Unit 8 the story of my village

TÂN CHÂU TOWN, AN GIANG PROVINCE Unit 8: Reading Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004 Teacher : LE CONG DANH Warmer: GUESSING V I L L A G E VILLAGE UNIT 8: Lesson 1: Reading Unit 8: The story of my village WARMER Guessing PRE-READING Vocabulary WHILE-READING POST READING: Discussion HOMEWORK Unit 8: The story of my village I Vocabulary: be made of + N….được làm từ… Ex: In the past, my house was made of straw and mud mud (n):bùn straw (n): rơm Unit 8: The story of my village Technical high school: trường trung học kỹ thuật brick (n): gạch This girl is a beggar She has to live in poverty and shortage - shortage (n) of : Sự thiếu thốn Unit 8: The story of my village I- Pre- reading: Vocabulary: rơm straw (n): mud (n)muddy(a): bùn brick (n): Gạch Shortage (n) of : Sự thiếu thốn bumper crops # good crops (n): Mùa bội thu to better one’s life # to make one’s life better: Cải thiện sống His carelessness resulted resulted in : dẫn đến in a bad accident Unit 8: The story of my village Look at the picture and answer the following questions 1.How What are they the people in thecrop? picture doing? 4.2.What help produce good are working? 3. What doare youharvesting think of the crop? They Good farming methods, good weather They are working hard  It is a bumper (good) crop conditions,… Unit 8: The story of my village TASK 1: Match the words in A with their definitions in B A B 1- make ends meet -in need of many things 3- bettering one’s life 4- bumper crops 5- cash crops Answers: 1B 2D 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 need e) good crops 3A 4E 5C Question number 3: 3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school? Answer  They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops They also helped the villagers grow Key cash crops for export 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 Key Question number 5: 5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren? Answer  He told his grandchildren: “Study o harder so that you can d even more for the village than your parents did.” Key After After you read:you read Work in pairs Discuss the following questions What will you in the future to help people in your hometown? After you read Work in pairs Discuss the following questions What will you in the future to help people in your hometown? A: Khoa, what you want to in the future? B: I want to become a doctor A: If you are a doctor, what can you to help people in your home town? B: I will kill their diseases and keep them healthy What about you? A: I want to be an architect I will build lots of flats for local people to live in Home work * Learn by heart the new words * Rewrite the changes of life in the village Goodbye! Have a nice day Tan Chau High School- build - 2004 Classrooms – be well-equipped- up to now Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004 Tan Chau supermarket – being built now Tan Chau market – build- 1997 Tan Chau bus & coach station – upgradea few years ago The road fromTan Chau to Chau Doc – widen & upraise - a year ago Farmers – work- machines- nowadays [...]... The story of my village TASK 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 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. .. way of bettering their lives Key Question number 3: 3- How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school? Answer  They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops They also helped the villagers grow Key cash crops for export Question number 4: 4- What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young... the text carefully then complete the following table: Areas of change In the past At the present Houses made of straw 1 and mud made of2 bricks Radio & TV Few families had a Many families have 3 4 radios and TV set radio or a TV set old methods, 5 by buffalo machine/ 6 new methods Crops 7 poor/ enough to eat bumper/ 8 more to sell Travel 9 bikes on foot/by 10 by motorbikes Farming methods Unit 8: The. .. knowledge the young people brought home? 5- What exactly did he tell his grandchildren? 1- Question number 1: 1- What was life like in the author’s village many years ago? Answer  It was poor and simple 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... He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home Key Question number 5: 5- What exactly did the old farmer tell his grandchildren? Answer  He told his grandchildren: “Study o harder so that you can d even more for the village than your parents did.” Key After After you read:you read Work in pairs Discuss the following questions What will you do in the future... read Work in pairs Discuss the following questions What will you do in the future to help people in your hometown? A: Khoa, what do you want to do in the future? B: I want to become a doctor A: If you are a doctor, what can you do to help people in your home town? B: I will kill their diseases and keep them healthy What about you? A: I want to be an architect I will build lots of flats for local people... people to live in Home work * Learn by heart the new words * Rewrite the changes of life in the village Goodbye! Have a nice day Tan Chau High School- build - 2004 Classrooms – be well-equipped- up to now Tan Chau Embankment – build- 2004 Tan Chau supermarket – being built now Tan Chau market – build- 1997 Tan Chau bus & coach station – upgradea few years ago The road fromTan Chau to Chau Doc – widen ... L A G E VILLAGE UNIT 8: Lesson 1: Reading Unit 8: The story of my village WARMER Guessing PRE-READING Vocabulary WHILE-READING POST READING: Discussion HOMEWORK Unit 8: The story of my village. .. think of the crop? They Good farming methods, good weather They are working hard  It is a bumper (good) crop conditions,… Unit 8: The story of my village TASK 1: Match the words in A with their... Farming methods Unit 8: The story of my village TASK 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: What was life like in the author’s village many years ago? 2- Why did the villagers want to send their children