Unit8 - E11

1 2 My name’s Nghiem Thi Kim Quyen. I come from Trai Cau high School in Trai cau town. Trai Cau where I live in is a small town. The towners are farmers and workers. The farmers work on the farm and the workers work in Trai Cau Iron Mine. Many years ago, the town was very poor and the towners’lives were very simple. But now the town has changed, the towners’lives are better thanks to the new technical and advanced farming methods. 3 *Yours: - Where do you live? - Is it big or small? - What do the people there do? - Are the people’s lives there poor or rich? * My town - Trai Cau where I live in is a small town. - The towners are farmers and workers. - The farmers work on the farm and the workers work in Trai Cau Iron Mine. - Many years ago, the town was very poor and the towners’lives were very simple. - But now the town has changed, the towners’lives are better thanks to the new technical and advanced farming methods. 4 UNIT 8: Lesson 1: Reading 5 Lesson A-Reading I. Before you read II. While you read III. After you read 6 I. Before you read I. Vocabulary: mud (n) / mΛd/ straw (n) / strɔ:/ Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud be made of + N….ñöôïc laøm töø…. What’s this? 7 - brick (n) / brik/ This girl lives in the shortage of money and food so she has to be a begger. - shortage of (n) /∫ɔ:ti əv/ I. Before you read Người ăn xin I. Vocabulary: Is the crop good or bad? It’s a good crop / bumper crop. - bumper crop (n) / bΛmpə krop/ The wall is made of brick. The farmers grow vegetables, corn, rice to sold. The farmers grow cash crop to sold. - cash crop (n) /kæ∫ krop/ - What are the people in the picture doing? + They are harvesting their crop. - How are they working? + They are working very hard. - Why do they have to work hard? + They work hard to make their lives better. to better their lives. To better one’s life What help farmers have bumper crops? Farmers’hard working, weather and new farming methods - farming methods /fa:miŋ meθəd/ - better (v) / betə/ - To better one’s life 8 I. Before you read I. Vocabulary: - brick (n) / brik/ - shortage of (n) /∫ɔ:ti əv/ - bumper crop (n) / bΛmpə krop/ - mud (n) / mΛd/  - straw (n) / strɔ:/ - To better one’s life - better (v) / betə/ - cash crop (n) /kæ∫ krop/ - farming method /fa:miŋ meθəd/ muddy (a) / mΛdi/ 9 TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B A 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 do not have e) good crops Answers: 1b 2d 3a 4e 5c II. While you read 1. Listen 2. Read the passage and do the tasks 10 Areas of change In the past At the present Houses Radio & TV Farming methods Crops Travel on foot/by bikes by motorbikes TASK 2: Read the text carefully then complete the following table: old methods, by buffalo made of bricks Many families have radios and TV set machine/ new methods bumper/ more to sell made of straw and mud Few families had a radio or a TV set 2 3 5 4 6 8 1 10 9 poor/ enough to eat 7 [...]... 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... number 1: 1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago? Answer  It was poor and simple 12 Key Question number 2: 2- Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage? Answer  Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives 13 Key Question number 3: 3- How did... crops They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export 14 Key Question number 4: 4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home? Answer He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home 15 Key Question number 5: 5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren? Answer  He told his grandchildren:... people in your hometown? A: I want to become a teacher to help the children in my home town What about you? B: I want to become a doctor to kill their diseases and keep them healthy 20 Farmers – work- machines- nowadays 21 . 3 *Yours: - Where do you live? - Is it big or small? - What do the people there do? - Are the people’s lives there poor or rich? * My town - Trai Cau where I live in is a small town. - The towners. farming methods - farming methods /fa:miŋ meθəd/ - better (v) / betə/ - To better one’s life 8 I. Before you read I. Vocabulary: - brick (n) / brik/ - shortage of (n) /∫ɔ:ti əv/ - bumper crop. /∫ɔ:ti əv/ - bumper crop (n) / bΛmpə krop/ - mud (n) / mΛd/  - straw (n) / strɔ:/ - To better one’s life - better (v) / betə/ - cash crop (n) /kæ∫ krop/ - farming method /fa:miŋ meθəd/ muddy (a)