Unit 8.A.reading

1. Warmer: Unit 8: A. Reading Look at the picture and answer the following questions 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 crop. Mud (n): Straw (n): Vocabulary: Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud be made of + N được làm từ technical high school Brick (n): This girl is a beggar. She has to live in poverty and shortage. - Shortage (n) of: Sự thiếu thốn The villagers live in poverty farmer The farmers areharvesting their crops The farmer is ploughing buffaloes field bridge river New words: mud(n) Change(v)become different Farming method Cash crop(n)crops for sell or export Brick(n) Shortage(n) Poverty(n) Straw(n) 1- make ends meet 1- make ends meet 5- cash crops 5- cash crops 4- bumper crops 4- bumper crops 3- bettering one’s life 3- bettering one’s life 2- in need of many things 2- in need of many things e. good crops e. good crops d. having to have many things that d. having to have many things that you need you need c. crops to be sold, not for c. crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it use by the people who grow it a. making one’s life better a. making one’s life better b. have just enough money to pay b. have just enough money to pay for the things you need for the things you need Task1: Match the world in A with their definitions in B A B Task 2: Match the world in A with their definitions in B Areas of change In the past At the present Houses Radio &TV Farming methods Crops Travel old methods, old methods, by buffalo by buffalo made of straw made of straw and mud and mud Few families had a Few families had a radio or a TV set radio or a TV set Poor/ enough to eat Poor/ enough to eat on foot/by bikes on foot/by bikes Made of bricks Made of bricks Many families have Many families have radios and TV set radios and TV set Machine/ Machine/ new methods new methods Bumper/ Bumper/ more to sell more to sell By motorbikes By motorbikes . by buffalo by buffalo made of straw made of straw and mud and mud Few families had a Few families had a radio or a TV set radio or a TV set Poor/ enough to eat Poor/ enough to eat on foot/by. Many peasants find it difficult to make ends meet make ends meet . . C D A - Learn by heart new word - Learn by heart new word - Read the text again and translate - Read the text again and. translate the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese the 1st paragraph into Vietnamese - Do the reading in workbook - Do the reading in workbook - Prepare for the Speaking lesson - Prepare for the Speaking