

* Look at the picture and answer the following

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?

* Suggested answer

2 They are working hard

3 It’s a bumper crop

4 Good farming methods , good weather,

using farming machines, farmers’ efforts…

* New words

Brick ( n ) : gạch technical high school

trường trung học kỹ thuật

New words

 To make ends meet :

 In need of many things :

 Straw (n) [strɔ:] :

 mud (n) [mʌd] :

 To better one’s life :

 Technical high school : ['teknikl] :

 Farming method (n): ['fɑ:miη 'meθəd]əd]

Bùn Cải thiện cuộc sống của ai đó

Trường trung học kĩ thuật

Phương pháp canh tác

Mang lại , tạo ra

Vụ mùa bội thu Cây trồng thương phẩm Gạch

Rub out & remember

 To make ends meet :

 :thiếu thốn nhiều thứ

 Straw (n):

 : bùn

 To better one’s life :

 : trường trung học kĩ thuật

Cải thiện cuộc sống của ai Technical high school

Phương pháp canh tác Mang lại , tạo ra

Bumper crop

Cây trồng thương phẩm

brick

The house is made of straw

The farmers are

harvesting

II While you read

Now read the passage about life

changes in the country Then do the tasks below

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

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 do not have

e) good crops

2 TASK 2 : The reading passage tell us about many

changes in the village Complete the following table

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 shortages?

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 people brought home?

5- What exactly did he tell his grandchildren?

3 TASK 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

( pair work )

Question number 1 :

1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago ?

Answer

Question number 2 :

2- Why did the villagers want to send their

children to school and college in spite of their shortages ?

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

Answer

Question number 3 :

3- How did the children help improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school?

3- They introduced new farming methods, which

Answer

Question number 4 :

4- What did an

old farmer say

about the effect

of the knowledge

the young people

brought home ?.

Answer 4- He said their lives had

changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home.

that you can do

even more for the

village than your

III After you read

Work in groups, discuss the question

What will you do to help Phu Yen town to be better? ( choose the suitable answers and add more if you have)

1 Study well

2 Narrow the roads

3 Widen the roads

4 Build more schools and hospitals

5 Stay at home and do nothing

6 Grow cash crops for export

………

……….

•Suggested answers

1 Study well

3 Widen the roads

4 Build more schools and hospitals

6 Grow cash crops for export

HOMEWORK :

words

translate it into Vietnamese

(work book)

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