unit 8: Reading - English 10

GUESSING WORDS 1. Farmer 2. Village 3. Story Watch the video clip and tell the word it refers to UNIT 8: QUESTIONS: 1. What are they doing ? 2. How are they working ? 3. What do you think of the crop ? 4. What helps produce good crops ? good rice seed good farming methods farmers efforts/ working hard fertilizers pesticides/ herbicides farming machines (harvesting) thu hoùach (vuù muứa) (gioỏng) (phửụng phaựp canh taực) 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. having 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 kiếm đủ sống thiếu thốn nhiều thứ làm cho cuộc sống tốt hơn vụ mùa bội thu cây trồng thương phẩm P1 - L1,2: … The villagers had to work hard in the fields all day and could hardly make ends meet. … P1 – L2,3: … Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things. … P1 - L7,8: … Their children could find a way of bettering their lives. P2 – L3,4: … they also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export. … P2 - L2,3: … they introduced new farming methods, which resulted in bumper crops. … Task 2: Complete the following table Areas of changes Before Now houses made of straw and mud radio and TV farming methods crops travel (vieọc ủi laùi) motorbike made of brick few families had a radio or a TV set new good/ bumperpoor old many families have a radio or a TV set (laứm baống rụm, raù) (gaùch, ngoựi) Task 3 : Answer the questions: 1. What was life 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 ? LUCKY ANIMALS ! GROUP A GROUP B 246810121416 246 8 10121416 Discuss the question: How can people with an education help make the life of their community better? HOME WORK : • Learn vocabulary • Prepare speaking . phẩm P1 - L1,2: … The villagers had to work hard in the fields all day and could hardly make ends meet. … P1 – L2,3: … Their lives were simple and they were in need of many things. … P1 - L7 ,8:. ? LUCKY ANIMALS ! GROUP A GROUP B 246 8101 21416 246 8 101 21416 Discuss the question: How can people with an education help make the life of their community better? HOME WORK : • Learn vocabulary • Prepare. GUESSING WORDS 1. Farmer 2. Village 3. Story Watch the video clip and tell the word it refers to UNIT 8: QUESTIONS: 1. What are they doing ? 2. How are they working ? 3. What do you think of the