Bài 8 - Reading

Areas of changes Before Now houses radio and TV farming methods travel made of straw and few families had radios or TV sets many families have radios or TV sets poor good / bumper cr

WARMLY WELCOME TO OUR

ENGLISH CLASS

DESIGNER: TRAN VAN SY

CLASS 10A2

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Look at the two pictures and find out as many differences between the two pictures as possible

Before Now

T2

Before Now

Before Now

T2

Before Now

Unit 8

Reading

Vocabulary

3 mud /mʌd/

2 straw /strɔ:/

Ex: Ten years ago, my house was made of straw and

mud, but now it is made of brick

4 brick /brik/

5 shortage of /'∫ɔ:tidʒ/

(v)

(n)

(n) (n)

1 make ends meet

(n)

not enough of something

Ex: He often works very hard all day, but he can’t

make ends meet.

rơm rạ bùn gạch kiếm đủ sống

sự thiếu hụt

Vocabulary

cây trồng thương phẩm

7 cash crop (n)

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

Task 2 The reading passage tell us about many changes in

the village Complete the following table.

Areas

of changes

Before Now

houses

radio and TV

farming methods

travel

made of straw and

few families had radios or TV sets

many families have radios or TV sets

poor good / bumper crops walking / bicycle motorbike

Task 3 Read the test again and 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 shortages?

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

school?

4 What did the old farmer say about the effect of the

knowledge the young people brought home?

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

ago?

It was poor and simple

Task 3 Read the test again and answer the following questions

2 Why did the villagers want to send their children to school

and college in spite of their shortages?

Because they hoped that with an education of science

and technology, their children could find a 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?

When they came back from college or technical high

school, they would introduced new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops They also helped the villagers

grow cash crops for export

Task 3 Read the test again and answer the following

questions

4 What did the old farmer say about the effect of the

knowledge the young people brought home?

He said that their lives had changed a lot thanks to the

5 What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren?

He told his grandchildren, “Study harder so that you

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

Task 3 Read the test again and answer the following

questions

Task 4 Fill each blank in the summary of the story with

a suitable word or a phrase from the box below.

……… their children to schools Today, the lifestyle in the village

straw and mud

poor

farming methods make ends meet

bumper send

1 Read the text carefully and translate it into Vietnamese.

2 Write a paragraph about 100 words to answer this question

“What will you do to build our city richer and richer?”

3 Prepare for Listening lesson

5 Homework