Unit 8. The story of my village

elcome to our clas Welcome to our class Warm up: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 nit 8: The story of my villa A Reading Nguyen Tran Nhu Huynh Class: 10A6 Look at the picture and answer the questions (P.82) What are the people doing? - collecting the harvest How are they working? - working hard What helps produce good crops? - good farming method, weather, effort… I Vocabulary: - mud [mʌd] (n): bùn - brick [brik] (n): gạch - straw [strɔ:] (n): rơm - farming method ['fɑ:miη] ['meθəd](n): phương pháp canh tác - export ['ekspɔ:t] (n): xuất khẩu, hàng xuất ≠ import [‘impɔ:t] II While - reading: Task 1: Matching the words in column A with theirs definitions in column B A B make ends meet a making one’s life better in need of many things b have just enough money to pay for the things that you need bettering one’s life c crops to be sold, not for use by the people who grow it bumper crops d having to have many things that you not have cash crops e good crops Task 2: The reading passage tells us about many changes in the village Complete the following table Areas of change Before houses made of straw and mud radio and TV Now made of brick few families had a many families have a radio or a TV set radio or a TV set farming methods old new crops poor good / bumper travel on foot by motorbike Task 3:Answer the following questions: What was life like in the author’s village many years ago? Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage? How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school? What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young people brought home? What exactly did he tell his grandchildren? It was poor and simple (line number 1) Because they hoped that with an education of science and technology, their children could find a way of bettering their lives (line 5,6,7,8) They introduced new farming methods which resulted in bumper crops They also helped the villagers grow cash crops for export (Paragraph 2, line 2,3) He said their lives had changed a lot thanks to the knowledge their children had brought home (Paragraph 3, line 1,2) He told his grandchildren: “ Study harder so that you can even more for the village than your parents did (Paragraph 3, line 2, 3) III Post – reading: ... nit 8: The story of my villa A Reading Nguyen Tran Nhu Huynh Class: 10A6 Look at the picture and answer the questions (P.82) What are the people doing? - collecting the harvest How are they working?... shortage? How did the children help to improve the lifestyle in the village when they finished college or technical high school? What did an old farmer say about the effect of the knowledge the young... Task 3:Answer the following questions: What was life like in the author’s village many years ago? Why did the villagers want to send their children to school and college in spite of their shortage?