Thursday, December 4 th , 2008 WELCOME TO OUR CLASS TEACHER: NGUYEN MAI ANH 2. cottage 5. building 3. buffalo 6. ploughing machine 4. cyclo 1. motorcycle 7. small road 8. high-way Match these pictures with the suitable word or phrase a b c d hg fe b - 5. building a - 2. cottage e - 3. buffalo c - 6. ploughing machine g - 4. cyclo 1, Motorcycle h - 7. small road f - 8. high-way Match these pictures with the suitable word or phrase d - 1. motorcycle building cottage buffalo ploughing machine cyclo motorcycle small road high-way The past The present UNIT 8 Part A: Reading Before you read: Look at the picture and answer the 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? They are collecting (harvesting) rice from the field They are working hard The crop is good/ It is a bumper crop - Good farming methods - Farmers’ efforts - Using farming machine - Good weather… * Pre-teaching vocabulary: Field (n) [fi:ld] The farmer work in the field. Straw (n) [str :]ɔ Mud (n) [m d]ʌ wet, soft soil In the past, most houses were made of mud and straw. Brick house (n) Shortage (n) ['∫ :tid ]ɔ ʒ lack of something Technical high school (n) trêng trung häc kü thuËt d¹y nghÒ Farming methods (n) ['meθəd] ph¬ng ph¸p canh t¸c Thanks to (pre.) owing to, because of While you read: You are going to read a passage about life changes in the village. You read it and do the following tasks. 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 that 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 Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B kiÕm ®ñ sèng thiÕu thèn nhiÒu thø c¶i thiÖn cuéc sèng vô mïa béi thu c©y th¬ng phÈm Task 2: Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many The reading passage tells us about many changes in the village. Complete the following table. changes in the village. Complete the following table. Areas of changes Before Now Houses Radio and TV Farming methods Crops Travel Made of straw and mud Few families had a radio or a TV set Made of bricks Many houses have, they can listen to the news on the radio or watch TV for entertainment Old New Good/ bumper Motorbike Poor (Maybe) On foot . have many things that you do not have e. good crops Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B kiÕm ®ñ sèng thi u thèn nhiÒu thø c¶i thi n cuéc. 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 that you need c. crops. Shortage (n) ['∫ :tid ]ɔ ʒ lack of something Technical high school (n) trêng trung häc kü thuËt d¹y nghÒ Farming methods (n) ['meθəd] ph¬ng ph¸p canh t¸c Thanks to (pre.) owing to, because